Professor Manuel Cifuentes practiced as a rural physician in Chilean Patagonia and earned a master's degree in public health, before specializing and working in adult psychiatry. He completed a doctoral degree in epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Cifuentes has worked at Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety as Research Scientist and at the University of Massachusetts as a graduate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology. Currently, he is part of the School of Health Sciences’ public health program, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses and assisting Regis College researchers in research methodology and biostatistics.