Professor Flores obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at U.C. Berkeley in 1982. Her postdoctoral work focused on health psychology and the treatment of addictions. Her recent research and publications address the prevalence of intimate partner violence among Mexican nationals and Mexicans in the United States, the relationship between depression and IPV in rural Mexican women, and caregiving patterns of spouses and adult children of elderly with dementia. Professor Flores is part of several collaborative, binational research teams. A Fulbright fellow (Panama 1994), she has taught at the Universidad Santa Maria la Antigua, in Panama City; she has also guest lectured and supervised doctoral and master thesis students at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario Sur and the Universidad de Costa Rica. Professor Flores joined the Chicana/o Studies faculty in 1989 and helped develop the health/mental health emphasis track in the major. She has taught graduate students from humanities and social sciences, undergraduates in Chicana/o Studies, Sociology and Psychology, and professional school students in Law, Psychology and Medicine. Doctor Flores is an international consultant and trainers in the areas of illness prevention, program development and cultural competency. Professor Flores has taught Summer Abroad programs in Argentina and co-taught QA Oaxaca program before becoming faculty director of QA in February of this year. She will be teaching SA in Costa Rica this summer. Professor Flores is the mother of two young adults and grandmother of two girls, aged 2.7 years and 4 months.