)is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is founding director of the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging and past chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing.  A member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Estes has served on the Executive Committee of the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program and mentored fellows at the UCB-UCSF campus since the program’s inception. Her research focuses on Social Security, Medicare, health reform and long term care policy including elder women’s economic and health security. She is past President of three national organizations: The Gerontological Society of America, the American Society on Aging, and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. Now Board Chair of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and its Foundation, Estes’ publications include 8 original books and 15 co-edited volumes on social policy and aging and health policy.  Social Insurance & Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements (2009) is her latest book.