Mary G. F. Bitterman is President of The Bernard Osher Foundation, a 45-year-old philanthropic organization headquartered in San Francisco that supports higher education and the arts. The Foundation provides post-secondary scholarship funding to colleges and universities across the nation, with special attention to reentry students. It also benefits programs in integrative medicine in the United States and Sweden, including centers at the University of California, San Francisco; Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden; Northwestern University; Vanderbilt University; the University of Miami; the University of Washington;