Marcia L. Meldrum is a researcher in the UCLA Department of History, with special expertise in using oral history and other qualitative methods to study health services, as well as medical history. She is the Co-Director of the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library in the Geffen School of Medicine, considered to be one of the leading archival and oral history collections in contemporary biomedicine in the country. She is the lead researcher on an NIMH-funded qualitative study of children with chronic pain and a collaborating investigator on the Oral History of Human Genetics, based at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. At the Center, Meldrum is collaborating on oral history and archival projects on the history of mental health services in LA County, the history of neuropsychopharmacology, and the problem of evidence-based evaluation of pharmaceuticals in a market economy. Her particular research interest is processes through which social, cultural, and economic factors shape diagnostic and therapeutic practices.