Michael Resnick, a sociologist, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Research for the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He is also Director of the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center. He was lead author on the first paper published from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), and is particularly interested in the identification of the factors, experiences and events in the lives of young people that protect against involvement in behaviors that are dangerous to adolescents and to others.