The Great Debate took place March 9, 2001 in Monterey, California at the APS Annual Meeting
The case for the resolution was advanced by two of the leading researchers in biobehavioral medicine: Redford B. Williams, MD, from the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and Neil Schneiderman, PhD, from the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL.
The case against the resolution was presented by two former Editors-in-Chief of New England Journal of Medicine: Arnold Relman, MD, was a Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine at Harvard University Medical School, and Marcia Angell, MD, was a Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University Medical School.