Dr. Shorter is most proud of joining the Peace Corps and becoming Chief of Pediatrics at Zomba Central Hospital in Zomba, Malawi, Africa for two long years. Earlier, she served as Director of Medical Services, Medical Products Div. of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., as a Research Physician in the Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology, responsible for R&D of medical and pharmacological products and testing of new drugs on humans. Previously, she was a Research Physician in the Dept. of Clinical Pharmacology of Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., NJ, then this company's Asst. Dir. of Professional Services, responsible for Phase III and IV trials for products such as Dalmane (sedative-hypnotic), Bumex ( loop diuretic), Rimadyl (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory), and Cipralan (anti-arrhythmic). Dr. Shorter went on to become Assoc. Dir. of Clinical Research at Abbott Laboratories, IL where she designed and initiated Phase III and IV studies with 20 investigators for Hypertension in the Geriatric Population. She also became a specialist in Child Development and became the Dir. of Children's Evaluation Rehabilitation Clinic in Bronx, NY, while simultaneously serving as an Instructor in Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is the daughter of the famous Dr. Jasper Jeffries, Ph.D., one of two African American physicists who worked on the "Manhattan Project".