Allan Hugh Cole Jr. is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also, by courtesy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Dell Medical School at UT. Cole serves on the Board of Directors at Power for Parkinson's, moderates PD Wise, serves as a community advocate for ParkinsonsDisease.net, and is a guest contributor for the Michael J. Fox Foundation's Team Fox Blog. He is the author or editor of ten books, and he has written and published many chapters, articles, and reviews in volumes and journals related to social work, counseling, spirituality, and the psychology of religion. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Spirituality and Religion in Social Work: Social Thought.