othing is more central to the mission of Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center than its emphasis on ministering to the whole person. Loma Linda's motto--"To Make Man Whole"--is incorporated into the very name of the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness, which serves both Loma Linda University and the Medical Center.

As founding director and director emeritus of the Wholeness Center, Wilber Alexander, Ph.D., is committed to whole-person ministry--the concept that human beings are not compartmentalized bodies, minds, and spirits, but that all these facets of humanity are an integrated whole.

Dr. Alexander took his undergraduate degree at the College of Medical Evangelists (now Loma Linda University) in 1950. He later earned master's degrees at Andrews University and at Edinburgh University; he then completed his doctorate at Michigan State University in 1962.

After his pastoral internship in the early 1950s, he returned to Loma Linda as an associate professor of practical theology between 1954 and 1963. For the next 10 years he served briefly as a professor and chair of the Religion Department at Andrews University, and then as professor of pastoral care and theology at the Andrews University Theological Seminary.

From 1973 to the present, Dr. Alexander has served in a variety of positions at Loma Linda University, including professor of clinical ministry and theology, director of the chaplain's department, dean of the School of Religion, special assistant to the president for Spiritual Life and Wholeness, and founding director of the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness.