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Carl C.
Bell, M.D., is President & C.E.O., Community Mental Health
Council & Foundation, Inc. He is also the Director of Public
and Community Psychiatry and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
and Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Bell
is a co-Principle Investigator of the Chicago African-American
Youth Health Behavior Project and of the Informed Consent in
Urban AIDS and Mental Health Research Project, and a collaborator
of the Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project
(CHAMP) at the University of Illinois. He is a member and Former
Chairman of the National Medical Association's Section on Psychiatry;
a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists; a Fellow
of the American Psychiatric Association, a Founding Member and
Past Board Chairman of the National Commission on Correctional
Health Care.
During 30
years, Dr. Bell has published over 200 articles on mental health.
He is editor of Psychiatric Perspectives on Violence: Understanding
Causes and Issues in Prevention and Treatment; author of Getting
Rid of Rats: Perspectives of a Black Community Psychiatrists;
co-author of Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents and chapters
on: "Black Psychiatry" in Mental Health and People
of Color; "Black-on-Black Homicide" in Mental Health
and Mental Illness Among Black Americans; "Isolated Sleep
Paralysis" & "Violence Exposure, Psychological
Distress and High Risk Behaviors Among Inner-City High School
Students" in Anxiety Disorders in African-Americans; "Is
psychoanalytic therapy relevant for public mental health programs"
in Controversial Issues in Mental Health; and "Prevention
of Black Homicide" in The State of Black America 1995.
Dr. Bell
was the E.Y. Williams Distinguished Senior Clinical Scholar
Award of the Section on Psychiatry of the National Medical Association
in 1992. He received the American Psychiatric Association President's
Commendation - Violence in 1997. He was appointed to the Violence
Against Women Advisory Council by Janet Reno the Attorney General
Department of Justice and Donna Shalala Secretary Department
of Health and Human Services - 1995-2000, and was a participant
- White House's Strategy Session on Children, Violence, and
Responsibility. He was appointed to the working group for Dr.
Satcher's Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health - Culture,
Race, and Ethnicity and appointed to the Planning Board for
the Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence.
For information
on the Community Mental Health Council, please visit:
http://thecouncil-online.org/
PRESENT
POSITIONS
- President
& C.E.O., Community Mental Health Council & Foundation,
Inc. - a 16 million dollar/300 employee, Private, Not-for-profit
comprehensive community mental health center on Chicago's
Southside
- Director
of Public and Community Psychiatry
- Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Illinois
- Co-Investigator
of the Community Partnership to Prevent Urban
- Youth
HIV Risk, Columbia University School of Social Work, Social
Intervention Group, New York, NY
- Co-Principle
Investigator of the Chicago African-American Youth Health
Behavior Project
- Health
Research and Policy Center - University of Illinois
- Collaborator
of the Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent
- Mental
Health Project (CHAMP) University of Illinois - Department
of
Psychiatry
- Co-Principle
Investigator of the Informed Consent in Urban AIDS and
Mental Health Research Project, University of Illinois - Department
of Psychiatry
MEMBERSHIPS
(Partial List)
- Member,
National Medical Association. Former Chairman, Section on
Psychiatry.
- Member,
Black Psychiatrists of America. Former vice-president, former
newsletter editor.
- Fellow:
American College of Psychiatrists - 1998 & American Psychiatric
Association - 1985
- Founding
Member and Past Board Chairman, National Commission on
Correctional Health Care.
- Member
and Former Director, American Association of Community
Psychiatrists.
- American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - 1976; Board Examiner
since 1978.
BOOKS,
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, AND ARTICLES
During 30
years, Dr. Bell has published over 200 articles on mental
health. He is editor of Psychiatric Perspectives on Violence:
Understanding Causes and Issues in Prevention and Treatment;
author of Getting Rid of Rats: Perspectives of a Black Community
Psychiatrists; co-author of Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents
and chapters on: "Black Psychiatry" in Mental Health
and People of Color; "Black-on-Black Homicide" in
Mental Health and Mental Illness Among Black Americans; "Isolated
Sleep Paralysis" & "Violence Exposure, Psychological
Distress and High Risk Behaviors Among Inner-City High School
Students" in Anxiety Disorders in African-Americans; "Is
psychoanalytic therapy relevant for public mental health programs"
in Controversial Issues in Mental Health; and "Prevention
of Black Homicide" in The State of Black America 1995.
He's the subject of countless interviews in Ebony; Jet; Essence;
Emerge; New York Times; Chicago Tribune Magazine; People Magazine;
and Chicago Reporter. TV shows, such as "Nightline",
"CBS Sunday Morning", The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,
and the "Today" show have utilized his expert opinion.
He's also lectured internationally on various topics.
HONORS
AND AWARDS (Partial List)
- Listed
in Who's Who Among Black Americans
- American
Psychiatric Association President's Commendation -
Violence, May 1997
- Appointed
to the Violence Against Women Advisory Council by
Janet Reno the Attorney General Department of Justice and
Donna
Shalala Secretary Department of Health and Human Services
- 1995-2000.
- Participant
- White House's Strategy Session on Children,
Violence, and Responsibility with President Clinton and Vice
President Gore, May 1999
- Invited
to the White House Conference on Mental Health with President
Clinton and Vice President Gore, June 1999
- Appointed
to the Planning Boards for Dr. Satcher's Surgeon
General's Report on Mental Health - Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
and the Report on Youth Violence, Spring 2000.
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