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Carl C. Bell, M.D., is
Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research; Director of
Public and Community Psychiatry; Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry and Public Health; Department of Psychiatry, College
of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also
the President & C.E.O., Community Mental Health Council & Foundation, Inc. a multi-million dollar
comprehensive community mental health center located on Chicago's Southside. He is also
the Director of Public and Community Psychiatry and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
and Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Co-Director - UIC Interdisciplinary
Violence Prevention Research Center , University of Illinois at Chicago; Commentator for "Prevention in Action" in Clinical
Psychiatry News; and Producer of Eight Pieces of Brocade - a 45 minute chi kung exercise DVD.
In addition, Dr. Bell is a member of the National Research Council’s National Academies of Science
Committee on Law and Justice; a member of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Mental Health Advisory Council; an International Fellow - Institute of Philosophy,
Diversity, and Mental Health, Center for Ethnicity and Health, Faculty of Health, University
of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, 2007 - 2008, a member of the Chicago Board of Health;
and a Regent of the American College of Psychiatrists Board of Regents. 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 35+ years, Dr. Bell has published
over 400 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.
Currently, Dr. Bell is the Co-Director of the
Community Advisory Board "Center for the Study of Schools as a Context for Urban Children’s Mental
Health," - Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago - (Principle Investigator
Mark Atkins, Ph.D; Co-Investigator
"Race-Based Trauma Stress Scale Validity Studies," - Teachers College, Columbia University,
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, New York, NY & Community Mental Health Council, Inc.,
Chicago IL - (Principle Investigator Robert T. Carter, Ph.D.); External Advisory Committee member –
Advanced Center for Intervention and Services Research: Late-Life Mood Disorders Research Network
Development Core Center Grant – Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic – Pittsburgh, PA – (Principle
Investigator: Reynolds, Charles); Consultant - Advanced Practice Forensic Nursing Program," - School
of Nursing , University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL - (Principal Investigator: Barbara Simmons);
Co-Primary Mentor for Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble –Barriers to Research and Care in Depressed Black Youth –
Scientist Development Award for New Minority Faculty.
Formerly, Dr. Bell was a co-Principle Investigator
of the NIH Chicago African-American Youth Health Behavior Project and of the NIMH 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 was also the Principle
Investigator for the NIMH R - 01 "Using CHAMP to Prevent Youth HIV Risk in a South African Township"
- Community Mental Health Council, Inc., Chicago, IL.
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 22 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 Research Council, National Academy of Science's
Committee on Law & Justice, 2007 to 2013
-
Member,
National Institute of Mental Health, National Mental Health
Advisory Council, 2008 to 2011.
-
National
Research Council & Institute of Medicine.
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and
Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities (2009)
- Member
of Rosalyn Carter Mental Health Task Force since 2001.
- 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 35
years, Dr. Bell has published over 400 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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