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William A. Galston is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program and the College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. He has previously been the Saul Stern Professor at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. From 1993 until 1995, Mr. Galston was deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, where he had principal responsibility for education policy, among other assignments. He was issues director for Walter Mondale’s presidential campaign, as a senior adviser to Al Gore’s 1988 run for the Democratic presidential nomination, and again as a senior adviser to Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign (1999-2000). Mr. Galston is the author of eight books in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics, including, most recently, Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), and Public Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He is a member of the editorial board of Democracy, and in 2004, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Galston serves on the boards of numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for Democracy, the Council for Excellence in Government, and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). Dr. Geller has spent his career focusing on the delivery of psychiatric care and treatment to those with the greatest needs and fewest resources. He has done this through his current position as director of public-sector psychiatry at UMMS; as a consultant to many U.S. states and the U.S. Department of Justice; through a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship; and through work in the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Geller is the author of more than ninety articles in refereed journals and of scores of book reviews and opinion pieces. He is the coauthor of Women of the Asylum (Doubleday, 1994).

Howard H. Goldman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the author or coauthor of 275 publications in the professional literature. Dr. Goldman is the editor of Psychiatric Services, and he is on the editorial boards of several other journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. He was the senior scientific editor of the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health from 1997 to 1999, for which he was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion. During 2002 and 2003, Dr. Goldman was a consultant to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. In 1996, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, and in 2002, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Goldman’s expertise is in evaluating mental health services and financing programs and policies. He is the director of the Network on Mental Health Policy Research, which sponsors studies on mental health financing. He was also principal investigator of the study team conducting the evaluation of the implementation and impact of mental health and substance abuse parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

Sally Satel, M.D., is a resident scholar at AEI. She is also the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She has served on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and in summer 2003, she was a member of the Fowler Commission that investigated sexual misconduct at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Dr. Satel has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and addiction medicine and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in the New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Satel is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001), coauthor of One Nation Under Therapy (with Christina Hoff Sommers; St. Martin’s Press, 2005), and editor of When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors (forthcoming from the AEI Press).

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist and executive director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, which supports research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is also codirector of the Stanley Brain Research Laboratory, a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, and founder and board member of the Treatment Advocacy Center. Dr. Torrey practiced general medicine in Ethiopia for two years as a Peace Corps physician, in the South Bronx in an OEO Health Center, and in Alaska in the Indian Health Service. From 1970 to 1975, he was special assistant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Torrey is the author of twenty books and over three hundred papers. His books include Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans and Disease (with Robert H. Yolken; Rutgers University Press, 2005), Surviving Prostate Cancer (Yale University Press, 2006), and, most recently, The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens (W. W. Norton, 2008). Dr. Torrey has appeared on national television and has written for many newspapers. He has received two Commendation Medals from the U.S. Public Health Service, a 1984 Special Families Award from NAMI, a 1991 National Caring Award, and, in 1999, research awards from the International Congress on Schizophrenia and NARSAD.

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