Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in the W.H. Brady Program in Culture and Freedom. 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 the summer of 2003 she was a member of the Fowler Commission that investigated sexual misconduct at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Satel earned a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.S. from the University of Chicago and an M.D. from Brown University. After completing her residency in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry from 1988-1993. From 1993-1994 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, and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, House and Senate Veteran's 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, New Republic, Commentary, Atlantic Monthly, 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). She is coauthor, with Christina Hoff Sommers, of One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005) and editor of When Altruism Isn't Enough - The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors (AEI Press, forthcoming in fall 2008).

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