Programs
Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness
(2009)
Moderator
Frank Sesno, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Panelists

Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., Professor, Bioethics; Chair, Department of Medical Ethics; Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania.

Pete Earley, former Washington Post reporter; author, Crazy:
A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness

Frederick Frese, Ph.D., Psychologist and coordinator, Summit County Recovery Project; former Director of Psychology, Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital

Avel Gordly, former State Senator, Oregon, District 23; founder of the African American Mental Health Commission

Eric Kandel, M.D., University Professor, Columbia University
and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Judge Steven Leifman, Associate Administrative Judge, Miami-Dade County Court, Criminal Division

Estelle Richman, Secretary of Public Welfare, Pennsylvania

Elyn R. Saks, Associate Dean, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law; author, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Thomas Simpatico, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Public Psychiatry, University of Vermont, College of Medicine

Tracey Skale M.D., Medical Director, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

Lauren Spiro, Director of Public Policy, National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations

Susan Stefan, Staff attorney, Center for Public Representation

Sam Tsemberis, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of Pathways to Housing; Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center