CARL C. BELL, M.D.

President & C.E.O., Community Mental Health Council & Foundation, Inc.

Director, Public and Community Psychiatry, University of Illinois

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Illinois

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. 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 the past 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” and “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 in the White House’s Strategy Session on Children, Violence, and Responsibility. He was appointed to the working group for David Satcher’s Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health - Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, and was appointed to the Planning Board for the Surgeon General’s Report on Youth Violence.