CARL C. BELL, M.D.

Carl C. Bell, M.D., F.A.P.A., F.A.C.P.
President and CEO

For over 35 years, Dr. Bell has practiced psychiatry. As an internationally recognized lecturer and author, he has given numerous presentations on mental wellness, violence prevention, and traumatic stress caused by violence. In 2007, he was appointed to the National Academy of Science’s, Institute of Medicine, Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the Board on Health Care Services.  These two Boards sponsored the Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults:  Research Advances and Promising Interventions that he served on for nearly three years.  That work continued until the publication of the report in 2009.  The report has driven much of the prevention legislation in the nation’s Health Care Reform laws and continues to do so. He is the author of The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness and co-author of Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents. Dr. Bell is also the Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois School of Medicine.

Dr. Bell has published over 450 articles on mental health issues. His articles on mental health and violence prevention have appeared in The National Medical Association and Psychiatric Services Journal. He has addressed mental wellness and violence prevention issues on the Today Show, Nightline, 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning and Frontline; and his campaign to prevent Black-on-Black violence has been featured in several publications including Ebony, Jet, Essence, Emerge, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine and People Magazine.
 
In recognition of his efforts to reduce violence, he became the first recipient of the American Psychiatric Foundation's Minority Service Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association's Presidential Award.

HONORS AND AWARDS (Partial List)

• Appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee on Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, June 25, 2010 to March 31, 2012.

• Appointed to the National Institute of Mental Health National Mental Health Advisory Council by Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt, January 2008 ending September 30, 2011.

• 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.

• Appointed to the National Academy of Science’s, Institute of Medicine, Board on Children, Youth, and Families and the Board on Health Care Services’ Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults:  Research Advances and Promising Interventions, May 14, 2007.

• Listed in Who's Who Among Black Americans, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2008.