National Advisory Council

Hilda Anyanwu
Advocate

Anne Bass
Advocate

Marilyn Benoit, M.D.
Past President, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Deeda Blair
Director Emeritus, Albert and Mary Laskar Foundation

Robert Boorstin
Director of Corporate and Policy Communications, Google

Terry Branstad
Governor of Iowa

Robert Chase
Past President, National Education Association

Nancy Domenici
Advocate

Patty Duke
Actress and Author

Joe English, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers

Arlene Farrand-Borgerson
Executive Director, The Carmel Hill Fund

Stephen Graham
Advocate

Michael F. Hogan, Ph.D.
Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health

William H. Janes
Former Director, Florida Office of Drug Control

Mitchell Kuflik
Partner, Brahman Capital Corporation

Constance Lieber
President, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression

Stephen Lieber
Chairman, Saxon Woods Advisors, LLC

James McDonough
Former Director, Florida Department of Corrections

Suzanne Murphy
1930-2009
Advocate

Sylvia Nasar
John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism, Columbia University

Mark Olfson, MD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University

Father Val J. Peter, J.C.D., S.T.D.
Executive Director Emeritus, Girls and Boys Town

Robert Postlethwait
Member, President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Kenneth Purdy
Former Chairman, Prime Tanning

Rona Purdy
Past President, National Alliance on Mental Illness

Jeanne Robertson
Advocate

Joy Ruane
1941-2006
Advocate

William J. Ruane
1925-2005
Founder, Columbia University TeenScreen Program

David Shaffer, F.R.C.P., F.R.C., Psych.
Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry,
College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

Michael Silverberg, J.D.
Senior Litigation Partner, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon

Sharon Smith
Advocate

Robert Sobel
Partner, Brahman Capital Corporation

Michael Usdan
Senior Fellow, Institute for Educational Leadership

Mary Wallace
Advocate