Dr. Carl C. Bell is President and CEO, of the Community Mental Health Council and Foundation, Inc. a $21 million comprehensive community mental health center in Chicago that employs 450 geniuses. He is also the Principle Investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health R-01 Grant - Using CHAMP to Prevent Youth HIV Risk in a South African Township. Dr. Bell is the Director of Public and Community Psychiatry and a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health and Co-Director – UIC Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago. During his 35-year career, Bell has published more than 350 articles and books on mental health. He authored The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness. He has an expert guest Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and the Today Show. He has also lectured internationally on various topics. Dr. Bell graduated from University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, in 1967 and earned his MD from Meharry College in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1974 at the Illinois State psychiatric Institute in Chicago, where he worked with children, adolescents and adults.