SEATED: (left to right)
D. Barch, P. Areán, P. Wang, T. Insel, K. Jamison, R. Lewis-Fernández, G. Robinson
STANDING: (left to right)
J. Steinberg, M. J. Rotheram, I. Katz, H. Heimer, V. Trotter Betts, R. Carpenter, J.D. Sweatt,
R. Robinson Beale, G. Simon, C. Tamminga, C. Shatz, B.J. Casey, S. Hyman
NOT PICTURED: L. Greenman
Department Of Health And Human Services
National Institutes Of Health
National Institute Of Mental Health
National Advisory Mental Health Council
(Terms end 9/30 of designated year)
Chairperson
Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
Director
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD
Executive Secretary
Jane Steinberg, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Extramural Activities
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD
Members
- Patricia A. Areán, Ph.D. (16)
- Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA - Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D. (16)
- Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychology, Psychiatry and Radiology
Washington University
Editor-in-Chief
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
Director, Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Health
St. Louis, MO - Virginia Trotter Betts, M.S.N, J.D. (14)
- Professor of Nursing and Public Policy
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing
Memphis, TN - Randall L. Carpenter, M.D. (15)
- Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Seaside Therapeutics
Cambridge, MA - BJ Casey, Ph.D. (16)
- Sackler Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY - Lisa Greenman, J.D. (15)
- Staff Attorney
Federal Public Defender Organization
District of Maryland
Washington, DC - Hakon Heimer, M.S. (16)
- Founding Editor
Schizophrenia Research Forum
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
Providence, RI - Steven E. Hyman, M.D. (15)
- Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA - Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D. (13)
- The Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
- Roberto Lewis-Fernández, M.D. (13)
- Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University
Director of NYS Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and Hispanic Treatment Program
NY State Psychiatric Institute NYSPI
New York, NY - Gene E. Robinson, Ph.D. (14)
- Director, Institute for Genomic Biology
Swanlund Chair
Center for Advanced Study Professor in Entomology And Neuroscience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL - Rhonda Robinson Beale, M.D. (13)
- Chief Medical Officer
OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions
Glendale, CA - Mary Jane Rotheram, Ph.D. (16)
- Bat-Yaacov Professor of Child Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences
Director, Global Center for Children and Families
Director, Center for HIV Identification Prevention And Treatment Services (CHIPTS)
Semel Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA - Carla Shatz, Ph.D. (13)
- Director, Bio-X
Professor of Biology and Neurology
Stanford University
James H. Clark Center
Stanford, CA - Gregory E. Simon, M.P.H., M.D. (14)
- Senior Scientific Investigator
Center for Health Studies/Behavioral Health Service
Group Health Cooperative
Seattle, WA - J. David Sweatt, Ph.D. (16)
- Professor
Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair
Department of Neurobiology
Director, McKnight Brain Institute
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Carol A. Tamminga, M.D. (15)
- Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Ex Officio Members
- Office of the Secretary, DHHS
- Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC - National Institutes of Health
- Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD - Veterans Affairs
- Ira Katz, M.D., Ph.D.
Office of Mental Health Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC
Liaison Representative
Paolo del Vecchio, M.S.W.
Director
Center for Mental Health Services
Rockville, MD
More Information about the NAMHC
Future Council Meetings
- May 30, 2013
Registration - September 19, 2013
- January 23, 2014
- May 22, 2014
- September 18, 2014
- February 6, 2015
- May 29, 2015
- September 11, 2015




