Dr. Carl Bell

Dr. Carl C. Bell, M.D. is President & C.E.O. - Community Mental Health Council (CMHC) & Foundation, Inc. in Chicago. CMHC a large multi-million comprehensive community mental health center employing 390 social service geniuses. Dr. Bell is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Public Health, and Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) - University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). IJR is century old, multi-million dollar academic institute providing child & family research, training, & service, employing 257 academic faculty and support staff. Recently, he was a member of the IOM Committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. He serves on the National Mental Health Advisory Council of the National Institute of Mental Health.

During 40 years, he’s published more than 400 articles, chapters, & books on mental health and authored The Sanity of Survival. He has been interviewed by Ebony; Jet; Essence; Emerge; New York Times; Chicago Tribune Magazine; People Magazine; Chicago Reporter; "Nightline"; ABC News; NPR; "CBS Sunday Morning"; The News Hour with Jim Lehrer; the Tom Joyner Morning Show; Chicago Tonight; & the "Today" show. A 1967 graduate of UIC, he earned his MD from Meharry College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1971. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1974 at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute/Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago.