Speaker Bio – May 14 meeting of the Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults

ROBERT J. HAGGERTY, MD is Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and formerly the president of the William T. Grant Foundation. He is a pediatrician; a graduate of Cornell University and its Medical College; Editor of Pediatrics in Review, the continuing education journal of The American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as a past president of that organization; Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine: A Journal of Urban Health; and Executive Director of the International Pediatrics Association. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including The American Pediatric Society, The Board of Overseers for the Social Sciences at Tufts University, Board of Visitors of the School of Public Health at Oklahoma University, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been Co-editor of Pediatrics, Associate Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, and Chairman of the Health Services Research Study Section of the National Center for Health Services Research. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, was formerly a member of its council, served on several IOM committees, and as co-chair of the 1994 IOM report, Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research.