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Daniel J. Carlat, MD, is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and Editor-in-Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report—a monthly newsletter on psychopharmacology that is widely read by psychiatrists and nurses in the United States. His blog, The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, is consistently ranked as one of the 10 most influential health blogs by Wikio and has received an award for outstanding mental health journalism by the Psych Central Web site.

Michael Blumenfield, MD, is The Sidney E. Frank Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College. He is a Past Speaker of the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Blumenfield lives and practices in Woodland Hills, Calif, where he also writes the weekly blog, PsychiatryTalk.com.

H. Steven Moffic, MD, has tried to devote his work to underserved and/or misserved populations—including the military, the poor, minorities, the transgendered, and (most recently) prisoners. Dr Moffic is a tenured professor in the departments of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of family and community medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has a private practice and has also led a private psychiatric hospital. Dr Moffic’s book The Ethical Way: Challenges and Solutions for Managed Behavioral Healthcare (Jossey-Bass, 1997) was the first on the subject. He has edited ethics columns for 3 psychiatric newsletters.

James L. Knoll IV, MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at the SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, where he is director of forensic psychiatry, and director of the forensic psychiatry fellowship at Central New York Psychiatric Center. Dr Knoll provides forensic consults for the criminal justice system and the private sector. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters and is coeditor of the Correctional Mental Health Report. He contributes frequently to Psychiatric Times and is series editor of the column Psychiatry & The Law. He writes a forensic psychiatry blog,

The Edge Effect.

Ronald Pies, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatric Times. He is professor of psychiatry and lecturer on bioethics and humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and clinical professor of Psychiatry at Tufts in Boston. He is, with S. Jacobson and I. Katz, author of Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology, and a number of psychiatric texbooks. His most recent book, Everything Has Two Handles: The Stoic's Guide to the Art of Living, is availalbe from Hamilton Books. Dr Pies's upcoming book, "Becoming a Mensch", is to be published late this year by Hamilton Books.

Allen Frances, MD, was the chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and of the department of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC. He is currently professor emeritus at Duke.