Paul E. Garfinkel, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) Staff Psychiatrist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Dr. Paul Garfinkel, Chairman of The Advisory Board on Health Education, obtained his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1969, and pursued his psychiatric residency at the University of Toronto. In 1982, he was appointed Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital. In 1990, he became Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and President and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health, in 1997, a position he held until December 2009. In 1996, he was elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. At various times, he has served as Visiting Professor in England, Ireland, Italy, and the United States.

Dr. Garfinkel is a researcher, clinician, and administrator. He is the author and editor of nine books on eating disorders. As well he has contributed numerous articles to the professional literature and has lectured widely. Other contributions include his taking a leading role in the advocacy of support for psychiatric science, fighting the stigma of mental illness and addiction, and mentoring younger scientists in psychiatric research.

Bill Wilkerson, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health

Mr Wilkerson put "mental health in the workplace" squarely on the agenda of corporate Canada. Top Canadian CEOs are now paying close attention to an issue long ignored.

Also, Canada’s Federal Deputy Minister of Health asked Bill to assist a committee of deputies of the Government of Canada to develop a mental health strategy for federal public servants.

Bill served as mental health adviser to the RCMP and the Employee Mental Health Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and on the Mental Health Advisory Committee of the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada. He continues to address police and military leaders on mental health in their most unconventional workplace."

He is inaugural chairman of the Workforce Advisory Committee for the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Great-West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace; and Founding Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health at UBC.

Bill is General Chairman of the US/Canada Forum on Mental Health and Productivity, an initiative he launched with Michael Wilson, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States. It is no surprise to learn he is a recipient of The American Psychiatric Association "Award of Excellence" for his leadership in promoting mental health in the workplace.

Mr. Wilkerson is a recipient of the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s coveted "Mental Illness Special Recognition Award".

Andrew E. Nierenberg, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Bipolar Research Program; and Associate Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Andrew Nierenberg obtained his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He then pursued a residency in psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital, after which he became a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University. Dr. Nierenberg then supervised one of the Affective Disorders Inpatient Units and the Affective Disorders Outpatient Unit at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. In 1992, he joined the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.

His academic publications are prolific and, since 1994, Dr. Nierenberg has been listed as being among the best doctors in North America in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He received the NDMDA Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award. He is also a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Nierenberg is the Director of the NIMH Bipolar Trials Network. His primary interests are in the treatment of resistant depression, bipolar depression, and the longitudinal course of mood disorders. Dr. Nierenberg lectures nationally and internationally, teaches and supervises clinicians and researchers, maintains an active clinical practice, conducts clinical trials, and is Editor in Chief of CNS Spectrums as well as on the editorial boards of multiple psychiatric journals.