Carl Bell

Who is Carl Bell?

Carl Compton Bell is a professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bell is a National Institute of Mental Health international researcher, an author of more than 450 books, chapters, and articles addressing issues of violence prevention, HIV prevention, isolated sleep paralysis, misdiagnosis of Manic depressive illness, and children exposed to violence.

Bell is the President/C.E.O. of the Community Mental Health Council, Inc. a large not-for-profit community mental health centers in the U.S. He is also the Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In October 2011, Bell received the American Psychiatric Association’s annual Solomon Carter Fuller Award at APA’s Institute on Psychiatric Services in San Francisco.