Trustees  

Sr. Margaret Beatty
R.S.M., Vice-President Mission Services, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc., Savannah, GA.

Rev. James W. Giddens
M.Div., Pastor Skidaway Island United Methodist Church, Savannah, Georgia

Philip G. Levendusky
Ph.D., Vice President of New Program Development, McLean Hospital; Director of Psychology Department, McLean Hospital; Director of Clinical Training, McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Jane Adams Nangle
J.D., an attorney in private practice in Savannah, Georgia and family member of mentally ill adult.

D. Jeffrey Newport
M.D., M.Div., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Emory Women's Mental Health Program.

J. Michael Weathers
C.P.A., Speltz & Weis LLC, Atlanta, Georgia and family member of mentally ill adult.

Advisory Council

Richard H. Hunter
Ph.D., ABPP CEO of Clinical Outcomes Group, Marion, IL, a national consulting firm that specializes in mental health system reform, consultation and training on improving outcomes of treatment-refractory clients and providing assistance to Congress, federal agencies and states concerning mental health system funding, regulations, and clinical practice. Among other important positions, he is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Past Chair of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Serious Mental Illness. Mr. Hunter is also a member of the prestigious Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Ernest A. Codman Award Evaluation Committee and a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.

Dan and Rose Mary Kelly
founders of Rose Hill Center in Holly, MI. The Kelly’s were our inspiration for Pine Woods Retreat. To bring services for their son, John, to Michigan, they designed a program, found land, raised money and ... a short time later Rose Hill Center opened its doors. It has been operating successfully for over thirteen years and is the model for the Recovery Program at Pine Woods.
 

Charles B. Nemeroff
M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine and Director of the NIMH-funded Conte Center for the Neurobiology of Major Mental Health Disorders, Atlanta, GA. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the A.E. Bennett Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Selo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Depression Research, the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, the Curt P. Richter Award from the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, and the Research Prize from the American Psychiatric Association. He serves on the Editorial Board of 11 journals, and is co-editor of the Textbook of Psychopharmacology.

 

Todd D. Schaible
Ph.D., President and CEO, Burrell Behavioral Health, Springfield, MO. Dr. Schaible joined Burrell 26 years ago when it was a small foundation started by a few local community leaders to provide mental health services. Under his leadership, it now has a primary service area of 7 counties with services provided in an additional 21 counties. The treatment programs designed at Burrell have become models for state and national mental health authorities and have won numerous awards including the National Award for Excellence from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.

 

James Craig Seltzer
M.B.A., Ph.D., Senior Consultant for Schizophrenia Services at the Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital’s Mental Health Network, Hartford, CT. Dr. Seltzer has conducted considerable research and program development in the field of cognitive remediation for schizophrenia.
 

Arnold Tenenbaum
Former President of Chatham Steel Corporation, Savannah, GA. Mr. Tenenbaum graduated from Dartmouth College and attended Columbia University Graduate School of Business. For over 40 years, he has given tirelessly of his time, talent, wisdom and leadership to local, state and national, professional, civic, and charitable organizations always leading the way toward a better community and earning honors and awards from organizations too numerous to list. He led the Savannah Vision 2020 program, a community planning coalition, and has served as Chairman of the Metals Service Center Institute, winning its National Service Center Executive of the Year Award in 2002. He is past chairman, president or Board member of the following organizations: Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, United Way of the Coastal Empire, Historic Savannah Foundation, Georgia Future Communities Commission, Savannah Business Group, Telfair Museum of Art, Rotary Club of Savannah, South College, Georgia Cities Foundation, Junior Achievement Advisory Board, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Country Day and Savannah Onstage.

 

E. Fuller Torrey
M.D. Executive Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, President of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
He has authored or co-authored 18 books, including Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers (4th edition, Harper & Row, 2001) and, with co-author Judy Miller, The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present (Rutgers University Press, 2002). To many families of people with mental illness, Dr. Torrey is considered schizophrenia’s “Most Zealous Foe.”