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Don
Roberts (President)
Mr.
Roberts
is a well-known, long-time mental health consumer advocate and activist. He was a board member of Mental Health
Consumers of Alaska, an Alaska
non-profit corporation and tax exempt organization and served as president of
that organization for a time. He has
appeared many times before the Alaska Mental Health Board, which is the state
agency charged with planning and coordinating mental health services funded by
the State of Alaska. Most
recently, Mr. Roberts has just finished his term as a member of the Alaska
State Independent Living Council (The SILC).
The governor of the state of Alaska appoints the membership to the SILC,
whose mission is to promote a philosophy of consumer control, peer support,
self-help, self determination, equal access, and individual systems advocacy,
in order to maximize leadership, empowerment, independence, productivity and to
support full inclusion integration of individuals with disabilities into the
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Christopher
D. Cyphers (board member). Mr. Cyphers is a partner and member of the
Business Department in Preston Gates & Ellis LLP’s
Anchorage office. His
practice includes a broad range of corporate business transactions with an
emphasis on public and private securities offerings for technology, biotech and
natural resource companies, and venture capital investors. Chris has also served as U.S. counsel on a number of cross-border transactions for
Canadian, Mexican, Israeli, and Asian companies and advises on a broad range of
transactional matters including joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers
and acquisitions and business formation issues. |
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Grace E.
Jackson, MD (Psychiatrist Consultant). Dr. Jackson is a 1996 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She holds degrees in biology and political
science, as well as a Master's degree in Public Administration. Dr. Jackson completed her psychiatric
internship and residency in the U.S. Navy, with subsequent assignment to
Bethesda Naval Hospital as a staff physician.
Since transitioning out of the military in spring 2002, Dr. Jackson has
lectured widely in Europe and the United States, speaking about "The Unintended Consequences of
Developing Biotechnologies"; "The History and Philosophy of Attention
Deficit Disorder"; "Drug-Induced Psychiatric Emergencies"; and
"The Limitations of Biological Psychiatry". She has spoken at international conferences
featuring highly respected clinicians, such as Dr. David Healy (The
Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology); Dr. David Stein
(Ritalin Is Not The Answer); and Dr. Bertram Karon (Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of
Choice). Dr. Jackson is currently working in
the state prison system in North Carolina. |