Carol S. North, MD, MPE, is The Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Program in Trauma and Disaster, VA, and North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX. She is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery/Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. An Iowa native, Dr. North completed her medical education, internship and residency, postdoctoral fellowship training, and masters degree in psychiatric epidemiology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She remained there as a faculty member for 18 years, providing major contributions to patient care, teaching, and research while becoming widely recognized for her research in areas of psychiatric epidemiology. She now continues this work in Dallas, Texas, as the Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery/Emergency Medicine, VA North Texas Health Care System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Sean H. Yutzy MD: Dr. Yutzy completed his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School and his internship and residency in psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Following residency, Dr. Yutzy completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland OH. Dr. Yutzy susequently returned to Washington University where he served on faculty for 12 years concentrating on teaching, assessment, and research directly related to psychiatric nosology. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He has authored approximately 30 published papers and invited chapters that primarily focus on issues of nosology.