SPI Directors
    Daniel M. Fox is President Emeritus of the Milbank Memorial Fund, after serving as President from 1990 to 2007. Before joining the Fund he served in state government (Massachusetts and New York), as an advisor to and staff member of three federal agencies and as a faculty member and administrator at Harvard University and then at the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his A.B., A.M, and Ph.D. at Harvard University. Dan is chair of the Board of Directors of Suicide Prevention International (SPI) and is coordinating the efforts of major health care organizations that are working with SPI to reduce the high suicide rate among physicians.  
Daniel M. Fox

 



  Herbert Hendin, M.D. is chief executive officer and medical director of Suicide Prevention International (SPI) and Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He has been the Principal Investigator on studies of suicide in the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, and Hungary and in the U.S. among college students, the elderly, African Americans, and Vietnam veterans. He has also done extensive research in the areas of posttraumatic stress disorders, substance abuse, and assisted suicide. The many awards he has received for his work include the prestigious Louis I. Dublin Award of the American Association of Suicidology for “distinguished contributions to our knowledge of suicide.” The U.S Supreme Court cited his work in this country and in the Netherlands in their 1997 decision that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide. He is one of two U.S. experts on suicide prevention selected by WHO to advise and assist WHO in its global suicide prevention activities. Read more >>>  
Herbert Hendin, M.D.

 



  Kathy Karich is Vice President and Managing Director at BearingPoint, Inc., a major international management and technology consulting company.  Kathy leads BearingPoint's State and Local Government consulting practice in the Northeast Sector. With more than 20 years of financial and managerial experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors, Kathy is well suited to serve as SPI Secretary/Treasurer.  Kathy has a particular interest in programs focused on suicide prevention, and support for relatives and friends who have lost loved ones to suicide.  
Kathy Karich

 



 

Stuart L. Shapiro is a partner in Shapiro Forman Allen & Sava LLP. Mr. Shapiro’s practice focuses on disputes involving substantial commercial contractual matters, fiduciary duties of directors and officers of publicly and closely held corporations, the federal securities laws, mergers and acquisitions and control contests, and accounting issues.  He is general corporate counsel to a number of public and private companies.

Mr. Shapiro was lead or co-lead counsel in numerous takeover litigations while at Skadden Arps, including Revlon, Federated Department Stores and the Household “poison pill” case. At SFA&S he has represented the Special Litigation Committee of the American International Group, Inc. Board of Directors, and portfolio companies owned by MetLife and Citicorp Venture Capital.

As a member of SPI’s Board of Directors, Mr. Shapiro has helped us to forge an alliance with the University Settlement, a premier social service agency, to create a center that will provide comprehensive care for children who have lost a parent or sibling to suicide.

 
Stuart L. Shapiro

 



 

In 2007, Nicole Browning completed a remarkable and distinguished 20-year career at MTV Networks.  Joining the company in 1986 she rose through the company ranks to become President of Sales and Marketing.  She was instrumental in strategically securing and maintaining distribution for all of the MTV Networks and for growing all distribution revenues. Ms. Browning and her team were responsible for the successful launch and distribution of the newer services from MTV Networks including: MTV2, TV Land, Noggin, VH1 Classic and the entire MTVN Digital Suite. After the death of her 19-year old daughter, Dominique Alice Blakely to suicide, Ms Browning became involved in the work of Suicide Prevention International. She became chair of the Development Committee in 2007 and has been the catalyst for SPI’s remarkable growth since.

 
Nicole Browning

 



  Gary J. Kennedy, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has carefully evaluated the ways in which improved care of depression can reduce suicidal behavior in later life and concluded that a collaborative approach that integrates all mental health services, including  medication, psychotherapy, and pain management within primary medical care has the best chance of success. A past president the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, he is called upon by Congress to testify on public policy regarding the treatment of late life depression and suicide. Dr, Kennedy’s expertise in program evaluation makes him ideal for his role with Suicide Prevention International (SPI) as chair of SPI’s Scientific Council that recommends the new projects for SPI undertakes and selects appropriate investigators to work with us in developing and implementing the projects.  
Gary J. Kennedy, M.D.

 



  Dr. Kathleen M. Foley is an Attending Neurologist in the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. She is Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and holds the Chair of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Pain Research. In 1981, Dr. Foley was appointed chief of the newly formed Pain Service within the Department of Neurology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. It was the first designated pain service in a cancer center in the United States. Dr. Foley was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science for her national and international efforts in the treatment of patients with cancer pain. She is currently Medical Director of the Palliative Care Initiative of the Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute. At Suicide Prevention International she is a member of the Scientific Council and of the subcommittee that recommends to the Board of Directors new projects that SPI should  develop and implement.  
Kathleen Foley, M.D.

 



  Ann Carlsen is founder and chief executive officer of Carlsen Resources, Inc. (CRI), a premier provider of executive search and consulting services in the media and telecommunications arena. Carlsen Resources has placed experienced executives and rising stars at leading companies such as Bresnan, Bright House, Comcast, Current, Google, Scripps Networks, Time Warner and Viacom. Ann has been named Woman of the Year by Women in Cable and Telecommunications. She was awarded the Distinguished Vanguard Award for Leadership by the National Cable Television Association, that organization’s highest honor. Ann has served creatively and productively on the Development Committee of Suicide Prevention International (SPI) and in 2008 was elected to SPI's Board of Directors.  
Ann Carlsen
 
 
 
 

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