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Sophie Delaunay - Board Treasurer

Independent Consultant and Former Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders, USA
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Sophie Delaunay is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience managing international medical and humanitarian programs at both field and HQ levels across the private and public sectors. She has broad experience in designing health strategies and conducting needs assessments and interventions in politically-charged environments (conflicts, authoritarian regimes, population displacements, natural disasters and epidemics). Delaunay has in-depth knowledge of the international aid and global health systems, with particular expertise in African and Asian environments. Her skills include strong leadership, management, fundraising, and high ethical standards. She has a strong ability to analyze contexts, network, and conduct high-level diplomacy.
Sophie Delaunay is the former executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States. Delaunay has worked on MSF projects in Thailand, Rwanda, China, and Korea, as well as in the French and U.S. offices. She also conducted in-depth evaluations of MSF programs in Liberia, Darfur, Central African Republic, and China.
She holds a master’s degree in International Business from Le Havre University in France, and a master’s degree in Political Science from Yonsei University in Korea.

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​Elyn Saks - Board Member

Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health law, Policy, and Ethics

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law; Director of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine; and Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She served as USC Gould’s associate dean for research from 2005-2010 and also teaches at the Keck School of Medicine. Saks received her JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Science from the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LLD, Hon) from Pepperdine University.

Saks writes extensively in the area of law and mental health, having published five books and more than fifty articles and book chapters. Her research has included the ethical dimensions of psychiatric research and forced treatment of people with mental health chellenges. Her memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, describes her struggles with schizophrenia while managing to craft a good life for herself in the face of a dire prognosis. She has won numerous honors, including a 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called “Genius Grant”).
In fall 2010, she announced she was using funds from the MacArthur Fellowship to create the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at USC, a think tank that studies issues at the intersection of law, mental health, and ethics. The Institute spotlights one important mental health issue per academic year and is a collaborative effort that has included faculty and graduate students from several USC departments: law, psychiatry, psychology, social work, philosophy, neuroscience, gerontology, and engineering.In addition the The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (Hyperion, 2007), other books include Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis: The Law, the Theory, and the Data (Fordham University Press, 2013); Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill (University of Chicago Press, 2002); Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis (Yale University Press, 1999); and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law (New York University Press, 1997).
Before joining the USC Gould faculty in 1989, Saks was an attorney in Connecticut and instructor at the University of Bridgeport School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University before earning her master of letters from Oxford University and her JD from Yale, where she edited the Yale Law Journal. Saks is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2013, she was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to a three-year term on the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) National Advisory Council. She also serves as a board member of Mental Health Advocacy Services, Bring Change 2 Mind, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Burton Blatt Institute. In 2004, she won both the Associate’s Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship and the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award.

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Patti Scott - Board Chair

CEO Neighbours inc. and Neighbours International

Patti Scott has worked for people with disabilities for more than 30 years. In 1995, she co-founded Neighbours, Inc., an innovative nonprofit organization created specifically to support people with disabilities and their families in choosing and designing a life for themselves within their local towns and neighborhoods. Patti is internationally recognized for her cutting-edge leadership in designing and leading an organizational culture that is focused on working as partners with people and their families as they direct their own lives, homes, personal assistants, and funding. Patti has led Neighbours in developing Self-Directed Options in Supported Living, Support Brokerage, Fiscal Intermediary Services, Support Coordination, and Agency With Choice. She has consulted and guided learning experiences throughout the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, Croatia, Malta, Australia, and New Zealand. Patti is a “passionate pragmatist,” deeply committed to assisting people in “figuring out” how people with disabilities can direct their own lives and find their place as valued contributing citizens and community members.

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John Trainor - Board Secretary
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; Chair, Mental Health Research Canada

John Trainor retired as Director of the Community Support and Research Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in 2013 and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Trainor has been involved in international development projects for more than 12 years, including in the Baltic States, Eastern Europe, Brazil, and Sri Lanka. He is a member of the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program at the Open Society Foundations. He spent four years as Senior Policy Advisor in mental health with the Government of Ontario, and many years chairing the National Mental Health Services Work Group of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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