Preventing suicide preceded by mass murder

Dr. Bell is professor of public health and director of the Institute for Juvenile Research in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written extensively on the issue of suicide and homicide, and was appointed to serve on the Institute of Medicine’s Board of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health study on pathophysiology and prevention of adolescent and adult suicide in 2000 that produced the seminal IOM report "Reducing Suicide" in 2002. Dr. Bell also worked with former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher on "Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General" in 2001.