Sherry Glied, Ph.D., chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In 1992–93, she served as a senior economist for health care and labor market policy on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Bush and Clinton. She is the author of Chronic Condition (Harvard University Press, 1998), a book about health care reform, and the coauthor (with Richard Frank) of Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the U.S. Since 1950 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), as well as numerous articles. She can be reached at sag1@columbia.edu.