Mayor Thomas M. Menino, City of Boston
Welcome Address
Gil G. Noam, Founder and Director of PEAR
Opening and Closing Remarks
Terry Real, Family Therapist and Author
Morning Keynote and Morning Session
Scott Rauch, McLean Hospital President and Psychiatrist in Chief
Special Remarks
Mayor Thomas M. Menino
City of Boston
Welcome Address
Thomas M. Menino is serving his fourth term as Mayor of the City of Boston. The first Italian-American Mayor of Boston, he was elected to his first term on November 2, 1993, winning 64 percent of the vote and 18 of the city’s 22 wards. Mayor Menino was re-elected to a second term without opposition in 1997 and won a third term in a landslide victory in November 2001. Most recently, Mayor Menino won a historic fourth election in November, 2005 with 68 percent of the vote. Prior to his election in 1993, he previously served four months as Acting Mayor and nine years as a District City Councilor from Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood. |
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| A lifelong resident of Hyde Park, Mayor Menino is a graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School. In 1963, Mayor Menino earned an associate's degree in business management and advertising and sales from Chamberlayne Junior College. In 1988, he earned a degree in community planning from the University of Massachusetts. Mayor Menino and his wife, the former Angela Faletra, have two children, Susan and Thomas, Jr., and six grandchildren.
During his tenure as Mayor of Boston, Mayor Menino has worked hard to improve the quality of life for all of Boston’s 589,000 residents. As President of the United States Conference of Mayors from 2002-2003, Mayor Menino championed homeland security and housing availability. He has been an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 1989.
In the summer of 2004, Mayor Menino brought the Democratic National Convention to Boston. The convention put a national spotlight on Boston, showcasing all that Boston has to offer. Estimates put the economic contribution of the convention at more than $150 million dollars and its positive effects will be felt for years.
Mayor Menino’s reputation for getting the job done has earned him a high approval rating among Boston residents. Among his main priorities, are: providing every child with a quality education; creating affordable housing; lowering the crime rate; revitalizing Boston's neighborhoods; and promoting a healthy lifestyle for all city residents.
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Gil G. Noam
Founder and Director of PEAR
Associate Professor Harvard University and McLean Hospital
Opening and Closing Remarks
Gil G. Noam is Executive Director of the Program in Education, Afterschool & Resiliency (PEAR) and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. Trained as a clinical and developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst in both Europe and the United States, Dr. Noam has a strong interest in supporting resilience in youth, especially in educational settings.
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He served as the director of the Risk and Prevention program, and is the founder of the RALLY Prevention Program, a Boston-based intervention that bridges social and academic support in school, afterschool, and community settings.
Dr. Noam has also followed a large group of high-risk children into adulthood in a longitudinal study that explores clinical, educational, and occupational outcomes.
Dr. Noam has published over 200 papers, articles, and books in the areas of child and adolescent development as well as risk and resiliency in clinical, school and afterschool settings. He has become the editor-in-chief of the journal New Directions in Youth Development: Theory, Practice and Research, which has a strong focus on out-of-school time.
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Terry Real
Founder REAL Relational Solutions
Family Therapist and Author
Featured Speaker
Terry Real been a practicing family therapist for more than twenty years and has lectured and given workshops across the country.
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He has been featured on NBC Nightly News, Today, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show and Oprah, as well as in The New York Times, Psychology Today, Esquire, and numerous academic publications.
Terry served as a senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts, is a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona., and founded The Relational Life Institute - which is dedicated to teaching mental health professionals the practice of Relational Life Therapy (RLT™) and teaching the general public how to live relational lives.
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Scott Rauch
McLean Hospital President and Psychiatrist in Chief
Special Remarks
Dr. Rauch received his undergraduate degree with honors in Neuroscience from Amherst College and attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry as well as a Radiology Research Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). |
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| Dr. Rauch served for many years as Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Neuroscience Research at MGH, where he was the founding Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and the MGH Division of Psychiatric Neuroscience Research and Neurotherapeutics. Currently, Dr. Rauch is President and Psychiatrist in Chief of McLean Hospital as well as Chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health. He holds an appointment as Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rauch has contributed over 250 publications to the scientific literature and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has received numerous honors, including the 2004 Joel Elkes Award for outstanding contributions in translational research within psychiatry.
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