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About The Authors�
New York Medical College, and trained in psychiatry at Met-
ropolitan Hospital. She lives in Manhattan with her husband,
Dr. Benjamin Sadock, where she maintains an active practice
that includes individual psychotherapy, couples and marital
therapy, sex therapy, psychiatric consultation, and pharmaco-
therapy. She and her husband have two children, James and
Victoria, both emergency physicians, and two grandchildren,
Emily and Celia. In her leisure time, Dr. Sadock enjoys theater,
film, golf, reading fiction, and travel.
Pedro Ruiz, M.D.
Pedro Ruiz, M.D. is Professor and Interim Chair of the Depart-
ment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University
of Texas Medical School at Houston. He graduated from medi-
cal school at the University of Paris in France. He conducted
his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Miami
Medical School in Florida. He has held faculty appointments at
a professorial level at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in
NewYork City, and at Baylor College of Medicine and the Uni-
versity of Texas Medical School at Houston. He has served in
various positions: Director of the Lincoln Hospital Community
Mental Health Center, Director of the Bronx Psychiatric Center,
Assistant Dean and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry,
all at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City;
Chief, Psychiatry Service at Ben Taub General Hospital and
Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, Texas; Medical Director of the University
of Texas Mental Sciences Institute and Vice Chair of the Depart-
ment of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical School at
Houston, in Houston, Texas. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow
of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Ameri-
can College of Psychiatrists, the American Association for
Social Psychiatry, the Benjamin Rush Society and the Ameri-
can Group Psychotherapy Association, and an Honorary Fellow
of the World Psychiatric Association. He is also a member of
the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the Group for
the Advancement of Psychiatry, The American Association of
Community Psychiatrists and the American Association of Psy-
chiatric Administrators. He was President of the American Col-
lege of Psychiatrists (2000–2001), the American Association
for Social Psychiatry (2000–2002), the American Board of Psy-
chiatry and Neurology (2002–2003), the American Psychiatric
Association (2006–2007), and is currently President Elect of
the World Psychiatric Association. He has served in more than
40 Editorial Boards, among them: TheAmerican Journal of Psy-
chiatry, Psychiatric Services, The American Journal on Addic-
tions, and World Psychiatry. He has received over 60 awards
and honors, among them: The Administrative Psychiatry Award,
Simon Bolivar Award, Tarjan Award, Nancy C.A. Roeske Cer-
tificate of Excellence, and the Irma J. Bland Award from the
American Psychiatric Association; also, the Bowis Award from
the American College of Psychiatrists. He is the author or editor
of more than 600 publications; he has delivered worldwide more
than 200 grand rounds and invited lectures; he has also made
more than 400 worldwide scientific presentations. He and his
wife Angela have two children, Pedro Pablo and Angela Maria,
and four grandchildren, Francisco Antonio, Pedro Pablo, Jr.,
Omar Joseph, III, and Pablo Antonio. Dr. Ruiz enjoys reading
literary novels, theater, films, traveling, and fishing.
