Christopoher Kennedy Lawford
Mr. Lawford has also focused much of his life on public service in the non-profit sector, working for The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, The Special Olympics, and The Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and Caron Treatment Centers. Currently, he holds positions as a Public Policy Consultant for Caron Treatment Centers and a national spokesperson for a Hepatitis C public awareness campaign and was recently appointed to the California Public Health Advisory Committee. 

He is the author of Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption (William Morrow 2005), a book illuminating the extraordinary circumstances of his life and bringing a cohesive message of survival, hope and finding one's integrity.The book received praise from critics and writers:
 

Patrick J. Kennedy
Patrick J. Kennedy is serving his eighth term in Congress as the representative from the First District of Rhode Island. 

Kennedy was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee in December 1998, but requested a leave of absence in order to fulfill a two-year term as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  With the term completed, Kennedy now sits on the powerful panel which has authority over all of the federal government’s discretionary spending.  As part of his Appropriations duties, Kennedy sits on the Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; and on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. He is also a member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

 David Mee-Lee, M.D.

The addiction treatment field has achieved much over the past decade. We now work more closely with mental health for people with co-occurring disorders. Medication assisted treatment is gaining respect. Evidence-based practices are on the tip of people’s tongues. Yet, in many ways, we are still far from the vision of client-directed, outcomes-driven services. This presentation will review accomplishments and four generations of addiction treatment. It will highlight where and why we are still stuck in making progress towards outcome-driven services; and how we can get the rest of the way from here.

Victor Capoccia is program director for Closing the Treatment Gap and a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin. Previously he led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Addiction Prevention and Treatment team, and worked on the Human Capital and Quality teams.

For ten years, Capoccia was the president and CEO of CAB Health and Recovery Services, Inc., a community-based provider for inpatient, residential, outpatient, prevention, and related health services in the alcohol and drug addiction field. He was an invited member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Community-Based Drug Treatment; and chairman of CSAT’s National Treatment Plan work group on Improving Treatment Systems.