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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan

    Richard Balon M.D.

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas

    John H. Coverdale M.D., M. Ed., FRANZCP

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University in Stanford, California

    Laura Weiss Roberts M.D., M.A. (Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor)

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Balon, R., Coverdale, J.H. & Roberts, L.W. Are We Heading Into a Workforce Crisis?. Acad Psychiatry 35, 1–3 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.35.1.1

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