i know that doctor ron kessler will talk at this conference about his findings that the average person who in the course of their life will experience a mental disorder will experience it by the age of 14. 75% by the age of 23. and that the average lifetime between first having symptoms and interim chair is nine years. in the united states of america. so the understanding, for example, of how untreated mental depression can interrupt the mom's ability to turn on those receptors in the baby's brain that are critical to developing the relationships and how that can leave later on to behavioral problems and a conduct disorder, you know, which we understand the scientific link there. the report just out from the iom about prevention, and the report just out about depression in young people and their adults, boy, is this tough time at. so the question though of how we make the sale to, and i really like the metaphor of poking our car to that train. what our message is, in this community, we're going to have to get a little bit clearer about, but i think a message about prevention and wellne

ron kessler, professor of health care policy at harvard medical school. that is the most cited mental health researcher. dr. kessler's research deals broadly with the social determinants of mental health and illness, and let was mentioning, as we were chatting about, his work has been so successful, it has been repeatedly cited by people like tipper gore who cite all kinds of findings. finally, it is a pleasure to introduce the ceo of the american association for the advancement of science and executive publisher, what is probably the most prestigious journal in science, cleverly named science. dr. lester serve for 7 years, the national institute on drug abuse and serve for many years to the point where he was close to assisting the banquet on the executive conference for wall. the acting director of the national institute of mental health. alan has been a longtime colleague, his fingerprints was all over it. and it was a very strong orientation towards research. point sanjay gupta. >> thank you all for come in. [applause] >> i am delighted to be here. if