Thomas E. Bryant, MD, JD

Dr. Bryant obtained both medical and legal degrees at Emory University in Atlanta. While still a law student, he became a consultant to the US Office of Economic Opportunity for the Southwestern region and later became the Director of Health Affairs for that agency. He left the Federal government to join the Ford Foundation staff as their medical-legal specialist. While there, he founded the National Drug Abuse Council which was funded by Ford, Carnegie, Commonwealth and the Equitable Assurance Society.

He was named by then President Jimmy Carter as the Co-Chairman of the President's Commission on Mental Health where he began his association with former First Lady Rosalyn Carter Institute at Georgia Southwestern University. He is a member of the Mental Health Task Force at the Carter Presidential Center at Emory University in Atlanta.

A member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences since 1973, he has had a lengthy career in public health policy development both in the private sector and the government.

Dr. Bryant has been the Chairman and President of the Aspirin Foundation of America for the past fifteen years. In addition, he is the Chair of the management company he founded in 1989, Nonprofit Management, Inc. He is also the President of The Friends of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, an organization he co-founded with former Congressman Paul G. Rogers, who had served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health during his tenure in the Congress.

A recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Federal Government, he has also been honored by Emory University, receiving the Emory Medal as an outstanding alumnus in 1987 and as an outstanding alumnus of the Emory Law School.