Hans C. Breiter, M.D. is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Trained in mathematical logic before medical training, he completed a psychiatry residency and five post-doctoral fellowships in neuroanatomy, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), experimental psychology, pharmacokinetics/dynamics, and addiction neuroscience. He has been principal investigator of the MGH Phenotype Genotype Project on Addiction and Mood Disorder since 2003, an interdisciplinary multi-center project involving more than 80 investigators integrating experimental psychology, multi-modal neuroimaging, and genetics. He has directed the Motivation and Emotion Neuroscience Collaboration (MENC) since 1999, and in 2008, became Co-Director of the MGH Translational Center for Prescription Drug Abuse. He is a founding investigator in the Brain Architecture Project centered at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. In 2011, he became Scientific Director of the Warren Wright Adolescent Center at NUFSM, and in 2012, he directed the development of the Collaborative Neuromarketing Group at Northwestern University. His publications have generated 10,000 citations.

Paul Davies is the Maggie Walker Fellow at the Institute for American Values, where he edits a gambling blog. He spent 25 years as a reporter and editor at newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Daily News. A series of his editorials on casino gambling at the Inquirer was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 and a Daily News series on predatory lending was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award. Davies received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and a masters in journalism from Columbia University, where he was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow. He is an adjunct journalism professor at Temple University.

Kathleen Kovner Kline, M.D. is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist who has served on the Medical School Faculties of Dartmouth College, the University of Colorado, and currently, the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Consortium, a community mental health organization in Philadelphia.