Conference Advisory Board

Glenn Christenson
Managing Director, Velstand Investments, Inc., and Chairman, National Center for Responsible Gaming

Peter Collins
Professor, Public Policy Studies, and Director, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford; and Executive Director, South African National Responsible Gambling Programme

Alan Feldman
Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, MGM MIRAGE

Jon E. Grant, M.D., M.P.H., J.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Impulse Control Clinic, University of Minnesota Medical School

Dean Hestermann
Corporate Director of Public Affairs, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

Nanette Horner
Director of Compulsive and Problem Gambling, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board

Connie Jones
Director of Responsible Gaming, IGT

Eileen Luna Firebaugh
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona

Reece Middleton
Executive Director, Louisiana Association on Compulsive Gambling

Judy Patterson
Executive Director and Senior Vice President, American Gaming Association

Marc N. Potenza, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Founding Director of the Problem Gambling Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine

Christine Reilly
Executive Director, Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders

Kate Spilde, Ph.D.
Chair, Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, and Associate Professor, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, San Diego State University

Mark Vander Linden
Executive Director, Iowa Gambling Treatment Program