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Tom Davis

Patch.com editor and Author, 'A Legacy of Madness'

Tom Davis is a long-time journalist who is New Jersey editor at Patch.com. Tom has written a book on the history of mental health in his family called "A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family From Generations of Mental Illness," which will be released Oct. 3, 2011. The book has been endorsed by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The book is on his Amazon lists that deal with the best books on suicide and the best books on eating disorders. Tom Davis has appeared on CNN's Showbiz Tonight, Entertainment Tonight, the CBS Evening News, WABC-TV and Fox-5 New York to comment on and discuss mental health issues. One of his first television appearances was on ESPN's Boardwalk and Baseball Super Bowl of Sports Trivia in January 1988. At The Record of Bergen County, N.J., he wrote "Coping" - one of the nation's only mental health columns - for five years, and covered New Jersey commuter issues. He was named "Citizen of the Year" in 2007 by the American Psychiatric Association's New Jersey chapter, and he received an ambassador award from the N.J. Governor's Council on Mental Health in 2008. He created a groundbreaking course on mental health issues in the media at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, and also teaches at Rutgers University, where he edits and produces Rutgers Reporter. He was one of six people in the nation to win the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship in 2004. He received a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2009.