ABOUT THE AUTHORS

George S. Glass, MD

George S. Glass is a father and grandfather. He has served as a medical doctor and psychiatrist for more than thirty years. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Swarthmore College, earned a medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and did his psychiatric residency at the Yale University Medical School. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and addictionologist.

Dr. Glass’s post-residency training included intensive studies of the treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse, which led to clinical experience in the treatment of adult, adolescent, and geriatric individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse problems, including alcohol- and drug-related issues, depression, and issues resulting from physical, psychological, and stress-related traumas, including divorce.

Since 1986, he has been helping families, attorneys, and courts deal with the psychological consequences of divorce. Dr. Glass has traveled throughout Texas as a forensic expert in family court cases, as well as conducting group presentations and divorce workshops, and treating patients involved in family disruptions.

Dr. Glass has administered, owned, and directed inpatient hospital treatment programs, day hospital programs, a community mental health center, and a residential treatment center, beginning in 1972 when he set up the US Navy’s first alcohol treatment program at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, and he has since served as chairman of departments of psychiatry at several Houston hospitals.

Dr. Glass’s academic credits include appointments as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School and School of Public Health and the Cornell Weill School of Medicine.

Dr. Glass has developed, managed, and conducted independent medical evaluations for the FAA, the Airline Pilot’s Association, Harris County Medical Society, the Texas State Bar, multiple Fortune 500 companies and their unions, as well as federal, state, and local courts and attorneys who work with them.

Please visit www.GeorgeSGlassMDPA.com for more information.

David Tabatsky

David Tabatsky is a single father of two children, one halfway through college and the other about to leave home very soon. When he is not wandering about aimlessly, pining for his son and daughter, he is a writer, editor, teacher, director, and performing artist. He received his bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in theater education, both from Adelphi University.

Tabatsky is the author of Write for Life: Communicating Your Way Through Cancer (2013) and coauthor of The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love and editor of Elizabeth Bayer’s It’s Just a Word, both published by Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing in 2009. He is the coauthor, with Bruce Kluger, of Dear President Obama: Letters of Hope from Children Across America, also published in 2009. Tabatsky wrote The Boy Behind the Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis (2009). With Dr. Mark Banschick, Tabatsky coauthored The Intelligent Divorce—Books One and Two (2009 and 2010) and The Wright Choice: Your Family’s Guide to Healthy Eating, Modern Fitness and Saving Money (2011), with Dr. Randy Wright. Tabatsky was the consulting editor for Marlo Thomas and her New York Times bestseller The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn (2006). He has published two editions of What’s Cool Berlin, a comic travel guide to Germany’s capital, and has written for The Forward, Parenting, and Sesame Street Parent, among other publications.

Tabatsky has worked professionally in theater and circus as an actor, clown, and juggler, at Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, and the Beacon Theatre, and throughout the United States and Europe, most notably at the Chamäleon in Berlin, New End Theatre in London, Folies Pigalle in Paris, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where The Stage wrote, “He is a supremely skillful performer and a fine actor, reaching levels no other comics have matched at this Fringe.” Tabatsky also directed Kinderzirkus Taborka at the renowned Tempodrom in Berlin.

Tabatsky has taught for the American School of London, die Etage in Berlin, the Big Apple Circus School, the United Nations International School, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He served on the theater faculty at Adelphi University and the Cooper Union and as a teaching artist for the Henry Street Settlement, with a focus on special education. He teaches circus arts at Sunrise Day Camp, America’s only dedicated day camp for children with cancer and their siblings.

Please visit www.tabatsky.com and www.writeforlife.info for more information.