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Charles B. O'Keeffe is Professor Preventive Medicine and Community Health at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Mr. O'Keeffe recently joined VCU after retiring as President and CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc. Mr. O'Keeffe has led a distinguished career in the pharmaceutical industry and government. As President of Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Services he developed the first child-resistant abuse-resistant vehicle for dispensing methadone. He served as President of Washington Reference Laboratories which provided toxicology services to the Department of Defense during the Vietnam War. He has served in the White House for three presidents as advisor special assistant for international health and deputy director for international affairs in the Office of Drug Abuse Policy and has served on U.S. delegations to the World Health Assembly and the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Mr. O'Keeffe was instrumental in helping Congress reach consensus on the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000. | 