Psychiatric Credentials
Birthplace
Canton, Ohio
Education
Masters in Medical Management (M.M.M.) from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, May 2006
Received M.D. degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, June 1973
Received B.Sc. degree WITH DISTINCTION from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, June, 1969
GRADUATE TRAINING
Resident in Psychiatry, University of Michigan Hospital; Completed Residency in June 1976
Honors
Elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, November, 2009
Elected to Distinguished Fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association, January, 2003
Elected to Fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association, December, 1998
Professional Experience
Active Staff Privileges in the Department of Psychiatry, Licking Memorial Hospital, Newark, Ohio, beginning January 2006
Active Staff Privileges in the Department of Psychiatry, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Grant Hospital, and Doctors Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, beginning June 14, 2005 (All parts of the OhioHealth System)
Private Practice of Psychiatry, Columbus, Ohio, beginning June, 2004
Medical Director of Forensic Services and Assistant Chief Clinical Officer at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio; a state hospital with 115 forensic beds, 65 of which are the State of Ohio’s only maximum security forensic beds; provide and direct services to inmates at the Franklin County Jails, start 2004
Private Practice of Psychiatry, Santa Rosa, California, beginning September, 2003 to Feb. 2004
Executive Medical Director, Department of Psychiatry, St. Luke’s Hospital, 3555 Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco, California, starting in January 2002 to August 2003
Qualified Medical Examiner, California, 2002 to 2004
Psychiatric Consultant to San Francisco Nursing Homes, starting 2002 to September 2003
Provisional Privileges, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, 2002 to 2003
Associate Unit Director, Admissions Unit, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1990 to 2001
Psychiatric Consultant to Eisenhower Center, a Traumatic Brain Injury Residential Treatment Facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998 to 2001
Psychiatric Consultant to Metro Detroit Nursing Homes, 1995 to 2001
Physician Reviewer, Michigan Peer Review Organization, 1992
Certified Forensic Examiner, State of Michigan, 1991 to 2001
Physician Reviewer, Physician Review Organization of Michigan, September, 1990 to 1992
Private Forensic Psychiatry Practice, 1988 to Present. Director of Day Treatment Program, York Woods Center, 1977 to 1978
Staff Psychiatrist, York Woods Center; a hospital for adolescent patients operated by the State of Michigan, 1976 to 1979
Private practice in General Psychiatry, 1976 to Present
Staff Privileges at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1976 to 2001
Consultant, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, State of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975 to 1976
Licensure
Michigan License #4301034006
Georgia License #18016
California License #G31617
Ohio License #35-05-9345-F
Florida License #ME99817
Board Certifications
Recertified in Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, August 2008 to December, 2018, Certificate #1138
Recertified in Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, April 2005 to December 2015, Certificate #1359
Recertified in Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, June 2003 to June 2013, Certificate # 72
Qualified Medical Examiner, State of California, qualified in 2002
Certified in Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, April 1997; Certificate # 1138
Certified in Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, October, 1995; Certificate #1359
Certified in Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, October, 1994; Certificate #72
Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, June 1978; Certificate; # 17867
Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, 1974
Training And Education
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Ohio University College of Medicine, Athens, Ohio, beginning 2006
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, beginning March, 2002 to 2004
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Vallejo, California, beginning February 2002 to 2003
Member, Student, Resident and Fellow Training Committee, Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Teacher and supervisor of medical students and psychiatric residents from the University of Michigan rotating through the Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Teacher and supervisor of Forensic Fellows at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Teacher in Core Curriculum to Psychiatric Residents, University of Michigan
Medical School Affiliation
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, beginning June 2006
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, beginning 2006
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco from 2002 to 2004
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Vallejo, California, appointed starting February 26, 2002 to 2003
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, 1995 to 2001
Professional Presentations
Presentation: Competency and Criminal Responsibility in Ohio, to Capital University law students, Columbus, Ohio, September 2008
Presentation: Alcoholism and the Medical and Legal Professional, to Ohio Appellate Judges, Ohio Supreme Court Judicial College, Columbus, Ohio, September 2008
Presentation: Treatment of Opiate Addiction with Suboxone in Grand Rounds at Riverside Meth. Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 2008
Presentation: The Insanity Defense, to the Central Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Columbus, Ohio, May 30, 2007
Presentation: The Insanity Defense, to 3rd and 4th year psychiatric residents at Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, April, 2007
Presentation: When to Use ECT, to the clinical and administrative staffs of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, combined Columbus and Dayton campuses, at Columbus, Ohio, April, 2007
Presentation: Treatment of Depression and Agitation in Dementia to Medical Staff of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, February 2006
Presentation on Mental Illness to Ohio judges attending conference on special problems of judges, Ohio Supreme Court Building, Columbus, Ohio, June 2006
Presentation: The Detection of Malingering, to the combined medical and psychology staffs of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, January 2006
Presentation: The Insanity Defense, Sanity Case Report Writing, and the Charles McCoy, Jr., Expert Witness Testimony, to the Medical staff, Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, June 2005
Presentation: Testamentary Capacity, In a Symposium on Legal Issues in Geriatric Psychiatry, which included a section on Undue Influence, at the National Meeting of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, San Diego, California, March, 2005
Presentation: Concepts of Religion in Forensic Psychiatry Diagnosis: The Debate, to medical staff of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, February, 2005
Presentation: The Insanity Defense, to psychiatric residents (3rd and 4th year) at College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 1, 2005
Presentation: Case History of a Serial Murderer, to medical staff of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, November 2004
Presentation: Highpoints in the History of Forensic Psychiatry, to medical staff of Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, December 2003
Presentation: History of Forensic Psychiatry to Fellows in Forensic Psychiatry at UCSF, October, 2003
Presentation: Treatment of Agitation and Depression in Dementia at San Mateo County Community Mental Health Center, San Mateo, California, June 2003
Presentation: Treatment of Agitation and Depression in Dementia at Nobhill Healthcare Center, San Francisco, California, May 2003 Civil Commitment Lecture to psychiatric residents at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, May 2003
Presentation: "Use of Psychotropic Medications in the Nursing Home Setting," at Convalescent Center Mission, Mission Street, San Francisco, California, October 2002
Presentation: "Nursing Home Lawsuits on the Rise," in panel discussion at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law National Meeting, Newport Beach, California, October 2002
Presentation: "Undue Influence: What's Psych got to do with It," in panel discussion at American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law National Meeting, Newport Beach, California, October, 2002
Presentation: "Geriatric Murderers" to Forensic Psychiatry Fellows at University of California San Francisco, at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, Parnassus Street, San Francisco, California, May 2002
Discussion Leader at Roundtable on Usage of Antipsychotic Medications in Schizophrenia at Jardiniere Restaurant, San Francisco, Cal., January 2002
Presentation: Panel on "Geriatric Felons" and "Geriatric Murderers" at American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2001
Presentation: "Geriatric Felons" at American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry National Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 2001
Presentation: "Treatment of Depression in the Mature Adult" to area physicians, Houston, Texas, November 2000
Presentation: "The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" to the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Ireland tour participants, Dublin, Ireland, September 2000.
Presentation: "Psychiatry and Substance Abuse" to Physicians Assistants Class at Detroit Mercy University, Detroit, Michigan, September 2000.
Presentation: "Ethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly" at American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1999.
Presentation: Core Curriculum Lecture (History of Forensic Psychiatry) to Forensic Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 1999.
Presentation: "Treatment of Agitation in Dementia" to the Department of Anesthesia, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, at the hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1999
Presentation: "Psychiatric Malpractice" to the Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, at the hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1999
Presentation: "Treatment of Agitation in Dementia" to clinical staff of 15 Detroit area nursing homes, Fusions Restaurant, Farmington Hills, Michigan, June 1999
Presentation: "Violence and Clinician Safety," Center for Forensic Psychiatry, May 1997
Presentation: "Dementia and Depression in the Elderly" at Mary Schieve, J.D.’s Course on Elderly Law, Eastern Michigan University, April 1997
Presentation: "Treating Agitation and Depression in Dementia" at National Council on the Aging Convention (NCOA), Chicago, Illinois, March 1997
Presentation: "Testamentary Capacity and Capacity to Contract" to Washtenaw County Bar Association, January 1997
Presentation: "Geriatric Psychiatry Overview" at Joel Welber, J.D.’s Business Law Course, Eastern Michigan University, January 1997
Presentation: "Treating Dementia: How Lawyers Can Help" to Washtenaw County Bar Association, December 1996
Presentation: "Violence and Clinician Safety" at Michigan State Medical Society Convention, November 1996
Presentation: "Geriatric Murderers" at American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1996
Presentation: Competency to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility, Forensic Psychiatry Seminar at Clinton Valley Center, Pontiac, Michigan, October, 1996.
Presentation: "Civil Commitment," to Core Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents at University of Michigan Hospital, July 1996
Presentation: "Geriatric Murderers," Part of University of Michigan/Center for Forensic Psychiatry Joint Symposium on Forensic Psychiatry at American Psychiatric Association Convention, New York, New York, May 1996
Media Experience
Panelist on Sutter Presents television show on "Stress, Anxiety and Depression" to be shown on KPIX Channel 5 (CBS affiliate) in San Francisco on April 15, 2003, and rerun again on Channel 5, and also to be shown twice in Sacramento
Interviewee on Geriatric Psychiatry, Ted Heusel Show, WAAM Radio, Ann Arbor, Michigan, monthly, July 1996-September 2001
Participant in two-part series on ECT, WJBK, TV-2, Detroit, Michigan, July 1995
Interviewee on Domestic Violence, Mark Avery Show, WAAM Radio, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1993
Panelist - The Messiah Complex, Kelly and Company, WXYZ-TV, Detroit, Michigan, May 1993
Hospital Practice Responsibilities
Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, from 2008
Chairman of the Infection Control Committee, Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, from 2008
Member, Forensic Product Line Committee, State of Ohio Department of Mental Health, beginning April 2004
Member, Medical Staff Executive Committee, Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, beginning March 2004
Executive Medical Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Program at St. Luke’s Hospital, 3555 Army Street, San Francisco, California 94110, January 2002 to September 2003
Member, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, St. Luke’s Hospital, San Francisco, California, May 2002 and onward
Member, Executive Committee of Medical Professional Staff Organization, Center for Forensic Psychiatry, 1994 to 1996
President-Elect, Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, 1999, 2000
President, Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, 1990, 1986, 1985, 1982
Chairman, E.C.T. Committee, Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, 1987 to 1989
Board Member, Huron Valley Physician Association (IPA of Local HMO), 1984
Chairman, Credentials Committee, Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, 1983 to 1984
Chairman, Utilization Review Committee, Department of Psychiatry, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, 1981
Professional Organization Activities
Member, Ohio Psychiatric Association, starting January 30, 2005
Editor, Northern California Psychiatric Society Newsletter, San Francisco, California, beginning summer, 2003 to March 2004
Member, Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee for California, beginning 2003 to 2004
Member, Program Committee of American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, term to run 2003 to 2005
Member, Cal. Medical Association, beginning 2003 to 2004
Member, Public Policy Committee of American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrist, from 2002 to 2004
Member, National Association of Managed Care Physicians, 2002
Member, Psychiatric Practice Committee, Northern California Psychiatric Society, 2002 to 2004
Member, Psychiatric Planning Committee, San Francisco Medical Society, San Francisco, California in 2003
Member, HIPAA Advisory Committee for HIPAA Implementation for the State of California, appointed by Burt R. Cohen, Director of California Office of HIPAA Implementation, at the recommendation of the California Psychiatric Association, 2003 to 2004
Member, Northern California Psychiatric Society, 2002 to 2004
Member, California Psychiatric Association, 2002 to 2004
Member, San Francisco Psychiatric Society, 2002 to 2004
Member, Committee on Aging, Michigan State Medical Society, 2001 to 2002
Member, Addictions Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 2001
Chairman, Geriatric Psychiatry Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 2000 to 2002
Member, Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee for the State of Michigan, representing Michigan Psychiatric Society, 2000 to 2001
Member, American Psychiatric Association Medicare Advisory Committee, 2000
Member, Continuing Medical Education Committee, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrists, 2000 to 2002
Member, Public Policy Committee, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrists, 2000
Elected Councilor, Michigan Psychiatric Society, to a two-year term, starting May, 1999
Member, Geriatric Psychiatry Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 1998 to 2004
Member, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrists, 1997 to 2000
Member, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 1995 to Present
Member, Ethics Committee, Michigan Psychiatric Society, 1993 to 2000
Member, American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 1991 to Present
Member, American Psychiatric Association, 1975 to Present
Member, Michigan Psychiatric Society, 1975 to 2001
Member, Michigan State Medical Society, 1975 to 2001
Member, Washtenaw County Medical Society, 1975 to 2001
Major Meetings Recently Attended
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, October, 2008, Seattle, Washington
University of Arizona 16th Annual Psychopharmacology Review Course, February 19-23, 2007, Tucson, Arizona
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 2006
11th Annual Psychopharmacology Update, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2006
The Sanity Defense and Report Writing presented by the Ohio Directors of Forensic Centers, Columbus, Ohio, June 2005
Steven Stahl, MD,’s Two Day Psychopharmacology Academy, Cleveland, Ohio, April 30, May 1, 2005
10th Annual Psychopharmacology Update presented by the American Psychiatric Association and the Nevada Psychiatric Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2005
Child-Murder by Parents and Insanity, presented by Phillip Resnick, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Grand Rounds at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare, Columbus, Ohio, January 10, 2005
Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Conference: Keeping the Focus on Consumers and Families, Columbus, Ohio, September 2004
Forensic Issues, Updates and Evaluations, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Columbus, Ohio, June 2004
Geriatric Psychiatry Review Course, American Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry, Baltimore, Maryland, February 2004
American Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry National Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2003
Psychopharmacology Academy, two-day symposium by Stephen Stahl M.D. sponsored by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine at San Francisco, California, November 2002
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law National Meeting, Newport Beach, California, October 2002, including the Forensic Psychiatry Review Course given by Philip Resnick, M.D.
Medical Directors Training Seminar, sponsored by National Association of Managed Care Physicians, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 19 to June 23, 2002
Scientific Meeting of Northern California Psychiatric Society, Sonoma, California, April 2002
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2001
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry National Meeting, San Francisco, California 2001
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrists National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, December 2000
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law National Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2000
American Psychiatric Association National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 2000
American Psychiatric Association National Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 1999
Midwest Aggression Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 1999
Midwest American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 1999
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1999
Tri-State American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Meeting, ("Sex, Psychiatry and the Law"), New York, New York, January 1999
American Association of Psychiatry and the Law National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1998
Publications
Article entitled "Nursing Home Suits on the Rise" in American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter, 2002
Article entitled "Late Onset Delusional Disorder Leads to Slaying of Famous Physician," in American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Newsletter, September 2000
Four-part article on "PTSD in Court," in Res Ipsa Loquitur, Bar Journal of Washtenaw County, Michigan, July through November 1995
Civic Activities
Elected member of the Barton Hills Village (Michigan) Maintenance Corporation, 3-year term starting June 1, 1995