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


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