EW #377 MD, has twenty-five years of service as a distinguished patient care-focused clinician and as senior clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is co-Director of the Program in Psychiatry & the Law, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Principal Mentor for students at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous articles in leading medical and psychiatric journals, as well as of books praised by reviewers in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Psychiatry. At Harvard Medical School he serves as faculty for the Intensive Diagnostic Interviewing preparatory course for the national board examinations in psychiatry and neurology, teaching the process of differential diagnosis. He acts as a peer reviewer both for medical journals and in providing second medical opinions. His clinical and consultative practice includes being a doctors doctor, and forensically he has served as an advisory panel member on standards of reliability for expert testimony in medicine and mental health. He teaches, consults, and publishes concerning neuropsychiatric diagnosis and forensic psychiatric evaluation of psychiatric and medical malpractice claims, as well as about informed consent and decision making in the physician-patient relationship.
Hisclinical, teaching, and forensic experience includes neuropsychiatric evaluation of standards of care in psychiatric and medical practice, maintenance of appropriate professional boundaries and ethics, brain injury, pain and addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the reasonableness of employment-related accommodations, criminal responsibility and diminished capacity (including mitigation in sentencing, as in death penalty cases), the adequacy of informed consent and standards for experts in pharmaceutical product liability cases, the role of the physician and the patients assumption of risk in addiction to prescribed medications, specific areas of competence evaluation (e.g., to stand trial or to dispose of property), differentiating neuropsychiatric impairments from misattribution and malingering, and differentiating reasonable perceptions from motivationally biased attributions of harassment and discrimination.
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION 1968 Diploma, Eastside High School, Paterson, NJ 1972 A.B. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 1977 M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING Internships and Residencies: 1977-1978 Resident in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center 1979-1982 Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center 1981-1982 Chief Resident, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Fellowships and Other Education: (abridged) 1975-1976 Special Fellow, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 1978-1980 Research Fellow, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School 1979-1982Fellow, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 1989 Advanced Candidate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
CERTIFICATIONS 1984 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 1994 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry 2001 National Institute of Health, Office of Human Subjects Research course certification for Protection of Human Research Subjects 2001 Medical Care Ombudsman, Medical Care Management Corporation (expert, objective and independent review in cases of informed medical decisions in all domains of medicine)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1982-1984 Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 1984-1990 Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 1990- Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS1978-1979 Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, MA 1979-1982 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 1982-1986 Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead, NH 1985- Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA 1986- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA 1989- Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA
OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND MAJOR VISITING APPOINTMENTS (abridged 1968-1972 Health Consultant, Model Cities Program, Paterson, NJ 1978-1979 Acting Medical Director, Concord Unit, Metropolitan State Hospital 1983- Co-Director, Program in Psychiatry and the Law of Harvard Medical School Department at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center 1985 (July) Acting Medical Director, Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead, NH 1994- Consultant, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 1994- Consulting Expert, United States Department of Justice 1994- Consulting Expert, Israeli Ministry of Health 2000- Presidential Campaign Consultant on United States Health Care
AWARDS AND HONORS (abridged) 1968-1972 University Scholar, Princeton University 1972 Phi Beta Kappa 1972 magna cum laude, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University 1977 cum laude Honors Thesis, Harvard Medical School 1981 Co-winner, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center 1983 Second Place, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center 1998 Honorary mention, Article: "Medical Negligence and Informed Consent in the Managed Care Era," The American College of Physician Executives 2002: Nominated as Candidate for President of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association by Harvard Medical School Alumni 2002: Twenty-Five Year Harvard University Recognition Award 2003- Harvard Medical School Alumni Council Representative to Harvard University Alumni Board of Directors 2004- Principal Student Faculty Mentor, Harvard Medical School
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS (abridged) 1972-1977 Recruiter, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, Harvard Medical School 1974-1976 Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee II, student member 1982-1986 Hampstead Hospital, Peer Review Committee 1984 International Advisory Committee, International Congress on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Israel 1988- Campaign for the Third Century Committee, Harvard Medical School 1988-1989 Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee II, faculty member 1988-1989 Ethics Committee, Mount Auburn Hospital 1990- Massachusetts Board of Registration, Medicine, Consultant and Supervisor 1996- Rappeport Fellowship Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law 1997- Subtaskforce on Competency to Stand Trial, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1998- Advisory and Expert Panel Member, State Justice Institute (SJI) Benchbook Project on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence. American Bar Association 1999- Advisory Board, The International Center for Health Concerns 1999- Gender Issues Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law 2000-2001 Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion. Scientific Symposium Committee, Reunion Committee, & Reunion Gift Committee 2000- Harvard Medical School Dean's Council Member 2000- Program Standards Committee (PSC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)Human Research Protection Accreditation Program (VAHRPAP), National Committee for Quality Assurance
MEMBERSHIPS, OFFICES, AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS IN SOCIETIES (abridged) 1980- American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1981- American Society of Law and Medicine 1981- American Psychiatric Association 1984- American Psychoanalytic Association 1990-1997 The Academy of Experts, London, England 1994- American Academy of Forensic Sciences 1995-1998 American College of Physician Executives 1997- American Hospital Association Risk Management section 2000- Flaschner Judicial Institute Scientific Advisory Panel
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (summary) Founder, director, and faculty of a series of Harvard CME risk management courses. Founder and faculty of Harvard University House Seminar on Ethics and Medicine. Hospital Grand Rounds presentations and training programs on clinical ethics and risk management. Principal Mentor for students at Harvard Medical School. |
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