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Brief Bio.
1. Full-time Private Practice of Psychiatry: (Adult, Child/Adolescent, Forensic and Psychoanalysis)

2. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA (Faculty since 1971 supervising residents, child fellows and teaching psychotherapy and ethics, primarily)

3. Senior Faculty LA Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Teaching: 1981-2002 Director of LAPSI Psychotherapy Program: 1995-98.

4. Senior Faculty: Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy. (Teaching: Divorce, Ethics, Violence, Clinical case presentations and supervising students; since 1978 to present) Member of the Board of Directors 1978-92, 2002-

5. Psychiatric expert for the Medical Board of California. (Since 1978 involved in evaluation of accused physicians, supervising physicians' clinical work while under probation, expert evaluations re psychiatric competence and standard of care, specific consultations to Board and AG re sexual misconduct cases and rehabilitation possibility of involved physicians.)

6. Psychiatric Peer Reviewer for the Medicare Program for California Medical Review since 1980: Reviewing consumer complaints regarding psychiatric care and reviewing in-patient and outpatient psychiatric care under the Medicare program.

7. Medical Education Speakers Network: Lecturer in psychiatric ethics, sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, confidentiality, medical-psychiatric records and the EMR, Malpractice Prevention Principles for Physicians in Managed Care Settings.

Brief CV
I) Certification:
Certified in Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry

(II) Practice:
Full time private practice in Child, Adolescent, Adult Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychiatry

(III) Teaching:
UCLA School of Medicine: Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Los Angles Psychoanalytic Institute: Senior Faculty & Director Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program 1981-2002
Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy: Senior Faculty & Member of the Board of Directors
Expert Consultant Medical Board of California 1978-
Special interest in teaching psychiatric ethics since 1978. Member of Medical Education Speakers Network, Inc. >

(IV) Southern California Psychiatric Society Activities:
Active in SCPS since 1970, served in all elected offices including President,1989-90; pioneered ethics procedures and ethics education as SCPS Ethics Chair, 1977-86, served as SCPS APA Assembly Rep, 1978-79, 1983-84 and 1990-94; SCPS State Legislative Rep, 1990-94.

(V) California Psychiatric Association Activities:
CPA representative to the California Council on Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Nursing; Chair, 1991 CPA Annual Program Committee; Member, Government Affairs Committee; Area VI Representative to the APA Joint Commission on Public Affairs, 1993-98.

(VI) California Senate Activities:
Member of the Task Force on Psychotherapist-Patient Sexual Relations, 1986-87; (helped draft the California sexual misconduct and patient information laws).

(VII) APA Activities:
Served in Membership, Ethics, Sexual Abuse and Family Violence and Program Committees. Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee on the Education of Psychiatrists on Ethical Issues (1989-91), (I helped develop APA's videotape on the problem of Reporting Sexual Misconduct); JCPA Area VI Rep, APA Trustee-at-Large, 1994-97; Board Liaison: Council on Economic Affairs, Practice Guidelines and to Develop Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Organized Settings; APA Treasurer, 1998-2000;Investment Oversight Committee, Chair:2000-03; Budget and Finance & Long Range Planning Committees: 2000-03.

(VIII) Hellenic American Psychiatric Association (HAPA)
1998-1999, Chaired the HAPA Organizing Committee. The founding of HAPA occurred in association with the APA Annual meeting on 5/15/99.

1999-2002, Founding President HAPA, Membership in HAPA is open to psychiatrists of Greek origin or who are identified with the Hellenic heritage, who are members of APA, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Hellenic Psychiatric Association or other comparable psychiatric associations in countries other than the US or Canada.

(IX) Community Activities:
Since 1990, Founder and President of the non-profit (SCPS sponsored) Psychiatric Education and Research Foundation (PER), dedicated to building bridges of understanding between psychiatry and the public through education, research and community action. PER is the founding sponsor of the NAMI "Family to Family" Education Program in California.

(XI) Honors:
American Psychiatric Association: Distinguist Life Fellow
American College of Psychiatrists: Fellow
Outstanding Young Woman of America 1971
Teacher of the Year Award (L.A. Institute) 1986
SCPS Appreciation Awards: for ethics 1986, for state legislative rep 1991.
SCPS Distinguished Service Award 1992
APA/JCPA Public Affairs Network Awards 1994 and 1995.
Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, MD Visiting Professorship at the University of Oklahoma, Department of Psychiatry, Oklahoma City OK: April 2002.