EDUCATION
Undergraduate-Bachelor's Degree-Penn State University, as part of Penn-State/Thomas Jefferson University 5- year BS/MD program.
Medical School-Basic Sciences, 1978-1980, Thomas Jefferson University (as part of 5-year BS/MD program); Clinical Sciences, 1980-1982, University of Pittsburgh (transfer).
Internship-Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA., June 1982-June 1983 (6 months of internal medicine, 6 months of general psychiatry).
Residency-Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. June 1983-June 1986. Formal training included aspects of psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, family therapy, crisis intervention, child and adolescent psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, neurobehavioral medicine, emergency psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry.
EMPLOYMENT
July 1987-December 1987
Consultant, Federal Department of Justice, Terminal Island, California.
Los Angeles County Criminal Forensic Panel.
January 1987-Present Private practice in Redondo Beach, California. Practice includes outpatient and hospital psychiatry consultation - liaison, Workers' Compensation, psychotherapy, legal psychiatry, behavioral medicine.
March 1990-June 1991
Affiliated with Western States Medical Management, defense Workers' Compensation psychiatric evaluations.
June 1991-Present
Currently active in legal psychiatry and private practice-Workers' Compensation, Independent Medical Evaluations, malpractice, behavioral therapy, catastrophic accident debriefing, desensitization, emotional damage, wills. Established five independent offices throughout Southern California.
Special areas of interest include closed head injuries and malingering.
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Psychiatry-December 1987 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Qualified Medical Examiner, July 1994.
Forensic Psychiatry-April 1996 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Special Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry. (There are fewer than a thousand psychiatrists who have met this qualification nationwide.)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Psychiatry and Law.
California Society of Industrial Medicine.
Examiner, California Board of Medical Quality Assurance.
Co-chair, Subcommittee on Medical Legal Fee Schedule Recommended Modifiers for the California Industrial Medical Council, 1996-7.