Board Certified Forensic Psychiatry Expert Witness

Diplomate in Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry

After completing medical school, psychiatric residency and one year as an auditor at University of California School of Law (Berkeley), Expert Witness No. 2102 has focused at least one half of his practice on the specialty of Forensic Psychiatry. Thirty years and approximately 5,000 cases later he has consulted for attorneys, employers and judges about issues involving disability, risk and threat of violence (at the workplace or in society), malpractice, testamentary capacity, emotional distress, the effects of undue influence, need for treatment, addiction, competency, insanity and diminished capacity. He has qualified in court as a psychiatric expert in the areas of Forensic Psychiatry concerned with personal injury, toxic torts, product liability, breach of contract, traumatic brain injury, sexual assault (adults and children), intentional infliction of emotional distress, testamentary capacity, undue influence, ADA, harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination, workers' compensation, temporary and permanent disability, and psychiatric aspects of criminal law. He has taught attorneys about the direct and cross-examination of expert witnesses and assisted them with this on a case-by- case basis. His best estimate is that he has testified more than 150 times and been deposed more than 500 times. Because of his extensive diagnostic experience, he is considered expert in this aspect of psychiatry.

Expert Witness No. 2102 also has an active clinical practice where he treats patients as well as having been a member of the clinical faculty at UCSF Medical School, where he was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. He taught about psychiatric aspects of chronic pain and disability, psychosomatic medicine, stress causing physical illness, malingering, and the role of the psychiatrist in the litigation process, medical ethics, and supervised residents about on-going therapy cases they were treating.

LICENSES

1969 to present, State of California

1989 to present, State of Alaska

EDUCATION

1958-1959, University of Chicago

1959-1962, University of California, Berkeley, California, A. B. Physiology

1962-1966, The Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, M.D.

1966-1967, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, Medical Internship

1967-1968, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, 1st year Psychiatric Residency

1968-1969, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, California, 2nd year Residency

1970-1971, Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California, 3rd year Psychiatric Residency

1971-1972, Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California, 4th year Psychiatric Residency

1971-1972, University of California, Berkeley, California, Boalt Hall, School of Law, Full time auditor

1977, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Diplomate in Psychiatry

1994 Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1972-1983, Herrick Hospital Psychiatric Residency Instructor, Training Program

1974-1980, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Instructor, Psychiatry

1980-2001, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry

1983-2001, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor, Orthopedic Surgery

1985-2000, Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy Hastings College of Law Faculty

CONSULTING POSITIONS

1970-1971, Headquarters 5th United States Army:
Psychiatric consultant to the Surgeon of the 5th United States Army

Psychiatric Liaison to Judge Advocate General, 5th United States Army
Examiner for prospective West Point Cadets

Acting Chief, Office of Physical Standards

1971-1974, Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California
Psychiatric consultant - Neurological Rehabilitation Unit

1972 to Present, Consultant on case by case basis to various Workers' Compensation insurance companies, defense firms and applicant's firms.

1976-1980, Alameda County Personnel Department Includes second opinions for Sheriff's Department

1978-1987, Administrative Law Judges of Social Security Administration

1979 to present, U. S. Dept of Labor, Independent Medical Examiner, Longshoreman's and Harbor Act

1979-1993, Independent Medical Examiner, State of California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

1993 Qualified Medical Examiner, State of California Department of Industrial Relations

1993 to present, Senior consultant, Work Trauma Services, San Francisco

1994 to present, Senior consultant, United States Postal Service, Threat Assessment Team

Various
Public Defenders: Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Mendocino, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey and Solano, California; Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska

District Attorneys: Counties of Del Norte, Mendocino, Amador, Yolo, California; Anchorage, Alaska

United States Attorney in California and Alaska

U.S. Department of Justice

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

1972-1975, American Medical Association (voluntary withdrawal)

1989 to present, American Medical Association

1972-1975, California Medical Association (voluntary withdrawal)

1989 to present, California Medical Association

1972 to present, American Psychiatric Association and Northern California Psychiatric Society

1984 to present, American Academy Psychiatry and Law

1994 to present, California Academy of Medicine

1998 to 2004, Fellow, Royal College of Medicine (Member, forensic psychiatry committee)

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES

1973 to 1990, Chairman, Committee on Informed Consent.
In 1978, this committee merged into Committee on Psychiatry and Law

1976-1987, Task Force about the Role of the Psychiatrist in the criminal law process

1983-1986, Education Committee, Northern California Psychiatric Society

1991 to 1995, Medical Staff Assistance Committee, Impaired Physician Committee, Samuel Merritt Hospital

1994-1995, Medical Board of California, Board of Podiatric Medicine, Podiatry Diversion Evaluation Committee

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

1972-1977, Herrick Hospital and Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California

1977 -2002, Summit Medical Center, Oakland, California; previously Merritt Hospital and Providence Hospital

2002, Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital, Kentfield, California

PRESENTATIONS

Available upon Request.

KEYWORDS

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