Expert Details

Adult Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry

ID: 726806 Hawaii, USA

Expert is board certified in general adult psychiatry, child psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was trained in Psychiatric and completed a child psychiatric fellowship in Maine before moving to Hawaii to complete a second, post-graduate fellowship in child psychiatry. Before starting his own private practice in psychiatry, he was a Clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at his affiliated institution. His professional career experiences include being an Attending psychiatrist for six years, Child psychiatric consultant for four years, Program psychiatrist and a general adult Psychiatric consultant for another four years at seven different children and psychiatric hospitals.

He has been in private practice in Honolulu for 30 years. Currently he has an outpatient practice with adults, adolescents, and children. His forensic experience has been entirely in the civil branch, i.e. medical malpractice and tort--both for plaintiffs and defense, but the vast majority [3,000+ cases] have been in the workers' compensation and long-term psychiatric disability arenas.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1975	Degree: MD	Subject: Medicine	Institution: Washington University School of Medicine
Year: 1971	Degree: A.B.	Subject: Psychology	Institution: Dartmouth

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1980 to 2009	Employer: Mark Dillen Stitham Ltd	Title: President	Department:
Responsibilities: He is the sole employee of this professional service corporation and works as a psychiatrist

Government Experience

Years	Agency	Role	Description
Years: 1980 to 1985	Agency: State of Hawaii Dept. of Health	Role: Child Psychiatric Consultant	Description: Child Psychiatrist for three community mental health centers

International Experience

Years	Country / Region	Summary
Years: 2000 to 2000	Country / Region: Pohnpei	Summary: tort case expert witness Mobil Oil Co.
Years: 2001 to 2001	Country / Region: Saipan	Summary: tort case expert witness Mobil Oil Co.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American Medical Association American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Hawaii Medical Association

Licenses / Certifications
MD Hawaii and Maine

Professional Appointments
Past president of Hawaii Psychiatric Society

Awards / Recognition
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

Medical / Professional
He completed a Psychiatric residency in 1978 and a Child psychiatry fellowship in 1979 at the Maine Medical Center. In 1980 he completed a Child psychiatry fellowship at the University of Hawaii.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert has 25 year-plus and approximately 3,000 cases in the civil side of forensic psychiatry. He has been accepted as an expert in the field of psychiatry in the several times he has testified for court or the department of labor.

Training / Seminars
Annual attendee at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law courses.

Fields of Expertise

adult psychiatry, clinical psychology, disability, disability assessment, forensic psychiatry, impairment, malingering, mental health, brain injury, private practice psychiatry, psychiatry, psychiatric status rating scales, phobia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, compulsive personality disorder, schizophrenia, psychopharmacology, behavioral problem, child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology, Munchausen's syndrome, borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, antisocial personality disorder, personality disorder, panic disorder, mood disorder, factitious disorder, depressive disorder, cognitive disorder, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, antipsychotic drug, seasonal affective disorder, sleep, disease, insomnia, sleep disorder treatment, mental disorder, sleep disorder, nervous system disease