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Expert is a President Emeritus and University Professor, with 40+ years of experience in Health Sciences Education, Research and Services, and Progressive Leadership. He received his BA in Anthropology from Yale, his MD from Iowa, and completed internships, residency and fellowships at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He also received a diploma on Mental Health Leadership and Management from Case Western, and his PhD in Biological Anthropology from Cambridge.

RESEARCH
Expert has 350+ formal scholarly communications, including more than 100 refereed reports, chapters or other submissions and in excess of 100 abstracts or presentations at regional, national, and international meetings. He has been invited to lecture at more than 200 universities or professional societies around the world; e.g., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Max Planck Institute, APA, WPA and ACNP. In addition, he has more than 200 less formal articles, book reviews, newspaper reports, etc., and some 200 other presentations such as Grand Rounds not tabulated. PI on more than 40 grants and Co-I or Consultant on some 50 other studies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BOSTON - Directed Neuropsychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1987-92 managing a staff of 30 professionals and a budget of $6M.

OHIO - From 1994 to 2000, served as Medical Director of the largest state hospital in Ohio, managing some 600 employees with a budget of $35M and helped bring the hospital from JCAHO ‘receivership’ to designation by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as the ‘Best Psychiatric Facility in Ohio’, while ensuring legislative support for a $60M replacement facility.

From 1998-2000, also served as Medical Director of Inpatient Services in a statewide Integrated Health System spanning nine sites and overseeing a multidisciplinary staff of some 1300 and a budget of some $100M.
As Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the University of Cincinnati Institute for Medicine and Law established a highly successful Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry, was active in a broad range of teaching as well as research programs including clinical trials in mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders as well as anthropological genetics of psychopathology.

State University initiatives fostered in multi-disciplinary training and research (Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, Pharmacy and OT) that won three major national awards.

NEBRASKA - Rapidly moved Creighton Psychiatry, amid complex changes and parlous circumstances throughout the region and state, from an exceedingly fragile situation to regional leadership and national esteem via diverse training and research collaborations across a wide range pf universities, hospitals and health systems.
Clinical service rose 6-fold and research rapidly increased – from zero dollars in 2001 to more than $17M total funded by NIH, NIDA, CDC, VA, and industry.

The Department established new Fellowships in Addictions and Pediatrics-to-Psychiatry, launched new basic science, translational, and clinical programs in Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology, Psychiatric Anthropology as well as a Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Program in Medicine and Law.
Emphasized expansion of multi-disciplinary clinician, educator and research faculty; sustained strong stakeholder rapport, including media and government; well mentored many new young investigators on to NIH, NIDA, VA, Fulbright & other federal awards in burgeoning research and clinical trials.

Served as a key leader in strategic realignment of Creighton Medical Associates ($120M annual revenue) and subsequent merger of Creighton University Health Center with Alegent Health (now CHI).

Interfaculty initiatives across the university were broadly engaged – in medical anthropology, forensic medicine, and interdisciplinary education as well as advancement of School and University research, curriculum planning, and community outreach. Helped launch a new Clinical and Translational Sciences Center, an MS degree in Translational Science and BA and MA degrees in Medical Anthropology.

Served as one of three key leaders in the establishment of a new Creighton Medical School Campus in Arizona partnered with Saint Joseph Hospital and the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.

Oversaw programs with the University of Nebraska Medical Center including joint training programs and statewide initiatives.

Actively engaged in health reform with service on Gubernatorial, Legislative and US Senate Commissions, as well as a $40 million major private-public-university and philanthropic collaboration for a new Nebraska Center for Behavioral Health and Statewide Training Program.

Pioneered programs in Evolutionary Neuroscience as Founding Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Evolutionary Psychiatry and as President of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. Established and chaired the World Psychiatric Association Section on Psychotherapy for six years.

FLORIDA - Vice President for Health Affairs of the University of Florida Health Science Center and Dean of the College of Medicine in Jacksonville. Supervised academic, clinical, and research activities in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

As Chair of the Executive Management Group (with the hospital CEO as Co-chair), managed a major academic health center with a 695-bed teaching hospital with a combined budget of $800M and nearly 6,000 employees, including a 750 faculty and resident practice spanning more than 50 sites in Florida and Georgia.

Other initiatives include a $200M new UF Health North campus near the Jacksonville Airport as well as expanding links especially for teaching and research but also institutional advancement, public policy, and economic growth via development of bioscientific enterprise in Jacksonville and the region.

CALIFORNIA and OREGON – Presided over one of the most comprehensive health sciences education institutions in the United States. Nine all-graduate colleges including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, podiatry, health professions, and biomedical sciences spanning two campuses in California and Oregon with some 4,000 students studying 26-degree programs taught by more than 350 faculty and 700 staff with a total budget of $240,00,000.

Managed the pandemic adroitly with record enrollments, budget surpluses and achieved the longest possible affirmation of accreditation with all colleges also fully accredited by their professional bodies. Sustained recognition as one of “America’s Best Colleges to Work For” over ten years.
Institutional endowment and net assets both doubled, the bond rating increased two levels to achieve the highest possible US Department of Education fiscal accountability score.

Opened multiple new programs in California as well as a new Health Sciences College in Oregon (DPT and DOT), forged a Strategic Alliance with Claremont Graduate University, and now continue to foster a wide range of WesternU international collaborations in health education and health systems development.