Expert Details

Psychiatry

ID: 727065 Florida, USA

Expert is a board certified psychiatrist and licensed healthcare risk manager making him uniquely qualified to assess and opine on issues of civil forensic psychiatry.He has given seminars on "Risk Management for the Mental Health Professional" to large audiences.He has lectured at the Florida International University program for psychiatric nurse practitioners on issues of risk management.He has consulted with numerous law firms in cases involving allegations of psychiatric malpractice.Although not limited to this area his particular interest is in the area of suicide and assessment of suicidal risk.

Expert has consulted with legal firms,insurance carriers,U.S.government agencies,airlines,State of Florida,vocational rehabilitation and U.S.Postal Service among others.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1977	Degree: MD	Subject: Medicine	Institution: University of Louisville School of Medicine

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1981 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: President	Department: Undisclosed
Responsibilities: Available upon request.

Government Experience

Years	Agency	Role	Description
Years: 1997 to Present	Agency: Social Security Administration	Role: Medical Expert	Description: Render expert opinions on areas of psychiatric disability
Years: 1999 to 2005	Agency: Dept. of Workers' Compensation	Role: Expert Medical Advisor	Description: Opine as to questions involving workers'compensation cases

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Depositions and court testimony in malpractice and workers' compensation cases,state of Florida

Training / Seminars
"Risk Management for the Mental Health Professional"

Other Relevant Experience
general mental health risk management consultation.

Fields of Expertise

adult, commitment of mentally ill, confidentiality, duty to warn, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, malingering, malpractice claim, mental disorder, private practice psychiatry, professional malpractice, psychiatric malpractice, psychiatric trauma, psychiatry, suicide prevention, therapist patient sex, biological psychiatry, adult psychiatry