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Psychiatry, Addictive Disease, Public Health, Aviation Psychiatry

ID: 726652 Rhode Island, USA

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Dr. is board certified in general, addiction, and forensic psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology. Expert received his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1988, his Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology in 1991 and his M.B.A in 2006. He completed his internship in general psychiatry and medicine in 1989 and resident training in general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry in 1993. He completed additional fellowship training in law and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in 1995.

He is certified as a National Provider Identifer and as an Aviation Medical Examiner by the Federal Aviation Administration. He has a controlled substances registration in the state of Massachusetts and has a medical license in 5 states.

He has over 20 years of experience in the field of technology as an educational counselor and over 10 years of experience as a psychiatric consultant for various disability determination services. His expertise also includes over 10 years of experience as a medical director and expert consultant in the field of psychiatry and addiction medicine.

Dr. is an officer of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Co-Chair of the American Medical Association's Task Force on Alcohol, and is the first addiction medicine specialist to have been elected to the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health. He represents the American Society of Addiction Medicine within the AMA's House of Delegates.

He has been an expert witness on over 30 different cases in the state of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and various other individual cases serving as a psychiatric consultant on disability determination services, medical expert on psychiatry and addiction medicine cases, expert consultation on medical conduct and various other medical and psychiatric issues.

His expertise extends into various aspects of general medical psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry including the administration aspect, technological and production aspect of numerous medical corporations (including several online and media positions), and providing service management consultation for several medical agencies. He is also an educator and instructor in Psychiatry at several prestigious medical schools such as Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. He is also an advisor for several medical forums and committees on issues concerning quality assurance, health strategies, and psychiatric care management.

ADDICTION: Dr.'s expertise in addiction include alcoholism, nicotine dependency, substance abuse and addiction treatment, substance use disorders, addiction prevention, and addiction trends. He is also knowledgeable in the pharmaceutical and psychopharmacology aspect of addiction. He has observed and analyzed behaviors involved in addiction.

Dr. currently serves as a Federal Air Surgeon Consultant for the Federal Aviation AdministrationExpert currently serves as an Expert Consultant for the NY State Board for Professional Medical ConductExpert currently serves as a Psychiatric Consultant for the Rhode Island Disability Determination Services, Massachusetts Disability Determination Services. She has also served as a Psychiatric Consultant for the following organizations: New England Telephone/NYNEX/Bell Atlantic, Noddle's Island Multi-Service Agency and Pennsylvania Bureau of Disability Determination

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2006 Degree: MBA Subject: Marketing, Finance Institution: University of Rhode Island
Year: 1991 Degree: MPH Subject: Epidemiology Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Year: 1988 Degree: MD Subject: Medicine Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Year: 1984 Degree: BS Subject: Life Sciences Institution: MIT

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1991 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Physician Department:
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Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
As a forensic psychiatrist, Expert participates actively as an expert for the Social Security Administration's Office of Adjudication & Review, testifying in over 200 cases each year. Expert also serves as a medical expert consultant to the Federal Air Surgeon, testifying frequently for the Federal Aviation Administration. Expert also performs general psychiatry testimony for addiction-related cases at both the state and federal level.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
AMA, ASAM, APA
Licenses / Certifications
Medical License - MA/CO/RI/NY/PA

Aviation Medical Examiner - FAA
Awards / Recognition
Expert recieved the International Health and Medical Media Award in 2008.
Publications and Patents Summary
Expert wrote one of the leading texts in the field of addiction medicine, has contributed chapters to multiple texts in addiction, and writes a regular column for Counselor.

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