Expert No. 159155 – Medical Expert – CA(N)
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Expertise Description: M.D. - Has practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry for more than 35 years and is Board-Certified, Diplomate in Psychiatry as well as in Forensic Psychiatry. Has presented his expert medical opinion in over 5,000 cases in Federal, State, and Administrative jurisdictions, and to employers nationwide. Has testified in approximately 150 trials and 500 depositions. In his teaching career, expert has been Assistant Clinical Professor at U.C. San Francisco Medical School with special emphasis on the psychiatric aspects of Chronic Pain, as well as Clinical Psychiatry for more than 25 years. For more than 10 years has taught attorneys at San Francisco's Hastings Law School Post-Graduate Program on Trial and Appellate Advocacy on the examination and cross-examination of expert witnesses. Special areas of expertise are PTSD, the evaluation of Emotional Distress, Diminished Capacity, TBI, Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence, and Employment Litigation. User-friendly testimony and thorough, accessible reports, based on skilled synthesis of IMEs, medical records review, are the basis of this expert's reputation. In addition expert's knowledge of legal issues the psychiatrist must address and answer (such as in Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts, FMLA, and the ADA) are useful in lawsuits involving issues of harassment, discrimination, and employment law. Has conducted thousands of Fitness for Duty and Threat or Risk of Violence Assessments.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Undue influence claim where testator was suffering toxic organ failure at time of change in estate plan
- IMEs of a community exposed to toxins, emotional distress
- Issues of impaired psychiatric functioning in criminal case
- Emotional distress in bad faith insurance case where insureds were denied coverage
- Veteran suffering PTSD committed suicide, issue of causation
- Assessing emotional distress of individual in vehicle accident fatal to individual's spouse
- PI mva assessment and issue of schizophrenia or brain damage and issues of causation
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Hospice by the Bay, Psychiatric COnsultant
- Senior consultant, Work Trauma Services, San Francisco
- U.S. Dept. of Labor, Independent Medical Examiner, Longshoreman's and Harbor Act
- Consultant on case-by-case basis to defense firms, plaintiff's firms and Applicant's firms, and insurance companies (including Worker's Compensation)
- Qualified Medical Examiner, State of California Department of Industrial Relations
- Consultant, United States Postal Service Threat Assessment Team, Oakland, California
- Independent Medical Examiner, State of California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
- Administrative Law Judges of Social Security Administration
- Alameda County Personnel Department. Includes second opinions for Sheriff's Department
- Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California, Psychiatric consultant - Neurological Rehabilitation Unit
- Headquarters 5th United State Army: Psychiatric consultant to the Surgeon of the 5th United States Army, Psychiatric Liaison to the Judge Advocate General
Licenses & Certifications:
| American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Diplomate in Psychiatry |
| American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Diplomate in Forensic Psychiatry |
| Qualified Medical Examiner (QME), State of California |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.B. | Physiology | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Doctor of Medicine | Chicago Medical School |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois Medical Internship
- University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio 1st year Psychiatric Residency
- Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 2nd year Residency
- Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, California, 3rd and 4th year Psychiatric Residency
- Auditor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
- Warbritton & Associates Impairment Rating System (WAIRS), Worker's COmpensation Assessment/Evaluations, AMEm PQME
- American Medical Association
- California Medical Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- Northern California Psychiatric Society
- American Academy Psychiatry and Law
- California Academy of Medicine
- Fellow, Royal College of Medicine
- California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery (CSIMS)
Other Career Highlights:
| Featured Speaker "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Stress Response Syndromes" |
| Featured Speaker, "Fitness for Duty and Employment Law Seminar" |
| "Threat Assessment in the Workplace" for Regional Medical Unit Personnel |
