CURRICULUM VITAE
Gerald A. Shiener, M.D.
251 Merrill
Suite 230
Birmingham, Michigan 48009
Telephone - 248-645-5155
Telecopier - 248-645-2665
mailto:[email protected]
Birthdate: July 19, 1949
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Married: Karen Rosen
November 27, 1974
Children: Loren Renee David Samuel
Born February 6, 1986 Born September 12, 1987
Education:
1967-71 Wayne State University, Monteith College
Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts
Research Assistant in Psychology for Gerald Cook, Ph.D.,
Northville State Hospital and Lafayette Clinic
Research Assistant in Psychology for Gerald Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Lafayette Clinic
B. A. in Psychology
1971-75 Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Research Assistant in Psychophysiology for Norman Kagan, Ph.D.
Student Representative to Michigan State Medical Society
Summer Research Fellow, National Institute Mental Health
Vice-President, Local Chapter of the Student American Medical Association
Doctor of Medicine Degree granted by Michigan State University
Training:
1975-76 Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
9 months - Inpatient service
2 months - Neurology service
l month - Emergency psychiatry service
1976-77 Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
3 months - Emergency psychiatry service
3 months - Day Hospital service - Problems of Daily Living Clinic
5 months - Adolescent psychiatry, Lafayette Clinic
1977-78 3 months - Honorary Clinical Assistant, London Hospital
Medical College, for Professor Desmond Pond, M.D., D.P.M., F.R.C. Psych.
Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
10 months - Outpatient service
10 months - Psychogeriatric consultant to Jewish Home for the Aged, Detroit, Michigan
10 months - Liaison Consultation service for Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Department, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978 Residency in Psychiatry completed, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
Faculty Appointments:
1978- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State
University, College of Human Medicine
1978- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences,
Wayne State University, School of Medicine
1988-94 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Wayne State
University, School of Medicine
Hospital Appointments and Positions: Current
2015 Medical Director, Integrated Care, Wayne State University
University Physicians Group
2013-15 Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Sinai Grace Hospital
1999 Attending Staff, Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit
Medical Staff Executive Committee
Education Committee, Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Neurosciences
1978-99 Attending Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978-99 Attending Staff, Mount Carmel Mercy -Grace Hospital
1980- Attending Staff, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
1982-90 Psychiatric Consultant, Jewish Home for the Aged
1983- Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of
Detroit
1983-99 Psychiatric Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology Pain
Clinic, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1986- Department Psychiatrist City of Detroit Department of Police
1990 Department Psychiatrist City of Detroit Fire Department
1986-88 Director, Obsessional Disorders Treatment Unit (Anafranil Study)
1986 Electro Convulsive Treatment Committee
1986 Consultant to Sinai Hospital Hearing Impaired Psychiatric Service
1990-92 Psychiatric Consultant, State of Michigan Attorney Discipline Board
1990-93 Secretary Treasurer, Medical Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
Chairman, Credentials Committee, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1990-93 Disability Management Unit Director, Royal Macabee Life Insurance
Disability Unit
1991-93 State of Michigan, Department of Mental Health
Psychotropic Drug Use Committee
1993-96 Surveyor, Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities
1993-4 Director, Alzheimer's Research Study - Cognex Access Program,
Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1993-96 Vice Chief of Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit; Chairman, Bylaws
Committee, Sinai Hospital of Detroit Hospital Appointments: Past
1969-71 Psychiatric Technician Sinai Hospital of Detroit,
1978-81 Chief, Crisis Intervention Service, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978-81 Chief, Crisis Intervention, Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital
1981-82 Associate Chief, Day Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1982-90 Attending Staff, Kingswood Hospital, Ferndale, Michigan
1989-92 Attending Staff, Margaret Montgomery Hospital
1990-93 Pontiac General Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan
Professional Organizations:
1979- American Psychiatric Association
1979- Michigan Psychiatric Society
1979- Oakland County Medical Society
1979-80 Member, Michigan Psychiatric Society, Committee on Emergency Care
1976-77 Chairman, Michigan Psychiatric Society, Committee on Residents
1986 American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
1989 American Society of Addiction Medicine
1994 Michigan Neuropsychological Society, Lecturer
1997 Feilding Institute for Neuropsychology, Lecturer
1998 Michigan Psychiatric Society, Ethics Committee
2001 Michigan Psychiatric Society Disaster Response Coordinator and Liaison to APA
Licensure:
1976 State of Michigan
1977-78 United Kingdom
1979 State of California
Board Certification:
1980 Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1991 Certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
1994 Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Added qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry
1996 Added qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry
Added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry
2004 Recertified in Addiction Psychiatry
2006 Recertified in Geriatric Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry
2009 Added Qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine
Honors and Awards:
1977-78 Chief Resident
1978-79 Harry E. August Award for outstanding performance as a resident
1984 Outstanding Faculty Member, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1996 J. Edward Burke Award for member of the attending staff contributing the most
to house staff education
1997 Outstanding Faculty Member, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Department of Medicine
1998 J. Edward Burke Award for member of the attending staff contributing the most
to house staff education
2000 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2001 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2003 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
2006 Keynote Speaker, Wayne State University School of Medicine Baccalaureate Ceremony
Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2008 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2009 American Psychiatric Association Nancy Roeske Award For Outstanding Teaching in
Medical Student Program
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.
2011 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
Publications:
1976-77 Clinical Case Report "Pituitary Adenoma with Secondary
Hypothyroidism Presenting as Manic Depressive Psychosis"
abstracted in The Sinai Bulletin
1991 "Acute Psychoses"; "Anxiety Disorders" in The Clinical
Practice of Emergency Medicine, Harwood-Nuss, Editor. J. B.
Lippincott, New York 1990
"When the Patient Becomes Agitated: Diagnosis and Management
of the Acutely Psychotic Medical Patient" Patient Care 25:14 Sept 1991
1994 American College of Emergency Physicians Study Guide
"Psychiatric Emergencies - Acute Psychosis"
Presentations:
1985: "Management of Common Pain Syndromes"
Michigan State Medical Society Winter Meeting
1986: "Evaluation of the Acute Psychiatric Patient"
"Management of Behavioral Emergencies"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Scientific Assembly - Atlanta, Ga.
1987: "Evaluation of the Acute Psychiatric Patient"
"Management of Behavioral Emergencies"
American College of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting - San Francisco, Ca.
1988 "Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies"
"Suicide - Risk Evaluation and Management"
"Evaluation of Altered Mental Status in the Emergency Room"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Annual Meeting - New Orleans, La.
"Psychological Management of Malignant Pain" Michigan Cancer
Foundation Winter Scientific Meeting
1989: "Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Disorders"
Michigan State Medical Society Winter Meeting
1990: "Pain Patients - Evaluation and Management" Grand Rounds,
Detroit Psychiatric Institute
"Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt - Psychiatric Intervention in the
Rehabilitation of the Traumatic Brain Injured Patient"
William Beaumont Hospital Rehabilitation Conference
"Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies"
"Evaluation of Altered Mental Status in the Geriatric Patient"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Annual Meeting - San Francisco, California
"Clinical Evaluation of the Suicidal Patient"
Michigan State Medical Society - Winter Meeting
"Depression and Suicide in the Closed Head Injured Patient"
Michigan Head Injury Alliance Annual Meeting, Flint, Michigan
1991: "Psychiatry and The Law" State Bar of Michigan, Worker's
Compensation Section Winter Meeting
"Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies" American College
of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts
"Management of Pain Syndromes" Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
"Chronic Pain" Dallas - Fort Worth Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Society
1992: "Electroconvulsive Treatment in the Medically Ill Patient"
Michigan Psychiatric Society - Winter Meeting
"Dual Diagnosis in the Traumatic Brain Injured Patient"
NewMedicos Second Annual Conference on Brain Trauma Rehabilitation
1993: "Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds,
Department of Neurology Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
"Anxiety Disorders - Post Traumatic Stress Disorders and
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" Bournwood Hospital - Harvard
University, Boston, Massachusetts
"Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds, Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, Towsen, Maryland
1994: The Psychiatrist's Role in Evaluating Risk Factors for HIV Infection Wayne State
University Conference on AIDS and Mental Health
"Management of Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds, Our Lady of the
Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Post Traumatic Stress Disorders" New Orleans Psychiatric
Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995: "Addiction Treatment in Primary Care" Providence Hospital
Family Practice Department Board Review Course
"Management of Chronic Pain" Saginaw Veterans Administration
Hospital, Grand Rounds
"Drug Interactions in Antidepressant Therapy" Cleveland
Psychiatric Society, Cleveland, Ohio
1996: "Forensic Issues in Post Traumatic Stress Disorders"
Grand Rounds, State of Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Ypsilanti, Michigan
"Police Brutality and Police Suicide" Wayne State University Law School
Freshman Torts
1997: Visiting Professor Series, Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Department of Anesthesiology, “Chronic Pain,” “Addiction,” “Impaired Physicians”
Grace Hospital, Department of Medicine, Grand Rounds “Dementia and
Depression”
Feilding Institute of Postgraduate Psychological Studies, Psychopharmacology
Lecture Series
1998: “Diagnosis and Management of the Chronic Pain Patient” Michigan Society of
Anesthesiologists Annual Scientific Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury”
Michigan Neuropsychological Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Livonia,
Michigan
“Traumatic Brain Injury - Psychiatric Sequelae” Brain Injury Association Annual
Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida
1999: “Substance Abuse” Wayne State University Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Grand Rounds
2000: “Substance Abuse;” “Post Traumatic Stress Disorders” Wayne State University
School of Law
Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital Grand Rounds:
Chronic Pain
Psychogenic Polydipsia
Depot Neuroleptics
2001 “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” Wayne State University School of Law
“Chronic Pain” Wayne State University Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
“Substance Abuse;” “Post Traumatic Stress Disorders” Wayne State University
School of Law
“Treatment Resistant Depression” Grand Rounds Wayne State University
Department of Psychiatry
2004 “Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai Grace Hospital
“Obtaining High Quality Independent Medical Examinations” Association of Self
Insured Employers
2005 “Diagnosis and Treatment of Frontal Lobe Brain Injuries” North American Brain Injury Society Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida
2006 “Frontal Lobe Syndromes” North American Brain Injury Society St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York University, New York
“Attendant Care Issues in Frontal Lobe Brain Injuries” Michigan Neuropsychological
Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Michigan
“The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice” University of Detroit
Mercy Law School
2007 “The Psychiatrist Expert Witness in Health Law” Wayne State University School of Law
“The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice” University of Detroit
Mercy Law School
“Diagnosis and treatment of Depression” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai
Grace Hospital
Edward R. Heil Symposium Connecting the Mind, Body and Spirit “The Importance
of Hope in Healing” Sinai Grace Hospital - University of Detroit Mercy
Michigan Association for Justice: “Presenting Emotional Distress Damages - a
Psychiatrists Perspective”
2008 “Suicide Assessment and Prevention in Firefighters” Command Meeting, Detroit Fire
Department
“Prevention of Suicide” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Exhibitionism” Case Presentation, Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Differential Diagnosis in Major Depression with Psychosis” Case Presentation,
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences
Michigan Association for Justice: “Persistent Psychiatric Symptoms After Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury”
“Inside the Mind of an Addict” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2009 “Personality and Spirituality in Addictions” Sinai Grace Hospital, Pastoral Care Seminar
New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury 12th Annual Conference “MRI
Neuroimaging in Mild to Moderate TBI: Neuropsychological and Psychiatric
Correlates”
“Addiction as a Chronic Disease” Grand Rounds Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2009 Institute of Continuing Legal Education “How to Take a Deposition”
“Internet Addiction” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2010 “Drug Seeking Behavior” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Sinai Grace Hospital
“Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” Case Report Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Suicide” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Pedophilia” Case Report Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Psychiatric Emergencies” Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine
“Medical Malpractice, Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State University Department
of Psychiatry Academic Seminar
2010 Continued
“Competency and Insanity” Michigan Association for Justice Annual Seminar
“Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of New Mexico Kerry Tingley Hopsital
“Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain” Michigan State Medical Society Annual Scientific
Meeting. Troy, Michigan
“Erotomania and Stalking” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2011 “Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Medical Setting” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai Grace Hospital
“Medical malpractice - A Doctor’s Perspective” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine
Sinai Grace Hospital
“Forensic Aspects of Chronic Pain” Michigan Psychiatric Society Spring Scientific
Meeting, State of Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry
“Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Physician Wellness” Kent County Medical Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 Case Presentation “A Chronic Pain Patient” Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Borderline Personality Disorder” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Keynote Speech, Alpha Omega Alpha Initiation Ceremony Dinner, Wayne State
University School of Medicine
“Physician health and Physician Wellbeing” Michigan State Medical Society Leasdership
Conference
“Forensic Psychiatry” Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry Residents
Seminar
“Depression in the Medical Setting” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Sinai
Grace Hospital
2013 “Firearm Violence” Grand rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2014 “Chronic Pelvic Pain” Sinai grace Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“Forensic Psychiatry, Medical Malpractice and Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry
“Psychiatric Issues in Aging: Influence, Undue Influence and Testamentary Capacity” State Bar of Michigan Elder Law Section Annual Meeting
2015 “Conversion Disorder” Grand rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Psychiatric Issues in Aging - Competency and Guardianship” Michigan Guardianship
Association Annual Meeting, Muskegon, Michigan
“Psychiatric Issues in Endocrinology - Transgender and Morbid Obesity” Wayne State
University Department of Endocrinology Grand Rounds
“Abusive Men” Presbyterian Women of Metropolitan Detroit
“Forensic Psychiatry, Medical Malpractice and Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State
University Department of Psychiatry
Testamentary Capacity and Defending Competency” State Bar of Michigan Elder Law
Section Annual Meeting
“Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Sinai Grace Hospital Department of
Medicine
“Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity - The Criminal Justice System and the Chronic
Mentally Ill” Keynote Speaker, Association for Behavioral Health, Annual Meeting
Lansing, Michigan
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Gerald A. Shiener, M.D.
251 Merrill
Suite 230
Birmingham, Michigan 48009
Telephone - 248-645-5155
Telecopier - 248-645-2665
mailto:[email protected]
Birthdate: July 19, 1949
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Married: Karen Rosen
November 27, 1974
Children: Loren Renee David Samuel
Born February 6, 1986 Born September 12, 1987
Education:
1967-71 Wayne State University, Monteith College
Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts
Research Assistant in Psychology for Gerald Cook, Ph.D.,
Northville State Hospital and Lafayette Clinic
Research Assistant in Psychology for Gerald Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Lafayette Clinic
B. A. in Psychology
1971-75 Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Research Assistant in Psychophysiology for Norman Kagan, Ph.D.
Student Representative to Michigan State Medical Society
Summer Research Fellow, National Institute Mental Health
Vice-President, Local Chapter of the Student American Medical Association
Doctor of Medicine Degree granted by Michigan State University
Training:
1975-76 Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
9 months - Inpatient service
2 months - Neurology service
l month - Emergency psychiatry service
1976-77 Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
3 months - Emergency psychiatry service
3 months - Day Hospital service - Problems of Daily Living Clinic
5 months - Adolescent psychiatry, Lafayette Clinic
1977-78 3 months - Honorary Clinical Assistant, London Hospital
Medical College, for Professor Desmond Pond, M.D., D.P.M., F.R.C. Psych.
Resident in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
10 months - Outpatient service
10 months - Psychogeriatric consultant to Jewish Home for the Aged, Detroit, Michigan
10 months - Liaison Consultation service for Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Department, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978 Residency in Psychiatry completed, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
Faculty Appointments:
1978- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State
University, College of Human Medicine
1978- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences,
Wayne State University, School of Medicine
1988-94 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Wayne State
University, School of Medicine
Hospital Appointments and Positions: Current
2015 Medical Director, Integrated Care, Wayne State University
University Physicians Group
2013-15 Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Sinai Grace Hospital
1999 Attending Staff, Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit
Medical Staff Executive Committee
Education Committee, Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Neurosciences
1978-99 Attending Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978-99 Attending Staff, Mount Carmel Mercy -Grace Hospital
1980- Attending Staff, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
1982-90 Psychiatric Consultant, Jewish Home for the Aged
1983- Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of
Detroit
1983-99 Psychiatric Consultant, Department of Anesthesiology Pain
Clinic, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1986- Department Psychiatrist City of Detroit Department of Police
1990 Department Psychiatrist City of Detroit Fire Department
1986-88 Director, Obsessional Disorders Treatment Unit (Anafranil Study)
1986 Electro Convulsive Treatment Committee
1986 Consultant to Sinai Hospital Hearing Impaired Psychiatric Service
1990-92 Psychiatric Consultant, State of Michigan Attorney Discipline Board
1990-93 Secretary Treasurer, Medical Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
Chairman, Credentials Committee, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1990-93 Disability Management Unit Director, Royal Macabee Life Insurance
Disability Unit
1991-93 State of Michigan, Department of Mental Health
Psychotropic Drug Use Committee
1993-96 Surveyor, Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities
1993-4 Director, Alzheimer's Research Study - Cognex Access Program,
Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1993-96 Vice Chief of Staff, Sinai Hospital of Detroit; Chairman, Bylaws
Committee, Sinai Hospital of Detroit Hospital Appointments: Past
1969-71 Psychiatric Technician Sinai Hospital of Detroit,
1978-81 Chief, Crisis Intervention Service, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1978-81 Chief, Crisis Intervention, Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital
1981-82 Associate Chief, Day Hospital, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1982-90 Attending Staff, Kingswood Hospital, Ferndale, Michigan
1989-92 Attending Staff, Margaret Montgomery Hospital
1990-93 Pontiac General Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan
Professional Organizations:
1979- American Psychiatric Association
1979- Michigan Psychiatric Society
1979- Oakland County Medical Society
1979-80 Member, Michigan Psychiatric Society, Committee on Emergency Care
1976-77 Chairman, Michigan Psychiatric Society, Committee on Residents
1986 American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
1989 American Society of Addiction Medicine
1994 Michigan Neuropsychological Society, Lecturer
1997 Feilding Institute for Neuropsychology, Lecturer
1998 Michigan Psychiatric Society, Ethics Committee
2001 Michigan Psychiatric Society Disaster Response Coordinator and Liaison to APA
Licensure:
1976 State of Michigan
1977-78 United Kingdom
1979 State of California
Board Certification:
1980 Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1991 Certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
1994 Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Added qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry
1996 Added qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry
Added qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry
2004 Recertified in Addiction Psychiatry
2006 Recertified in Geriatric Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry
2009 Added Qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine
Honors and Awards:
1977-78 Chief Resident
1978-79 Harry E. August Award for outstanding performance as a resident
1984 Outstanding Faculty Member, Sinai Hospital of Detroit
1996 J. Edward Burke Award for member of the attending staff contributing the most
to house staff education
1997 Outstanding Faculty Member, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Department of Medicine
1998 J. Edward Burke Award for member of the attending staff contributing the most
to house staff education
2000 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2001 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2003 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
2006 Keynote Speaker, Wayne State University School of Medicine Baccalaureate Ceremony
Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2008 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
2009 American Psychiatric Association Nancy Roeske Award For Outstanding Teaching in
Medical Student Program
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.
2011 Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Wayne State University Department
of Psychiatry
Publications:
1976-77 Clinical Case Report "Pituitary Adenoma with Secondary
Hypothyroidism Presenting as Manic Depressive Psychosis"
abstracted in The Sinai Bulletin
1991 "Acute Psychoses"; "Anxiety Disorders" in The Clinical
Practice of Emergency Medicine, Harwood-Nuss, Editor. J. B.
Lippincott, New York 1990
"When the Patient Becomes Agitated: Diagnosis and Management
of the Acutely Psychotic Medical Patient" Patient Care 25:14 Sept 1991
1994 American College of Emergency Physicians Study Guide
"Psychiatric Emergencies - Acute Psychosis"
Presentations:
1985: "Management of Common Pain Syndromes"
Michigan State Medical Society Winter Meeting
1986: "Evaluation of the Acute Psychiatric Patient"
"Management of Behavioral Emergencies"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Scientific Assembly - Atlanta, Ga.
1987: "Evaluation of the Acute Psychiatric Patient"
"Management of Behavioral Emergencies"
American College of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting - San Francisco, Ca.
1988 "Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies"
"Suicide - Risk Evaluation and Management"
"Evaluation of Altered Mental Status in the Emergency Room"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Annual Meeting - New Orleans, La.
"Psychological Management of Malignant Pain" Michigan Cancer
Foundation Winter Scientific Meeting
1989: "Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Disorders"
Michigan State Medical Society Winter Meeting
1990: "Pain Patients - Evaluation and Management" Grand Rounds,
Detroit Psychiatric Institute
"Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt - Psychiatric Intervention in the
Rehabilitation of the Traumatic Brain Injured Patient"
William Beaumont Hospital Rehabilitation Conference
"Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies"
"Evaluation of Altered Mental Status in the Geriatric Patient"
American College of Emergency Physicians
Annual Meeting - San Francisco, California
"Clinical Evaluation of the Suicidal Patient"
Michigan State Medical Society - Winter Meeting
"Depression and Suicide in the Closed Head Injured Patient"
Michigan Head Injury Alliance Annual Meeting, Flint, Michigan
1991: "Psychiatry and The Law" State Bar of Michigan, Worker's
Compensation Section Winter Meeting
"Evaluation of Psycho-Behavioral Emergencies" American College
of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts
"Management of Pain Syndromes" Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
"Chronic Pain" Dallas - Fort Worth Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Society
1992: "Electroconvulsive Treatment in the Medically Ill Patient"
Michigan Psychiatric Society - Winter Meeting
"Dual Diagnosis in the Traumatic Brain Injured Patient"
NewMedicos Second Annual Conference on Brain Trauma Rehabilitation
1993: "Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds,
Department of Neurology Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
"Anxiety Disorders - Post Traumatic Stress Disorders and
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" Bournwood Hospital - Harvard
University, Boston, Massachusetts
"Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds, Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, Towsen, Maryland
1994: The Psychiatrist's Role in Evaluating Risk Factors for HIV Infection Wayne State
University Conference on AIDS and Mental Health
"Management of Chronic Pain" Grand Rounds, Our Lady of the
Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Post Traumatic Stress Disorders" New Orleans Psychiatric
Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995: "Addiction Treatment in Primary Care" Providence Hospital
Family Practice Department Board Review Course
"Management of Chronic Pain" Saginaw Veterans Administration
Hospital, Grand Rounds
"Drug Interactions in Antidepressant Therapy" Cleveland
Psychiatric Society, Cleveland, Ohio
1996: "Forensic Issues in Post Traumatic Stress Disorders"
Grand Rounds, State of Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Ypsilanti, Michigan
"Police Brutality and Police Suicide" Wayne State University Law School
Freshman Torts
1997: Visiting Professor Series, Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Department of Anesthesiology, “Chronic Pain,” “Addiction,” “Impaired Physicians”
Grace Hospital, Department of Medicine, Grand Rounds “Dementia and
Depression”
Feilding Institute of Postgraduate Psychological Studies, Psychopharmacology
Lecture Series
1998: “Diagnosis and Management of the Chronic Pain Patient” Michigan Society of
Anesthesiologists Annual Scientific Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan
“Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury”
Michigan Neuropsychological Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Livonia,
Michigan
“Traumatic Brain Injury - Psychiatric Sequelae” Brain Injury Association Annual
Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida
1999: “Substance Abuse” Wayne State University Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation Grand Rounds
2000: “Substance Abuse;” “Post Traumatic Stress Disorders” Wayne State University
School of Law
Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital Grand Rounds:
Chronic Pain
Psychogenic Polydipsia
Depot Neuroleptics
2001 “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” Wayne State University School of Law
“Chronic Pain” Wayne State University Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
“Substance Abuse;” “Post Traumatic Stress Disorders” Wayne State University
School of Law
“Treatment Resistant Depression” Grand Rounds Wayne State University
Department of Psychiatry
2004 “Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai Grace Hospital
“Obtaining High Quality Independent Medical Examinations” Association of Self
Insured Employers
2005 “Diagnosis and Treatment of Frontal Lobe Brain Injuries” North American Brain Injury Society Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida
2006 “Frontal Lobe Syndromes” North American Brain Injury Society St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York University, New York
“Attendant Care Issues in Frontal Lobe Brain Injuries” Michigan Neuropsychological
Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Michigan
“The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice” University of Detroit
Mercy Law School
2007 “The Psychiatrist Expert Witness in Health Law” Wayne State University School of Law
“The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness in Medical Malpractice” University of Detroit
Mercy Law School
“Diagnosis and treatment of Depression” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai
Grace Hospital
Edward R. Heil Symposium Connecting the Mind, Body and Spirit “The Importance
of Hope in Healing” Sinai Grace Hospital - University of Detroit Mercy
Michigan Association for Justice: “Presenting Emotional Distress Damages - a
Psychiatrists Perspective”
2008 “Suicide Assessment and Prevention in Firefighters” Command Meeting, Detroit Fire
Department
“Prevention of Suicide” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Exhibitionism” Case Presentation, Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Differential Diagnosis in Major Depression with Psychosis” Case Presentation,
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences
Michigan Association for Justice: “Persistent Psychiatric Symptoms After Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury”
“Inside the Mind of an Addict” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2009 “Personality and Spirituality in Addictions” Sinai Grace Hospital, Pastoral Care Seminar
New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury 12th Annual Conference “MRI
Neuroimaging in Mild to Moderate TBI: Neuropsychological and Psychiatric
Correlates”
“Addiction as a Chronic Disease” Grand Rounds Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2009 Institute of Continuing Legal Education “How to Take a Deposition”
“Internet Addiction” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2010 “Drug Seeking Behavior” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Sinai Grace Hospital
“Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” Case Report Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Suicide” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Pedophilia” Case Report Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Psychiatric Emergencies” Wayne State University Department of Emergency Medicine
“Medical Malpractice, Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State University Department
of Psychiatry Academic Seminar
2010 Continued
“Competency and Insanity” Michigan Association for Justice Annual Seminar
“Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Department of Orthopedic Surgery
University of New Mexico Kerry Tingley Hopsital
“Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain” Michigan State Medical Society Annual Scientific
Meeting. Troy, Michigan
“Erotomania and Stalking” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2011 “Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Medical Setting” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine Sinai Grace Hospital
“Medical malpractice - A Doctor’s Perspective” Grand Rounds Department of Medicine
Sinai Grace Hospital
“Forensic Aspects of Chronic Pain” Michigan Psychiatric Society Spring Scientific
Meeting, State of Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry
“Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Physician Wellness” Kent County Medical Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 Case Presentation “A Chronic Pain Patient” Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
“Borderline Personality Disorder” Grand Rounds, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Keynote Speech, Alpha Omega Alpha Initiation Ceremony Dinner, Wayne State
University School of Medicine
“Physician health and Physician Wellbeing” Michigan State Medical Society Leasdership
Conference
“Forensic Psychiatry” Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry Residents
Seminar
“Depression in the Medical Setting” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Sinai
Grace Hospital
2013 “Firearm Violence” Grand rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
2014 “Chronic Pelvic Pain” Sinai grace Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
“Forensic Psychiatry, Medical Malpractice and Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry
“Psychiatric Issues in Aging: Influence, Undue Influence and Testamentary Capacity” State Bar of Michigan Elder Law Section Annual Meeting
2015 “Conversion Disorder” Grand rounds, Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Psychiatric Issues in Aging - Competency and Guardianship” Michigan Guardianship
Association Annual Meeting, Muskegon, Michigan
“Psychiatric Issues in Endocrinology - Transgender and Morbid Obesity” Wayne State
University Department of Endocrinology Grand Rounds
“Abusive Men” Presbyterian Women of Metropolitan Detroit
“Forensic Psychiatry, Medical Malpractice and Criminal Responsibility” Michigan State
University Department of Psychiatry
Testamentary Capacity and Defending Competency” State Bar of Michigan Elder Law
Section Annual Meeting
“Management of Chronic Pain” Grand Rounds Sinai Grace Hospital Department of
Medicine
“Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity - The Criminal Justice System and the Chronic
Mentally Ill” Keynote Speaker, Association for Behavioral Health, Annual Meeting
Lansing, Michigan
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