Home

Biography

Curriculum Vitae
Abstract: 1 page

Curriculum Vitae
Abstract: 7 pages

Curriculum Vitae
Complete

Personal:
     Date/Place of Birth:  July 23, 1946, Baltimore, Maryland.
     Marital Status:  Widowed, 1988; Divorced, 2005; four children.

Education:

College
Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD -- Degree: B.A., 1968

Medical College
Pennsylvania Medical College, Philadelphia, PA -- Degree: M.D., 1974

Residency
Adult and Family Psychiatry
Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 1974-1976

Fellowship
Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 1976-1978.

Post-Fellowship

1979-1982  Phone Supervision with Joseph Noshpitz, M.D. (deceased), Professor of Child Psychiatry, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Editor, Handbook of Child Psychiatry and former President, American Academy of Child Psychiatry.

1979-1983  Phone Supervision with Reginald Lourie, M.D. (deceased), Professor Emeritus of Child Psychiatry, Senior Consultant, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Child Psychiatry, Founder Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Psychiatry Board Certification:
Granted by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
(Member of the American Board of Medical Specialists)

• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology:
  Subspecialty Certification in Forensic Psychiatry
  (April 1998 -- Cert. No. 685)
• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology:
  Certification in Adult Psychiatry
  (November 1993 -- Cert. No. 38156)
• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology:
  Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  (September 1994 -- Cert. No. 3695)
• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology:
  Subspecialty Certification in Addiction Psychiatry
  (April 1997 -- Cert. No. 1151)
• Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology:
  Subspecialty Certification in Geriatric Psychiatry
  (November 1996 -- Cert. No. 501880)

Industrial Medicine/Psychiatry Certification:

Qualified Medical Examiner, Division of Industrial Accidents, State of California
1991-Present; Re-Certified June 29, 1994 -- (Cert. No. 1005815)

Licensure:  California: C039950, 1981.

Private Practice - Southern California 
Evaluation/Treatment:  Forensic - Child - Adolescent - Adult - Addiction - Geriatric - Family Psychiatry - Personal Injury Cases. 
Offices in Southern California:  Tarzana, CA.

Staff Psychiatrist
Ventura County Mental Health, Ventura California, evaluating and treating children, adolescents, and adults, until 2003.

Psychiatric Consultant
Clifton Tatum Juvenile Hall, Ventura, California, 2000-2003.

Chief Investigator
Chief Investigator in a study of the efficacy of Ginkgo Biloba in Attention Deficit Disorder (double-blind, placebo-controlled study).

• Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry, 1995-2003.
• Crisis Hospitalization, Child and Adolescent Division, Ventura County, California, 1995-1996; returned 2001-2003.
• Psychiatric Consultant, Clifton Tatum Juvenile Hall, Ventura, California, 1996; returned, 2001-2003.
• Intensive Psychiatric Unit, Ventura County Mental Health, Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, California, 1995-1996.

• Clifton Tatum Juvenile Hall, Ventura, California, 1996; returned 2001-2003.
• Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley Child & Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic, Ventura County Mental Health, 1995-1996; returned 2001-2002.

• Performed hospital inpatient/outpatient work as well as evaluations/treatment at a number of nursing facilities, 1994.

• To Barton Blinder, M.D., Chief of Research, Professor of Psychiatry, Eating Disorders Program, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, 1984-1987; 1993.

• Staff member under Louis Gottschalk, M.D., Chief, Consultation-Liaison Service, University of California at Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, 1984-1986.
• Psychiatric Liaison on Neurology rounds with Dr. Stanley Van Den Nort, Professor of Neurology, 1985-1986.

Publications:

• Abstracts in Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine (Depression; Chronic Pain; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Traumatic Brain Injury; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 {MMPI-2}) March 1999.
  
• Use of Psychotropic Medication in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period.
  
• Recent Advances, Diagnosis & Psychopharmacologic Management of Depression, Anxiety, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Schizophrenoform Essay and Schizophrenoform Disorders.
  
• Overview: Geriatric Psychopharmacology.
  
• Update & Review: Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

• Blinder B.J., Goodman S.L., Chao B.S., Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Pica in Children and Adolescents and Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Rumination
  • Work Group on Quality Issues, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 1993.
    
• Blinder B.J., Goodman S.L., Henderson P., Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Pica: Etiology and Treatment and Blinder B.J., Goodman S.L., Goldstein, Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Rumination: Etiology and Treatment
  • A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association, Volume 1, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C., 1989.
    
• Goodman S.L., Blinder B.J., Atypical Eating Disorders: A Summary of Eating Disorders in Children, Males, and Older Females, Including Medical Complications
  • The Eating Disorders: Medical and Psychological Basis of Diagnosis and Treatment, PMA Publishing, N.Y., 1988 [First published case report of prepubertal bulimia with purging.]
    
• Blinder B.J., Goodman S.L., Atypical Eating Disorders, Larocca, F., Ed.
  • New Directions for Mental Health Services, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1986.

• Review: Psychopharmacologic Management of Aggression
  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, California, September 1996.
    
• Review and Current Advances: Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
  • West Valley Teaching Colloquium, Reseda, California, February 1996.
    
• Review: Psychopharmacology Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, California, May 1996.
    
• Journal Club: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Review of Child, Adolescent and Adult Literature, Case Report with Resperidone and Clozapine
  • Ventura County Department of Psychiatry, Ventura, California, May 1996.
    
• Journal Club: Review of Electroconvulsive Treatment, Indications, Medical-Legal Issues
  • Ventura County Department of Psychiatry, Ventura, California, June 1996.
    
• Journal Club: Psychopharmacology Update, Review of Current Literature/Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
  • Ventura County Dept, of Psychiatry, Ventura, California, June 1996.
    
• Journal Club: Review of Geriatric Affective Disorders, Anxiety Disorders & Psychosis
  • Ventura County Department of Psychiatry, Ventura, California, July 1996.
    
• Review and Update: Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
  • Ventura County Mental Health, Ventura, California, January 1996.
    
• Mock Trial Expert Witness: Consumers' Attorneys Conference
  • Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1997.
    
• Review: Valproic Acid and Update of New Advances in Treatment of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Illness
  • Department of Child and Adult Psychiatry, Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, California.
    
• Overview of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
  • Department of Pediatrics, Santa Monica Hospital, Santa Monica, California, July 1999.
    
• Principles of Child-Rearing
  • First School, Santa Monica, California, 1999.

Industrial Medicine
California Society of Industrial Medicine, June 1998.

Psychopharmacology
Board Review: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts -- June 1994 (4 days).

Review: Child, Adolescent, Adult, Adolescent, and Geriatric Psychopharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts -- October 1993 (3 days); October 1995 (3 days).

Forensic Psychiatry
Seminar: Overview of Psychiatry and the Law, Directed by Philip Resnick, M.D., Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve, Columbus, Ohio -- March 1998 (2 days).

Geriatric Psychiatry
Board Review: Examination for Subspecialty Certification in Geriatric Psychiatry, October 4, 1998.

Head/Traumatic Brain Injuries
Seminar: Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles Convention Head Injuries -- Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1997.

Seminar: Consumer Attorneys of California Head Injuries, Minor Traumatic Brain Injury, Toxic Torts, Sexual Discrimination -- San Francisco, November 1997.

Autism
Review of Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism, Scientific Proceedings American Academy Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Anaheim, California, November 1, 1998.

Psychiatry
Review of Neurology and Psychiatry CME Comprehensive Review, 1997 [Syllabi/40 hours of audiotapes].

• Review of Syllabi/Tapes  Includes Midyear Institute on Psychopharmacology and Review of Evaluation and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Children/Adolescents Institute on Psychopharmacology, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.
• Model Psychopharmacology Curriculum for Psychiatric Residency Programs, Training Directors, and Teachers of Psychopharmacology  American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, October 1997. [Video/Review of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric psychopharmacology, 16 hours].
• Review of Audio Tapes/Syllabi, Annual Meeting  American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology Institutes, October 1994-1996, 1998. [120 hours].
• Review of Scientific Proceedings  American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1993-1995, 1998.

Psychopharmacology

• Reviews of Major Psychiatric Disorders: Annual Meeting and Midyear Institute Institute of Psychopharmacology, American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1995/1996.
• Review of Child, Adolescent, Adult, Geriatric, and Addiction Psychiatry Psychopharmacology Home Study, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts -- 1998 [Passed written examination for 21 hrs. CME credit].
• Review of Syllabi/Tapes on Psychopharmacology of Major Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adults, 1999 Midyear Institute American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Santa Fe, March 1999.
• Review of Audiocassettes in Pediatric Psychopharmacology Pediatric Psychopharmacology 2000, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Meeting, New York, January 2000.
• Review of Syllabi/Tapes on Psychopharmacology of Major Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adults 2000 Midyear Institute American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Puerto Vallarta, March 2000.

Substance Abuse, Textbook of Substance Abuse, Lowinson et al., American Psychiatric Association Press, 1997.

• Textbook of Neuropsychiatry S.C. Yudofsky, M.D.; R.E., Hale, M.D., The American Psychiatric Press, 1997.
• Conference of the Brain Injury Foundation, 1997 -- (500-page syllabus/25 hours of audiotapes).
• Neuropsychiatry of the Limbic System, Cummings et al, American Psychiatric Association, 1997.

• The Psychiatrist in Court: A Survival Guide, Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., American Psychiatric Association Press, Washington, D.C., 1998.
• The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness, Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., American Psychiatric Association Press, Washington, D.C., 1998.

• Ventura County Medical Center / Ventura County Mental Health, Ventura, California.
• Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, California (until closing, June 1998).
• Charter Hospital of Thousand Oaks, Thousand Oaks, California (1995 through hospital closing, March 1996).

1. Audio Digest, Psychiatry
2. Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology
3. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
4. Journal of American Psychiatric Association
5. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
6. Currents in Psychopharmacology
7. Biologic Therapies in Psychiatry
8. Drug Alert in Psychiatry
9. CME Reviews (Santa Ana, California)
10. Schizophrenia Bulletin
11. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
12. Pediatrics
13. Journal of Pediatrics
14. American Journal of Geriatrics
15. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
16. Nutrition Today
17. Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
18. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
19. The Neuroscientist
20. QME (Occupational Medicine & Law)
21. Currents in Affective Disorders
22. Health and Nutrition Letter, Tufts University
23. Journal Watch in Medicine, Tufts University
24. Journal Watch in Psychiatry, Tufts University
25. Harvard Mental Health Letter
26. Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology News Stanley P. Kutcher, M.D.
27. Journal of Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, & Behavioral Neurology
28. Official Journal of the Behavioral Neurology Society
29. Behavioral Pharmacology