Education:
University of North Carolina BA, 1955
University of Tennessee, M.D., 1960 Internship, Saint Elizabeths, 1960-61
Residency in Psychiatry, Saint Elizabeths, 1961-64

Experience:
2001- Present: Chief Psychiatrist, Montgomery County Government, Rockville, Maryland,
1979- Present: Clinical Professor, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
1995- Present: Clinical Faculty, Saint Elizabeths Residency Program
2004- Present: Instructor, Howard University, Washington, DC
1998- 2001 Attending Psychiatrist, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
1996- 1998 Medical Director, Northern Virginia M.H. Institute, Fairfax County, Virginia
1995- 1996 CME Director, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
1995- 1996 Editor, Publisher, Washington Psychiatry
1991- Present: Consultant, CMS, Medicare Surveyor
1979- 1995 Psychiatry Department Chairman, Saint Elizabeths, NIMH and periodically during these years also:

-Psychiatrist, Asylum Community,
-Director, Overholser Division of Training,
-Medical Director, Forensic Programs,
-President, Medical Staff,
-Chief Clinical Officer/Medical Director,.

1978-1979 Assistant Director for Treatment, NIMH, Rockville, MD
1974-1979 Assistant/Acting Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths, NIMH
1969-1973 Director, Area D CMHC, Saint Elizabeths, NIMH
1967-1969 Chief of Service, Neuropsychopharmacology Program NIMH, Saint Elizabeths
1964-1967 Faculty, Training Department, Saint Elizabeths
1961-1964 Psychiatric Residency, Saint Elizabeths,
1960-1961 General Rotating Internship, Saint Elizabeths,

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Certifications:
Psychiatry, 1971, recertified in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and 2007
Administration Psychiatry, 1969
Forensic Psychiatry, 1982

Professional Activities:
2007- 2010 APA Trustee-At-Large, Board of Trustees
2001- 2007 Area III Trustee, Board of Trustee, APA
1989- 1992 Trustee-At-Large, Board of Trustees, APA
1990s Trustee, Board, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (Two Terms)
1986- 1987 Speaker of the APA Assembly,
1975- Present: Member or Guest of APA Assembly
1974- Present: Member, Washington Psychiatric Society, Board of Directors
Past-President, Saint Elizabeths Medical Society
Past-President, DC Chapter of the Washington Psychiatric Society
Past-President, Federal Physicians Association
Past-President, Psychiatric Section, DC Medical Society
Past-President, American Association of Psychiatric Administrators
Past-President, American Association of Social Psychiatry
Member of roughly 100 APA or District Branch committees including those that developed DSM-III, DSM IIIR, DSM-IV, DSM-V and APA’s Practice Guidelines

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Publications and Presentations Topics: (Often Co-authored)
Psychosomatic Illness
White House Cases
Infanticide
Imprinting
Substance Abuse
Idiot Savants
Utilization Review
Neurasthenia
Hyperpyrexic Catatonia
Lethal Catatonia
Structuring Mental Health Services
Hysterical Personality Disorder
Hysterical psychosis
Importance of Involuntary Treatment
Acupuncture
Ernest R. Groves's contribution to American Sociology
Training Paraprofessionals
Partial Hospitalization
Standards and Quality Control
DSM III
Indications for Establishing Committees
Patient Rights and Patient Chronicity
Phencyclidine Psychosis
Outpatient Commitment
Commitment to Freedom
Multiaxial System
Public Mental Hospitals
The Need for Asylums
The Legal System and the Homeless
DSM IIIR,
Beyond Community Psychiatry
The Ethics of Deinstitutionalization
Being a Lighthouse
Administrative Psychiatry Ethics
Can the Psychiatric Administrator Be Ethical?
Supportive Psychotherapy
Prevention in Psychiatry
The Need for Treatment
Beyond “Non-Discrimination”
Health Care Reform
Professionalism
Psychiatric Management
DSM IV
APA Issues
Physician-Patient Relationship
Coercion in Psychiatry
Regulation Disorder [Borderline Personality Disorder]
Suicide
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Nomenclature in psychiatry
Polypharmacy in psychiatry
DSM-V
Management of Anxiety Adjustment Disorder
Clinical Utility as an aspect of a psychiatric diagnostic system
Access to Psychiatric Care
Supportive Psychotherapy in Adjustment Disorders
Should the Community Replace the Asylum?
Historical review of the APA's position and "parity."
Treatment diagnosing.
Misuse of the term "suicidality."


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Honors:

• 2007, Included in Consumer's Research Council of America's
"Guide to America's Top Psychiatrists"
• Annual APA Administrative Psychiatry Award
• Annual Community Services Award, D.C. Medical Society
• Annual Chapter Award, Suburban Maryland Psychiatric Society
• Annual Distinguished Psychiatric Services Award, DC Chapter of WPS
• Annual Distinguished Psychiatric Services Award, DC Medical Society
• Annual Harold Eist Award, Washington Society Foundation
• Honorary Member of Baltimore-DC Psychoanalytic Society
• Half a dozen awards associated with Saint Elizabeths/NIMH
• Listed in Who’s Who in America, Professional International Who’s Who, and other Who’s Who
• NAMI’s Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, 2000
• Andromeda Transcultural Award, 2005
• APA Lifer's Award, 2008

Family:
Married [1963], widowed [1988], and remarried [1992]. Five children and five grandchildren

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