CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Civil Litigation-Defense and plaintiff evaluations for full range of civil and employment litigation issues including: sexual harassment; age and race discrimination; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; issues of somatization, abnormal illness behavior and malingering; neuropsychiatric disorders; conservatorship; testamentary capacity; ability to make wills and enter into contracts; issues of undue influence.

Clinical Practice - Child adolescent and adult psychiatry.

Child Custody - Superior court panels in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, and Riverside County. Areas of expertise include allegations of abuse including: sexual abuse; parental alienation; domestic violence; parental mental illness; post partum depression; allegations of Munchausen’s, infanticide, substance abuse; and move away cases.

Evaluation of Sexual Offenders - Member of Orange County Probation Department Sex Offender Treatment Program Task Force. Involved in drafting guidelines for treatment including medical treatment such as the use of Depo-Provera. Member of the Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Panel, Clinical Evaluation Panel (State of California, Department of Mental Health).

Criminal Competency Evaluations - Including evaluations of mental state at the time of offense, competency to stand trial, plead guilty, and to waive counsel. California Department of Mental Health Mentally Disordered Offenders panel member.

Workers’ Compensation - Conducts QME and AME evaluations.

Expert Medical Reviewer - Appointed by the California Medical Board to conduct professional competency and mental competency evaluations of physicians.

ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Clinical supervisor, Harbor UCLA Learning Clinic. The clinic specializes in evaluating referrals from the community for ADHD, Disruptive Disorders and Learning disabilities in the South Bay schools. Provide clinical supervision to medical students, psychologists, pediatric, family practice, and psychiatric residents and fellows.

Clinical Supervisor, Harbor UCLA Child Psychiatry Fellowship program. Provide clinical supervision in child psychopharmacology for residents and fellows.

UCLA Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Conducts a biannual course for forensic psychiatry fellows on psychiatric evaluation in work place litigation, psychic injury, post-traumatic stress disorder in adults and children in civil and criminal context.

Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona.

Medical Director, Southern California Neurodiagnostic Laboratory, Los Alamitos, California.
Specializes in computerized EEGs (Brian Electrical Activity Mapping studies) to evaluate mild brain injury, epilepsy, learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dementia.
Polysomnography (sleep lab) evaluating sleep disorders, i.e., narcolepsy, and sleep apnea in adults and children.

1985 to 1992 – Medical Director, Southern California Neuropsychiatric Consultants.
Provided leadership and training, organization, and clinical supervision to a team of four psychiatrists, two primary care physicians, five psychologists, and ten marriage family counselors and licensed clinical social worker level therapists and also numerous psychiatric assistants.
Executive Medical Director to two inpatient programs, one partial hospitalization program, and three outpatient clinics in the Long Beach area.

Executive Director, Phoenix Center for Men, Long Beach, California. This program specialized in dealing with men’s’ issues and organized conferences, workshops, and ongoing groups for individuals.

1997 to 2000 - Medical Director, Partial Hospital Program, Heritage Hospital, Rancho Cucamonga, California. He provided clinical and organizational leadership for 50-bed partial hospital program devoted to a chronic mentally ill and geriatric psychiatric population. He also supervised a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nursing staff, while providing continuing education to the medical team.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
2000 American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology
1998 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Forensic Psychiatry) 536
1994 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child Psychiatry) 3762
1982 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry) 24127
1979 Medical License in California
1995 Medical License in Hawaii
1996 Qualified Medical Evaluator, Industrial Medical Council, State of California

EDUCATION
1970-75 Doctor of Medicine, University of Bombay

POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING
1981-83 Clinical Fellow in Child Psychiatry, Harvard University
McLean Hospital: Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital: Childhood Psychosomatic Medicine
Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Boston: Developmental Evaluation Clinic and Child Development Center
1978-81 University of California at Irvine: Residency in Psychiatry
1977-78 Lehigh Valley Medical Center: Residency in Surgery


PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE
2001-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Los Angeles County Superior Court / Family Law
2000-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Los Angeles County Superior Court / Criminal
1999-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Los Angeles County Superior Court / Juvenile Dependency
1999-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Riverside County Superior Court / Criminal
1999-Present Panel Psychiatrist, San Bernardino County Superior Court / Criminal
1999-Present Panel Psychiatrist, San Bernardino Juvenile Court
1998-Present Orange County Probation Department Approved Sex Offender Treatment Program
1998-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Riverside County Superior Court/Dependency, delinquency
1994-Present Panel Psychiatrist, Orange County Superior Court/Juvenile Court
1997-Present Panel Psychiatrist, San Bernardino County Superior Court/Dependency and Family Court
1997 San Diego County Superior Court / Psychiatric Clinic
1984-Present Private Clinical Practice in Infant, Child, and Adult Psychiatry

APPOINTMENTS
2002-Present Member State of California Mentally Disordered Offender Panel
2001-Present Member State of California Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Pane
1998-Present Member Sex Offender Advisory Committee, Orange County Probation
1998-Present Clinical Supervisor in Child Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Learning Clinic
1986-Present Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles
1986-Present Clinical Professor of Family Medicine/Psychiatry, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California
1995-Present Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.

MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
New York Academy of Sciences
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
California Coalition on Sexual Offending