CAREER
EDUCATION
Current Positions
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Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Cleveland (2007 - Present)
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Director of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatric Services (2008 – Present)
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University
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Focus on community psychiatry for children and adults.
Past Positions
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Forensic Psychiatry Practice (1997 – 2017)
Teaching – Developed and taught 18 seminars on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Law to child psychiatry and pediatric portal residents
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Lectured nationally on forensic and child forensic psychiatry.
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Consulted to the U.S. Department of Justice - conditions of confinement to residential juvenile justice reform programs
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Consulted to the Southern Center for Human Rights – conditions of confinement for incarcerated women
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Consultation to medical boards
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Consultant on various other matters involving psychiatry and the law
Postgraduate Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Combined residency in general and child psychiatry (1991- 1996)
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University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University - Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry. Concentration in Child Forensics (1996-1997)
Undergraduate/Graduate Education
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Barnard College, Columbia University, BA in Biochemistry, 1986
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State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, M.D., 1991
ACTIVITIES - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
APA - Current
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Board of Trustees (2018-present)
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Chairperson, APA Presidential Task Force on Structural Racism, (2020-present)
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APA/APA Foundation Building Workgroup (2019 - 2020)
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Strategic Planning Workgroup (2020-present)
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Finance and Budget Committee (2018-present)
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Representative to the American Foundation for Firearm Prevention and Injury in Medicine (2019-present)
- Representative to the American College of Surgeons I-Save Group (2019 - present)
APA - Past
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Affiliate Membership Workgroup (2019)
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Council on Psychiatry and the Law (2009-2013, 2016-2018)
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APA Guideline Writing Group (2011 – 2018)
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APA Assembly –Representing the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)
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Representative (2015 – 2018)
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Assistant Representative (2009-2015)
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APA Assembly Rules Committee (2015-2018)
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Maintenance of Certification Committee (2015-2018)
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APA Assembly Community Psychiatry Committee – (2013-2015)
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Women of the Assembly (2019 - 2018)
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Assembly Committee of Representatives of Subsections and Specialties, ACROSS (2009 - 2018)
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Forensic Advisor to DSM-5 Workgroups (2012 -2013)
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Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Committee (2006-2013)
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)
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Representative to the APA Assembly (2015 - 2018)
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Assistant Representatve to the APA Assembly (2009-2015)
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Counselor, AAPL Executive Council (2003 – 2007)
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Co-Chair Education Committee (2012 – 2014)
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Chair – Criminal Behavior Committee (2001 – 2003)
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Member, Criminal Behavior Committee
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Book Review Editor, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2007- 2017)
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Member, Program Committee (1997 – Present)
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Member, AAPL Newsletter Photography Team (2003 – 2007)
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Member, Computers in Forensic Psychiatry Committee (1997 – 2007)
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Child Forensic Psychiatry Section Monitor, AAPL Website (1997-2007)
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Book Review Editor (2007 - 2017)
Editorial Board Member (2018-present)
Other
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Member, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1993 - Present)
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Member, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (1999 – 2008)