Over a career spanning more than 35 years in psychiatry, this expert has specialized in clinical psychiatry involving children, adolescents, and adults, with expertise in psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, outpatient psychiatric care, personal injury, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), childhood sexual abuse, bullying, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, and sexual harassment. He also has experience involving neurology. His practice includes psychiatric evaluation and treatment utilizing psychotherapy and medication management across a broad range of behavioral health conditions. He has prior expert witness experience.

His professional background includes decades in private psychiatric practice, providing evaluation and treatment for children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples through psychotherapy and medication management. He has also served in senior academic and clinical leadership roles at a major university medical school and affiliated teaching hospital, where he held appointments as a Full Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, directed residency training in child and adolescent psychiatry, served as Ward Chief of a long-term intensive adolescent inpatient service, and taught medical students, psychiatric residents, nurses, psychologists, and social workers. His experience further includes leadership in child and adolescent outpatient psychiatric services, consultation for a public school district, disability insurance carriers, and medical regulatory agencies, as well as medical-legal evaluations involving workers’ compensation, personal injury, child custody, and related psychiatric matters.

In addition to his clinical practice, he has participated in psychiatric education, research, and professional service through publications, lectures, board examination activities, and leadership positions within national and regional psychiatric organizations. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Toronto, completed residency training in General Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at LAC-USC Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Resident in Child Psychiatry, and is board certified in both Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, and his professional memberships have included the American Psychiatric Association, American College of Forensic Examiners, and American Society of Addiction Medicine.