Visiting Professorships
3/94 Visiting Professor, Cambria County Medical Society

6/94 Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Center of Brazil at Sao Paolo



Individual Lectures/Presentations/Media Appearances

11/07 Interviewed WGN radio, Chicago Ill. regarding baseball lsteroid abuse scandal.
 
3/07 Interviewed by Geraldo Rivera/ NEWS regarding Virginia Tech mas murdercase.
 
3/07 Interviewed by Kimberly Guilfoyle/ “Line Up” program FOX NEWS regarding multiple unsolved murder cases.

1/07 Interviewed Kimberly Guilfoyle/ “Line Up” program FOX NEWS regarding Missouri Child Abduction cases.

1/07 Interviewed by Katrina Owens/ “Night Talk” PCNC regarding Missouri Child Abduction cases

10/06 Interviewed by ABC News/Good Morning America regarding Dissociative Amnesia

10/06 Interviewed by Pittsburgh Tribune Review regarding Amish Schoolhouse Murders.

10/06 Interviewed by Ann Devlin/ “Night Talk” PCNC regarding Amish Schoolhouse Murders.

8/06 "Evaluating Change in Mental Status, Practice & Pitfalls", CME/Grand rounds, UPMC St. Margaret’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.

1/06 "Psychiatric Assessment of the Potentially Abusive Parent", CME Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA.

10/05 "Management of drug/alcohol withdrawal in the acute med/surg patient", CME Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA.

9/05 "Work Related Psychiatric Injuries- Practices & Pitfalls", CME/CLE Seminar, Harrisburgh, PA.

8/05 "2nd generation antipsychotics, medical morbidity and mortality", CME/Grand rounds Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

3/05 "Work Related Psychiatric Injuries- Practices & Pitfalls", CME/CLE Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA.

3/05 "The BTK killer", Interview regarding serial killer arrest, CJOB radio station, Winnipeg Canada.

3/05 The BTK killer", Interview regarding serial killer arrest, WPXI radio station/Night Talk Show, Pittsburgh, PA.

2/05 "School Noted Adoptees size", Interview regarding abuse of adopted children by adoptive parents, Tamp Tribune, Tampa, FL.

10/04 "Creutzfeld Jacob Disease", Interview regarding unusual epidemiological outbreak of this disorder in the local area, WAMC, Albany, N

8/04 "Little League can’t escape online bets", Interview regarding compulsive gambling, Ventura County Star, Ventura, CA

7/04 "Psychopharmacology, Practice & Pitfalls in the General Hospital & ICU patient", Grand Rounds, UPMC-St. Margaret’s Hospital, Aspinwall, PA

6/04 Interview regarding serial killer, Eugene McWatters, Port St. Lucie News, Pt. St. Lucie, FL

4/04 Testimony regarding urine drug testing and confounding physiological fluid balance abnormalities in professional football players, NFL League Headquarters, New York, NY

3/04 Interview regarding Asperger’s Syndrome and the Robert Durst Murder Trial, “48 hours” show, ABC TV, New York, NY

2/04 "The role of the Forensic Neuropsychiatrist in Civil & Criminal court proceedings", Duquesne Law School/Forensic Science program, Pittsburgh, PA

1/04 "Gambling Addiction & Gambling TV", interview, FoxNews.com, New York, NY

11/03 "Is there a common set of characteristics among serial killers", interview regarding the apprehension of Green River serial killer Gary Ridgeway, Agence France Presse Wire Service, Los Angeles, CA

11/03 "Gambling Addiction", interview regarding this disorder, The Newark review, Newark, Delaware

10/03 Radio interview regarding Rush Limbaugh and opiate addiction in professionals, KABC radio station, Los Angeles, California

9/03 "Drug and Alcohol Detoxification in the medical inpatient", Family Practice Residency Teaching lecture, UPMC-St. Margaret’s Hospital, Aspinwall, PA

9/03 "The use of anxiolytics, antipsychotic agents and antidepressants in the ICU", Grand Rounds, UPMC-St. Margaret’s Hospital, Aspinwall, PA

8/03 Radio interview regarding serial sniper in Charleston WV, and the psychiatric profile of serial killers, KMSO radio station, Kansas City, Kansas

7/03 "Mother of Townsend Boy: ‘there’s no need for arrest’", interview regarding Asperger’s Syndrome, The Middletown Transcript, Middletown, Delaware

5/03 "Breakthroughs in Burn treatment saves Lives", interview regarding current Burn Trauma treatment in US, Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina

5/03 "Amnesia", interview regarding US soldier Pfc. Jessica Lynch and her reported amnesia after Iraqi War capture, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Illinois

4/03 "Gulf War Syndrome", radio interview regarding Gulf War Syndrome and its’ clinical effects, National Radio Chain, Colombia, South America

4/03 "The Mystery of Nigel Smith", interviewed regarding homeless man with psychogenic amnesia, Post & Courier Newspaper, Charleston, SC

3/03 "After Kuwait grenade incident, 101st Airborne Soldiers fight new fear", interviewed regarding grenade attack by US soldier on comrades in Kuwait during 2nd Gulf War, Stars & Stripes Magazine, Washington, DC

2/03 "New Techniques Proving Vital for Burn Patient’s", interviewed regarding Rhode Island Night-Club Fire, Boston Globe Newspaper, Boston, MA

1/03 "The Death Penalty in America, aftermath of the Illinois Governor’s Decision", interview, WLIE Radio, Long Island, NY

11/02 "Rational Use of Chemical Restraints in the Agitated ICU patient'", Saint Margaret’s Memorial Hospital, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa.

10/02 "Gulf War Syndrome & Violent Behavior” – interview, Canadian Public Broadcasting Channel, Toronto , Canada

9/02 "Desperate Mom kills son to save self", interview regarding addiction and codependency in genesis of crime, Salt Lake City Tribune, Salt Lake, UT

3/02 "Psychiatric Assessment of the 'Sexually Violent Predator', Practice &Pitfalls'", Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1/02 "Psychiatric Issues in Federal Sentencing Downward Departure", Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Valley Forge, Pa.

7/01 "Fibromyalgia", Pennsylvania Bar Institute - Pittsburgh, Pa.

6/01 "Fibromyalgia", Pennsylvania Bar Institute - Philadelphia, Pa.

8/00 CLE Lecture - Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers - PA Chapter "Modern Rx" Pittsburgh, PA

6/00 Invited Presentation to Pa. Senate Subcommittee on Youth & Aging – “The Legal Rights of the Mentally Ill as pertains to Involuntary Commitment and gun ownership”; Public Hearing on Violence & Mental Illness, Sponsor : State Senator Murphy, Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Pa

10/99 CME Lecture – Medicolegal Seminar “Dymanic Neuroimageing, the state of the art”, Pittsburgh, Pa

8/99 CLE Lecture – Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers –PA Chapter “Stress, Burnout, Addiction and Depression in Professionals”, Pittsburgh, PA

5/99 CME Lecture -Allegheny County Workers Compensation Information Exchange “Demographic & Behavioral Predictors in the Acutely Injured Worker” Pittsburgh, Pa

4/99 CLE Lecture – Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers –PA Chapter “Addiction Issues and Downward Departure under Federal Sentencing Guidelines”, Pittsburgh, Pa

3/99 CLE Lecture – Allegheny County Bar Association – “Closed Head Injury, New Developments”, Pittsburgh, Pa

11/ 98 Grand Rounds – UPMC/Passavant Hospital – “Psychopharmacology in the Critically Ill Patient”, Pittsburgh, Pa.

11/ 98 Teaching Grand Rounds – St. Margaret’s Mem. Hospital – “Emergency Psychiatry, Principles & Practice”, Pittsburgh, Pa.

10/ 98 Grand Rounds – St. Margaret’s Mem. Hospital – “Invasive Psychiatry – management of the ICU patient with agitation”, Pittsburgh, Pa.

10/ 98 Seminar – Morgantown, WV. – “Daubert Issues in Neuropsychiatry”, presented at CLE Seminar for Northern West Virginia.

5/98 “Psychiatric Implications of Impairment”, presented at Worker’s Compensation Impairment Evaluation: Using the 4th Edition of the AMA Guidelines, Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society, Philadelphia, Pa.

9/97 Teaching Grand Rounds: “Management of Agitation in The ICU” - St. Margaret’s Memorial Hospital. Pittsburgh, Pa.

6/97 Grand Rounds - Shadyside Hospital, "Depression in the Medically Ill"; Pittsburgh, PA

6/97 Presenter, CLE/CME Seminar, Duquesne University School of Law , “McN’aughton meets Buck Rogers, Forensically proving cognitive impairment into the 21st century “, Pittsburgh., PA.

3/97 Presenter, CLE/CME Seminar - , “Depression, Brain Injury and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy”, Erie, PA.

1/97 Presenter, CLE/CME Seminar - “Tort Aspects of Neurotoxicolgy”, Pittsburgh, PA.

11/96 Presenter, Pennsylvania Defense Institute CLE/CME course, “Depression, Brain Injury and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy”, Pittsburgh, PA.

9/96 Grand Rounds-Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, "Pharmacology of the Newer Antidepressants", Pittsburgh, PA.

4/96 Presenter, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 1996 Spring Meeting & CLE/CME Seminar, "The Effective Use of Psychiatric Evidence" Pittsburgh, PA

4/94 Presenter, Annual American Trauma Society Conference, Pennsylvania Division, "Neuropsychiatric Determinants of Repetitive Injury", Pittsburgh, PA

7/93 Grand Rounds-Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, "Treatment of Geriatric Depression"; Pittsburgh, PA.

4/93 Presenter - Annual American Trauma Society Conference, Pennsylvania Division, "Neuropsychiatric Determinants of Repetitive Injury", Pittsburgh, PA

4/93 Grand Rounds - St. Francis Hospital, "Depression in the Medically Ill"; Pittsburgh, PA

10/92 Grand Rounds - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Department of Critical Care Medicine, "Acute Drug Withdrawal"; Pittsburgh, PA.

9/92 Medical Grand Rounds - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, "Acute Drug Withdrawal"; Pittsburgh, PA.

9/92 Grand Rounds - Center for Emergency Medicine, "Acute Drug Withdrawal"; Pittsburgh, PA.

5/92 Grand Rounds - Montefiore University Hospital Department of Toxicology/ Emergency Medicine "Acute Drug Withdrawal"; Pittsburgh, PA.

4/92 Grand Rounds - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, "Stress Management in the Critical Care Setting"; Pittsburgh, PA.

3/92 Eastern Emergency and Trauma Forum - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Departments of Trauma and Emergency Medicine "Neuropsychiatric Determinants of Repetitive Traumatic Injuries"; Pittsburgh, PA

1992 Lecturer, Psychiatry Rotation, to third year Medical Students; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

10/91 Grand Rounds - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, "Differential Diagnosis and Management of Agitation in the Critical Care Setting"; Pittsburgh, PA.

10/91 Teleconference - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Toxicology/Emergency Medicine, "Assessment and Management of the Violent Patient"; Pittsburgh, PA.

9/91 Trauma Conference - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Trauma Service "Neurobiological Antecedents of Repetitive Traumatic Injury"; Pittsburgh, PA.

12/90 Grand Rounds - New York Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, "Psychiatric Management of the Severely Burned Patient"; New York, NY.



TEACHING:
2003-present Co-developer/lecturer Neuropsychiatry/Neurotoxicology curriculum for ICU rotation @ St. Margaret’s Memorial Hospital– Family Practice Residency
Curriculum

1997-2003 Clinical Preceptor, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic & St. Margaret’s Memorial Hospital - Emergency Psychiatry Curriculum

1994-2003 Volunteer faculty, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Psychiatry Residency Curriculum

1997-2002 Guest Lecturer, Shadyside Hospital - Family Practice Curriculum

1992-95 Curriculum Director, WPIC Office of Residency Training didactic curriculum; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

1992-1995 Program Development Consultant, Various Regional Health Care Organizations

1991-95 Supervisor, Psychiatric Residents and Medical Students on the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service/Program; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

1991-95 Examiner, Mock Board Examination as a component of the Residency Training Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.