CURRICULUM VITAE



CURRICULUM VITAE

Michael K. Spodak, M.D.

CURRENT STATUS:

Private Practice in Psychiatry

26 W. Pennsylvania Ave.

Towson, Maryland 21204

(410) 337-0343 (1977-Present)

mkspodak@

PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTANT TO:

Anne Arundel County Department of Personnel

Annapolis, Maryland

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment Standards Administration

Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

Washington, D.C. 20212

Workers’ Compensation Commission

6 N. Liberty Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21202

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD:

Faculty

National Judicial College

University of Nevada

Reno, Nevada

Title of Course: Scientific testimony with special emphasis on

psychological, psychiatric & mental health evidence

Guest Faculty Lecturer

University of Baltimore Law School (Maryland)

Class in “Law & Psychiatry”

Class in “Federal Criminal Procedure”

Guest Faculty Lecturer

Executive Protection Program Seminar

Peer Review Committee

Member (1986-2012)

Chairman (2001-2011)

Certified Peer Reviewer Medical & Chirurgical Faculty

Member

Medical Discipline/ Quality Assurance Task Force

Medical & Chirurgical Faculty

State of Maryland

Impartial Medical Opinion Program

General Motors Assembly Program

Baltimore, Maryland 21224

Director & Medical Director

Dependency Recovery Program for treatment of substance abuse

Attending Staff - Psychiatry

Taylor Manor Hospital

Ellicott City, Maryland

Psychiatric Consultant

State of Maryland - Dept. Of Personnel

Staff Psychiatrist - Inpatient

Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center

Jessup, Maryland 20794

Chief, Department of Psychiatry

Baltimore County General Hospital

Randallstown, Maryland 21133

Chairman, Occupational Health Committee

Medical & Chirurgical Faculty

State of Maryland

Community Forensic Screening Program

Pre-sentence Psychiatric Evaluation Program

District Court for Baltimore County

Circuit Court for Baltimore County

Consultant to The Maryland Commission on the Insanity Plea

Psychiatric Consultant

Medical Consultant Staff

Social Security Administration Headquarters

Baltimore, Maryland 21235

Psychiatric Consultant

Baltimore County Department of Social Services

Protective Services Division

Baltimore, Maryland 21215

Director for Mental Hygiene Administration Community

Forensic Services

Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center

Jessup, Maryland 20794

Physician Rehabilitation Committee

Medical-Chirurgical Society

Baltimore, Maryland

Instructor: Judicial Institute of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

University of Maryland

School of Medicine - Department of Psychiatry

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

EDUCATION:

Undergraduate -

Union College

Schenectady, New York - B.S. 1966

Graduate -

S.U.N.Y. Upstate Medical Center

Syracuse, New York - M.D. 1970

Internship -

Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

Cooperstown, New York

Rotating - O; 1970-1971

Residency -

S.U.N.Y. Upstate Medical Center

Syracuse, New York

Radiology - 1971-1972

Residency -

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland

Psychiatry - 1974-1977

MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

American Psychiatric Association – Distinguished Life Fellow

Maryland Psychiatric Society

Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland

Baltimore County Medical Society

Joint Task Force on Injured Workers’ Rehabilitation, 1989

Maryland Psychiatric Society Legislative Committee, 1989,1990

MEDICAL LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION:

Diplomat - National Board of Medical Examiners

Board Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology – 1978

Fellow - The American Psychiatric Association – 1978

Distinguished Fellow – The American Psychiatric Association – 1988

Distinguished Life Fellow – The American Psychiatric Association - 2008

Licensure - Maryland

Washington, D.C.

MILITARY SERVICE:

U.S. Navy - Naval Hospital, 1972-1974

United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, Maryland

Honorable Discharge as Lt. Cdr.

PERSONAL DATA:

Born: Brooklyn, New York -1944

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: 1977 – Present

General Psychiatry - Extensive experience in evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents and adults for a variety of mental health problems and diagnoses. Treatment includes psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic intervention.

Forensic Psychiatry - Criminal:

Extensive experience in the following types of evaluation of defendants:

- Competency

- Criminal Responsibility

- Ability to Form Specific Intent

- Diminished capacity

- Dangerousness

- Mitigation for Sentencing

Extensive Experience in the following areas:

- Testifying on Behalf of Prosecution

- Testifying on Behalf of Defense

Forensic Psychiatry - Civil:

Extensive experience with the following types of evaluation and/or treatment:

- Fitness for Duty

- Crisis Intervention

- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

- Special Issues of Law Enforcement Personnel

- Chronic Pain

- Stress

- Workers’ Compensation

- Medical Malpractice

- Competency

- Testamentary Capacity

- Causation & Damages in Personal Injury Cases

- Occupational Psychiatry

- Industrial Disabilities

- Hiring and Promotional Issues

- ADA Issues

- Sexual Harassment

- Critical Incident & Crisis Intervention

- Pre-employment Evaluations

- Stress Related Occupational Illnesses

- Professional Burn Out

- Pre-retirement Issues

- Harassment in the Workplace

- Violence in the Workplace

- Lead Intoxication in Children

- Eating Disorders Especially Anorexia and Bulimia

- Parental Fitness

- Custody & Visitation Issues in Domestic Cases

Extensive experience in the following areas:

- Testifying on Behalf of Plaintiff

- Testifying on Behalf of Defendant

Acceptance as an Expert Witness in the following jurisdictions:

- All Circuit Courts of Maryland

- Many District Courts of Maryland

- Federal District Court in Baltimore

- Southern Federal District Court of Maryland

- Courts in the District of Columbia and the following states:

- New Jersey

- Colorado

- Iowa

- Pennsylvania

- Virginia

- West Virginia

LANDMARK CASE TESTIMONY:

Thomas v. State of Maryland, 483 A. 2nd 6 Md. (1984)

- Admission of Psychiatric Expert Testimony at sentencing

United States v. Clifton Patterson (1984)

- First federal insanity case litigated under amended Rule 704

Eiler v. State of Maryland, 63 Md. App. 439; 492 A.2d 1320 (1985)

- Psychiatric testimony related to mental state of a potential witness

State v. Allewalt, 308 Md. 89; 517 A.2d 741 (1986)

- Testimony related to post-traumatic stress disorder in a rape victim

State v. Williams (1986)

- Psychiatric testimony about the effects of anabolic steroids as the basis for the insanity plea

Regan v. Rider, 70 Md. App. 503 (1987)

- Testimony on post-traumatic stress disorder in a victim of sexual child abuse

Colorado v. Yaklich (1988)

- Psychiatric testimony about anabolic steroids and their impact on a murder victim

Hoey v. State of Maryland, 311 Md. 473; 536 A.2d 622 (1988)

- Voluntariness of confession; psychiatric testimony related to mens rea; psychiatric testimony relating to ability to form specific intent vs. general intent

Cirincione v. State of Maryland, Court of Special Appeals, 540 A.2d 1151 (Md.App.1988)

- Testimony regarding intoxication with PCP and capacity to form specific intent

Katherine B. Farwell, Personal Representative of the Estate of Brian J. Farwell, Deceased, et al. v. Chong H. Un, M.D.; Linwood W. Briggs, M.D., United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Case No. 89-2091 & 89-2095 (1990)

- Testimony regarding physician duty in involuntary commitment

Shpak v. Schertle, 97 Md. App. 207; 629 A.2d 763 (1993)

- Testimony in a case involving intentional infliction of emotional distress & effects of

sexual child abuse on a victim including the victim’s criminal misconduct

Tracy Lynn Hardin vs. State of Iowa, Court of Appeals of Iowa, Case No. 4-460/03 1089

(2004)

- Issue: Attorney present at psychiatric evaluation; Testimony on ultimate opinion

PROFESSIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists

Marquis Who’s Who in America, 1984-1985 through present

Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1995 through present

Consumer’s Research Council of America’s “Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists,” 2008, 2010

Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 2007-2008

Marquis Who’s Who in the East, 1994 through present

Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1996 through present

Who’s Who Among Human Service Professionals, 3rd Edition, 1991

American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award – 1977 through 2000

Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 1990 through present

International Health Professional of the Year Nomination, 2003

Men of Achievement, 15th Edition, 1996

International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England 7th Edition, 1989

Who’s Who Life Member of National Registry of Who’s Who

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

1975-1977 Principal investigator for a research project with potential sex offenders. Grant support from the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1976 Book Review, Against Our Will, by Susan Brownmiller. The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. IV.

1977 Invited Speaker, First Annual Conference on the Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Aggressives

Memphis, Tennessee

Title: “Hormonal Treatment of Paraphiliacs with Depo-Provera”

1978 Spodak, et al., “The Hormonal Treatment of Paraphiliacs with Depo-Provera”, Criminal Justice and Behavior, December 1978.

1979 Book Review, Law and the Mental Health Professions, by Walter E. Barton and Charlotte J. Sanborn, Editors, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 40, Nov. 4, 1979

1979 Speaker, Tenth Annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Baltimore, Maryland

Title of Talk: “Right to Refuse Treatment”

1979 Speaker, Seneca Valley Association of Occupational Health Nurses

Title of Talk: “Mental Health and the Worker”

1979 Speaker, Baltimore County General Hospital

Title of Talk: “Psychiatric Needs of the Terminally Ill Patient”

1980. Invited Participant in Trial Advocacy Course

Office of the Attorney General of Maryland

Topic: Examination and Cross-Examination of Psychiatric Expert Witness

1981 Lecturer and invited participant in the Advanced Trial Advocacy Program sponsored by the State’s Attorney Coordinator, University of Maryland School of Law

Topic: Examination and Cross-Examination of Psychiatric Expert Witness

1982 Speaker, Course on Psychological Problems During Recovery from Alcoholism and Other Chemical Dependencies

Title of Talk: “The Sociopathic Patient”

1982 Book Chapter: “Forensic Evaluation of Violent Sex Offenders”’ Spodak & Silver. The Sexual Aggressor: Current Perspectives on Treatment, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold

1982 Speaker at 184th Annual Meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. Title: “Stress in the Occupational Setting: Evaluation and Dynamics”

1982 Invited Participant in the Maryland State’s Attorney’s Association 1982 Summer Conference.

Title of Talk: “The Insanity Plea and the Death Penalty”

1982 Speaker at Third Annual Conference of the State Mental Health Forensic Directors.

Title: “Aftercare of the Mentally Ill Offender”

1982 Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Maryland Probation, Parole and Corrections Association

Title of Talk: “Identification and Treatment for the Special Offender”

1982 Invited witness for the National Commission on the Insanity Defense speaking on the insanity plea and the mental health treatment of adjudicated persons

1982 Co-author of paper presented at the 13th annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, New York City, October 1982

Title: “Experience in the Aftercare of Insanity Acquitees in Maryland”

1982 Speaker at Mental Health in the Work Place conference sponsored by Taylor Manor Hospital

Title of Talk: “Psychodynamics of Stress: Work Motivation and Productivity”

1982 Panelist at the Conference on Problem Populations in Local Jails

Title: “Diverting the Mentally Ill From Jails”

1982 Invited participant in Trial Advocacy Course for the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland

Topic: Examination and Cross-Examination of Psychiatric Expert Witness

Speaker at the Symposium in Forensic Psychiatry sponsored by the American

College of Forensic Psychiatry

Title: Objective Criteria in Civil and Criminal Forensic Psychiatric Assessments and in Court Testimony

1983 Speaker at the Convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association

Title: “Occupational Stress: The Counselor’s Role as Consultant”

1983 Speaker at Training Seminar for Assistant State’s Attorneys

Title: “Introduction to Insanity Issues”

1983 Speaker at the Frontiers of Forensic Psychiatry Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland

Title: “Integration of Objective Findings with Courtroom Testimony”

1983 Paper: “Outcome of Splitting the ALI Prongs of the Insanity Plea”, Co-authored with Stuart B. Silver, M.D.

1983 Paper: “Criminality of Discharged Insanity Acquitees: Fifteen Year Experience in Maryland Reviewed.” Co-authored with Stuart B. Silver, M.D. and Christine U. Wright, M.S.W. Presented at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law meeting in Portland, Oregon

1984 Speaker at the Maryland State’s Attorney’s Association Conference

Title: “Dealing With Stress”

1983. Panelist at the First Annual Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Association Conference

Title: “Expert Witness Examination”

1985 Speaker at Justice ‘85 Missing, Exploited and Abused Children

Baltimore, Maryland

Towson State University

1985 Speaker at National College of District Attorneys on Forensic Psychiatry

Williamsburg, Virginia

1986 Keynote Speaker at the 1986 Injured Workers’ Rehabilitation Conference at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Title: “Specialized Approaches to Challenging Cases”

1986 Speaker at Law Career Change Seminar

University of Baltimore Law Center

Title: “Stress and Career Change”

1986 Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association in Ocean City, MD

Title: “Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Work Place”

1986 Speaker at Second Annual DWI Conference

Timonium, MD

Title: “Psychiatric Issues for the Alcoholic”

1986 Speaker at Seventh Annual Conference of the State Mental Health Forensic Directors Program

Title: “Hamilton House - Community Living”

1986 Speaker at National College of District Attorneys on Psychic Trauma

Orlando, Florida

Title of Talk: “Evaluation of Defendants with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with Special Attention to Vietnam Veterans”

1986 Co-author of report published by the National Institute of Justice

Title: “Longitudinal Study of Criminal Insanity Acquitees and Mentally Disordered Prisoners”

1987 Presentation to the Trial Table Law Club - Baltimore, Maryland

Title: “Psychiatric Expert Testimony and Malingering and of the Use and Misuse of DSM-III”

1987 Speaker at Baltimore County Law Club “The Dissenters”

Baltimore, Maryland

Title: “Psychic Trauma, Malingering and The Use and Abuse of DSM-III”

1987 Speaker at American Inns of Court VI

Washington, D.C.

Title: “Expert Testimony at Trial”

1987. Invited participant in Trial Advocacy Program for the Office of the Attorney General

Title: “Examination & Cross Examination of a Psychiatric Expert Witness”

1987 Speaker at the 8th Annual Conference of State Mental Health Forensic Directors

Baltimore, MD

Title: “Aftercare Follow Up of Insanity Acquitees in Maryland”

1987. Speaker at Maryland State’s Attorneys’ Capital Punishment Seminar.

Title: “Refuting the Mitigating Influence of Psychiatric Facts in Sentencing inCapital Cases.”

1987. Invited participant in the program on medical and legal issues in psychiatry and psychology.

Title of Talk: “Providing Expert Testimony”

1987 Speaker - Mental Health and Jails Conference 12/17/87

Title of Talk: “Criminal Justice and Mental

Health: Partners or Adversaries?”

1987 Article in Lawyers’ Weekly Publication December 1987

Attorney’s Guide to Expert Witness

Title: “A Guide for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”

1988 Moderator/Speaker: Annual Meeting of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty

Topic: “Guides for Reporting Permanent Impairments to the Compensation Commission”

1988 Invited participant in Forensic Training Conference

Rockville, Maryland

Title of Talk: “Forensic Evaluation of the Defendant with Mental Retardation at Issue”

1988 Guest on the Phil Donahue Show

Topic: “Women Who Stay With Husbands Who Commit Sex Offenses”

1988 Invited participant in the State Mental Health Forensic Directors

9th Annual Conference

Title: “Conditional Release Programming Experiences in Connecticut and Maryland”

1988 Paper: Silver, Spodak, et al, “Follow Up of NGRI’s, Prison Transfers and Parolees”, presented at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law meeting in San Francisco, California

1988 Cohen, Spodak, et al “Predicting Outcome of Insanity Acquittees Released to the Community”, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Vol.6, No.4, 1988

1988. Invited participant at the annual meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association Meeting.

Topic: “Damages and Settlement in Employment Cases”

1989 Invited participant in the Montgomery County Inns of Court Meeting as an expert witness

Rockville, Maryland

Topic: “The Cross Examination of a Psychiatric Witness Testifying About PTSD in a Personal Injury Case”

1989 Silver, Cohen & Spodak, “Follow Up After Release of Insanity Acquittees, Mentally Disordered Offenders and Convicted Felons”, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1989

1990 Invited speaker & participant for visiting Soviet Psychiatrists

Topic: “Community Forensic Services in Maryland”

1990 Instructor for the National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada

Topic: “Forensic, Medical and Scientific Evidence”

1990 Invited participant on national public radio show, November 1990

Topic: “The Medical Ethics of Treating Incompetent Death Row Inmates”

1991 Invited Lecturer to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board at the 3rd National Administrative Judges’ Conference, 7/10/91

Topic: “Psychological and Medical Evidence Dealing with the Incompetent Appellant”

1991 Instructor for the National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: “Forensic, Medical and Scientific Evidence”

1992 Invited Lecturer at Probate Court Judges Spring Seminar, Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens

Topic: “Mental Health/Mental Illness Diagnostics”

April 1992

1992 “Symposium on Dangerousness”

Title of Talk: Dangerousness in the Aftercare Population, April 21, 1992

1992 Instructor for the National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: “Forensic, Medical and Scientific Evidence”

1993 Script Consultant to L.A. Law (Television Show)

March 1993

1993 Speaker at MICPEL Seminar on “Workers Compensation for Mental Stress” Belcher v. T. Rowe Price

Court of Appeals case, June 1993

1993 Demonstration Expert Witness at MICPEL Seminar for Criminal Insanity

Trial Advocacy Training Program, June 1993

1993 Instructor - National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: “Forensic, Medical and Scientific Evidence”

1993 Talk-Maryland Occupational Medicine Association. “Issues Surrounding the Diagnosis and Management of Workers with Psychiatric Disorders”

10/18/93

1993 Speaker at Maryland Occupational Medical Association

“Psychiatric Patient in the Workplace”

10/18/93

1994 Participation as a demonstration expert witness in the MTLA & MCDAA

Child Abuse: Expert Testimony Under the New Rules: Conference-January, 1994

1994 Speaker at Workers’ Compensation Defense & Occupational Medicine Seminar

“Using the Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Testimony Effectively in Workers’ Compensation Cases”

San Francisco, California, March, 1994

1994 Guest Lecturer at the Sexual Behavior Consultation Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Title: “Psychiatrist’s Role in Legal Disposition of Sex Offenders”

Participant in radio (WCBM) interview show

“Corporal Punishment and Deterrence”

April 1994

1994 Expert witness on panel for Trial Advocacy program, 5/18/94

MICPEL - Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.

1994 3rd Annual National Expert Witness & Litigation Seminar

Lecture: Stress & The Expert Witness

1994 3rd Annual National Expert Witness & Litigation Seminar

Lecture: Examination & Cross Examination of a Psychiatric Expert Witness

1994 Criminal Law Symposium - Invited Participant Discussing Repressed Memory, Multiple Personality Disorder & the Neuropsychiatric Evaluation in Civil and Criminal Areas, December 1994

1995 Instructor - National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: Forensic, Medical & Scientific Evidence

July 1995

1996 Physicians’ Recognition Award

2/1/96 - 3/1/99

American Medical Association

1996 Medical Education Program

Speaker, “Forensic Psychiatry: Special Issues”

Sponsored by Roerig Pfizer

1996 Invited Speaker at the Summer Institute in Environmental Health Sciences sponsored by Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

Topic: How To Be An Expert Witness

1996 Guest Lecturer and Participant in Mock Trial Presentation - American Bar Association/Trial Techniques Committee

Annual Meeting - Orlando, FL

Title: “Proving Complex Damages”

August 1996

1996 Instructor - National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: Forensic, Medical & Scientific Evidence

July 1996

1996 Published Article

ABA Tort and Insurance Practice

TIPS Committee News

Title: “The Psychiatrist As Witness”

Fall/Winter, 1996

1996 Invited Lecturer at the USF&G Trial Advocacy School

November 1996

Title of Talk: Expert Witness Testimony

1997 Guest Speaker for Baltimore County Office of Law

Topic: Psychiatrist as Witness; Issues Related to Workers’ Compensation1997 Guest Lecturer - Overview of Psychopharmacology

1997 Guest Lecturer - Violence in the Classroom; Special Considerations

1997 Instructor - National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: Forensic, Medical & Scientific Evidence

June 1997

1998 Court Talk Radio “Forensic Medicine”

February 1998

1998 Participant & Expert Witness at MICPEL

Topic: Workers’ Compensation Mental Stress Claims

April 1998

1998 Guest Lecturer at University of Baltimore Trial Practices Course

May 1998

1998 Participation in the 1998 MWCEA Conference on Medical Overview: Psychological Disorders in Workers’ Compensation, September 1998

1998 Guest Speaker-Milton Talkin Lecture Series

Topic: Use of the Psychiatric Expert in Civil & Criminal Cases

November 1998

1998 Moderator and Speaker

Maryland Health Seminar for the Maryland State Bar Young Lawyers’

Section of the Public Education Committee

November 1998

1999 Instructor, National Judicial College

Reno, Nevada

Topic: Legal-Medical Issues and Psychiatric Testimony in Court

July 1999

1999 Appearance on Good Morning America, discussing my review of the psychiatric and medical records of presidential candidate, Senator John McCain

December 1999

1999 Appearance on WCBM radio show “Court Talk” discussing forensic psychiatric issues

December 1999

2000 Guest Lecturer at New Directions Behavioral Health Educational Program

Topic: “Professional Ethics & Boundary Issues”

March 2000

2000 Guest Lecturer at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Topic: “Legal Issues in the Mental Health Practice”

March 2000

2000 Charles Fahy American Inn of Court

- Participant in reenactment of the Leopold and Loeb trial

- Talk on “Mental Health Testimony in Civil and Criminal Cases”

Washington, DC

April 2000

2000 Guest Faculty, MICPEL

9 day Trial Advocacy Course

May 2000

2000 Speaker, Lecture on Risk & Threat Assessments for Executive Protection Program

May 2000

2000 Speaker at R.L. Oatman & Associates, Inc.

Topic: “The Lone Gunman”

October 5 2000

2001 Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Senate Bill 499 relating to proposed changes in workers’ compensation permanency evaluations as a representative of the Maryland Psychiatric Society

March 2001

2001 Speaker at R.L. Oatman & Associates, Inc.

Topic: “The Lone Gunman”

May 10 2001

Invited faculty to the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, lecturing on mental health testimony in civil litigation for the course “Evidence for Civil Assistant United States Attorneys Seminar”

May 2001

2 Guest expert in forensic psychiatry on WCBM talk radio w/Bob Scherr

June 2001

Guest appearance on WCBM “Court Talk” radio

October 9, 2001

WCBM “Court Talk” Radio

Topic: Maryland and pleading not criminally responsible and miscellaneous forensic topics

November 2001

2001. Guest lecturer at law office educational seminar on forensic psychiatric issues related to traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder

2001. Invited participant in the 5th National Advanced Forum on Litigation Disability Insurance Claims

Topics: - Mental Disorders, the Latest Medical Legal Trends

- Advanced Medical and Legal Guide to Functional Somatic Syndrome and Other “Subjective Disorders”

- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Mastering Medical Aspects and Critical Litigation Techniques

2002 Speaker at R.L. Oatman & Associates, Inc.

Topic: “The Lone Gunman”

September 2002

2002 Invited guest speaker on “Criminal Forensic Psychiatry, Particularly Lack of Specific Intent”

Maryland Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association

November 2002

2002 Guest speaker on Conversion Disorder and Psychiatric Claims with PTSD

Maryland Self-Insurers’ & Employers’ Compensation Association, Inc.

November 2002

2002. Invited speaker on “Advantages and disadvantages of introducing defendant’s mental state in specific intent crimes”

Maryland Criminal Defense Lawyers Tuesday Talk

January 2003

2003 Speaker on “Functional Somatic Syndromes: The Latest Medical and Legal Trends”

Sixth National Advanced Forum on Litigating Disability Insurance Claims

2004 Speaker at “Malpractice Forum”

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

March 2004

2006 Invited speaker on “Objective Psychiatric Evaluations”

The Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.

April 7, 2006 (MICPEL)

2006 Participant as faculty member & expert witness

The Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.

June 2006 (MICPEL)

2007 Interview on “Forensic Psychiatry in Criminal Cases” for The Legal

Television Network



January 2007

2007 Invited speaker on “Determination of Disability from CFS,

Fibromyalgia, MS and More”

American Conference Institute

Disability Insurance Claims & Litigation

June 2007

2011 Guest speaker on “Competency, Criminal Insanity, the Sociopath,

Malingering, & the Expert’s Role in the Courtroom”

Liberty University School of Law

December 2011

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