
Areas Of Expertise
General Psychiatry
Trained in all aspects of general psychiatry including disorders related to mood, anxiety, psychosis and thought, cognitive functioning and memory, personality, psychosomatic illness, and substance abuse.
Neuropsychiatry
Specialized focus of psychiatric care that deals with the cognitive, emotional and behavioral, that is, "psychiatric" problems which result from brain disturbances caused by medical illness (e.g. delirium), neurological disease, and prescribed and illicit drug use.
Geriatrics
Expert in the impact of dementia on the lifestyle and functioning in the elderly, making accurate diagnoses (e.g. differentiating dementia from depression or delirium), and knowing when medications, behavioral, or environmental interventions are most appropriate. Organizational consultation is also available to those planning or operating nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Psychopharmacology
Expert in the effects of prescription drugs on the body, drug-drug interactions, "psychiatric" side effects of prescribed and over-the-counter medications, and the effect medical and neurological conditions have on the effectiveness of medications.
Forsenics/Medical
Available for expert opinion and testimony in cases involving psychiatric management; disabilities from causes ranging from head injury to pain; malingering; somatizing; all forms of competency and capacity evaluation (past and present); and where psychiatric and psychological profiles are needed.
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