Patrick Fitzsimmons, M.D.
400 Carlton Avenue, #4
Los Gatos, CA 95032
408/358-2822
pfitzsimmons@sccma.org


Patrick Fitzsimmons, MD

Education and Training

  • Undergraduate: B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1973-1977
  • Medical School: M.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, 1977-1981
  • Internship: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1981-1982
  • Residency in Psychiatry: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1982-1985
Certification and Licensure
  • Diplomate in specialty of Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1986
  • Diplomate in the subspecialty of Psychiatry with Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry, 1992
  • Illinois medical license, 1982-1990
  • California medical license, 1990-present
Current and Past Employment
  • Private practice of psychiatry, 1985-present
  • Consultation-liaison psychiatrist, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1985-1990
  • Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1985-1990
  • Staff psychiatrist, Santa Clara County Bureau of Mental Health, San Jose, California, 1991-1992
Current Hospital Affiliation
  • Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, California, 1991-present (Chair, Department of Psychiatry, 2000-present. Chair, Psychiatry Quality Review Committeee, 2000-present. Member, Bioethics Committee, 1997-present.)
Professional Societies
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
  • American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
  • American Medical Association
  • Santa Clara County Society of Psychiatric Physicians (past president)
Presentations
Topics include: dementia, Alzheimer's disease, legal mental capacity, competency to make a will, confidentiality in a probate conservatorship proceeding, depression, antidepressant medications, psychiatric medications for the elderly, antipsychotic medications, manic-depressive illness, anxiety disorders, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. I am available for speaking engagements.
Publications

"What's New in Alzheimer's Disease: A Report From the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting," The Northern California Psychiatric Physician, July/August, 1998.

"Humanizing Psychopharmacology," The Northern California Psychiatric Physician, May/June, 1998.

"Where Law and Psychiatry Meet," The Northern California Psychiatric Physician, March/April, 1998.

"Legal Mental Capacity: A Psychiatrist's Perspective," San Jose Post-Record and the newsletters of the Fresno, Sonoma and Ventura County (CA) Bar Associations, February, 1998; newsletters of the Santa Barbara (CA) and Clark (NV) County Bar Associations, May, 1998.

"Ethics in a Probate Conservatorship Proceeding: A Survey of Local Primary Care Physicians Regarding Release of Information," The Santa Clara County Medical Association Newsletter, January, 1998.

"Ethics in a Probate Conservatorship Proceeding: A Survey of Local Psychiatrists Regarding Release of Information," The Northern California Psychiatric Physician, January/February, 1998.

"Dementia and Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults, Part II," California Estates and Trusts Quarterly, Spring, 1998.

"Dementia and Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults, Part I," California Estates and Trusts Quarterly, Winter, 1997.

"Dementia and Decison-Making Capacity in Older Adults" newsletters of the Eastern Alameda, Fresno, Monterey and Santa Cruz County (CA) Bar Associations, 1997.

"Ethics in Psychiatry," The Bulletin of the Santa Clara County Medical Association, January/February, 1994.

"Psychiatry in Medicine," The Bulletin of the Santa Clara County Medical Association, September/October, 1992.

Media Interviews

"Common Sense Helps Seniors Stay Health," Los Gatos Weekly Times, May 14, 1997.
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