Psychiatry & Addiction Expert Witness | Maryland

Expert Qualifications

This expert is board certified psychiatrist and addiction specialist, and also is certified by the American Board of Disability Analysts. He is an expert in handling capital, personal injury, loss mitigation, malpractice and negligence cases that involve the use of abused substances (especially, opiates, alcohol, hallucinogens, and stimulants), prescribed pharmacological agents, and in the general field of psychiatric and brain disease. This expert also is a leading neuroscientist and neuropsychopharmacologist. He can provide expert testimony on the effects of different brain states and function, in both health and disease, and their potential association with with legal culpability and liability. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at a leading university in the USA, and has over 12 years experience as Chairman in Psychiatry Departments in the USA. His research focus is in the neuropsychopharmacology of addiction, addiction and pain, pain treatment, impact of genetics on human behavior, the basic, molecular, and the brain imaging sciences related to the functioning of the brain in health, disease and addiction. In recognition of his academic, scholarly and professional achievement, he is a Fellow of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the recipient of numerous professional and scientific awards, including the Jack Mendelson Award at the NIH, which is awarded to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to our understanding of the science of addiction. He has an h-index of 46, and 11829 citations of his published work.

Bio Snapshot

Location: MD

Diploma: Institute Catholique de Paris

MD (equivalent): University of Glasgow

MS: University of London

PhD: University of Glasgow

Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Certified, Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)

Member, British Association of Psychopharmacologists

Member, British Neuropsychiatry Association

Member, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Member, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Fellow, American College of Forensic Examiners Institute

Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

Fellow, Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum

Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

Former, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas

Former, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Texas

Former, Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia

Former, Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland

Former, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland

Current, distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology, a prominent East Coast medical school

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