Trained and board certified in neurology, with additional subspecialty training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Experience includes neurology practice, with years as neurology chair in a major teaching hospital and trauma center; practice and teaching of psychiatry, psychotherapy; and psychoanalysis.

Expertise in

-alcoholism and addiction
-chronic pain
-motivation, secondary gain, and malingering
-doctor-doctor and doctor-patient communication
-physician role responsibilities
-medical decisionmaking
-medical ethics
-distinguishing coexisting psychiatric and medical factors
-explaining medical concepts to juries

Specialties

• Neurology
• Neuropsychiatry

Subpecialties

• Neuropsychiatry
• traumatic brain injury
• cognitive deficits and psychiatric symptoms following illness or injury
• seizures and epilepsy
• psychotherapy
• medical ethics
• complex causation
• litigation consulting