Psychotherapist and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Expert Witness

Expert Witness No. 746

LICENSES 

Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker: 1998-Present

New Jersey Licensed Clinical Social Worker: 1996-Present

New Jersey Licensed Social Worker: 1994-1996

New York Licensed and Certified Social Worker: 1994-1996 

POSITIONS 

Private Practice, Chicago and Oak Park, IL: 01/99-Present

Clinical Services: general, consultative, forensic and supervision

Management Consulting: contracting, program/business development, professional education 

York Behavioral Health Care, Chicago, IL: 01/99-05/99

     ManagerofQualityandNetworkOperations for this MBHO with 350,000 at-risk lives 

PsychPartners (practice management firm) Freehold and Edison, NJ: 04/95-12/98 

     CoordinatorofQuality andOutpatientNetworks

     02/98 Role expanded to include Advanced Providers Systems, the parent managed

               behavioral healthcare organization

     11/96 Advanced Behavioral Health Systems, a multidisciplinary behavioral health practice-network hybrid with over 90,000 at-risk lives     

     04/95 PsychotherapistandFamilyTherapist for Advanced Behavioral Health Systems 

Private Practice, Piscataway, Freehold and Edison, NJ: 06/94-11/98

Psychotherapist andFamilyTherapist

Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY: 10/93-04/95

Psychiatric SocialWorker, Department of Psychiatry, Inpatient and Outpatient Units 

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dunellen, NJ: 09/92-05/93

      PsychotherapyIntern, Community Mental Health Center 

Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children, Bridgewater, NJ:09/91-08/92

      CaseManagementIntern 

EDUCATION 

M.S. in Management, New York University, New York, NY

        Health Services Concentration, 01/98

M.S.W., New York University, New York, NY

        Clinical Program with Internships, 09/93

B.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

        Fields of Study: Sociology, Criminology, French and Philosophy, 10/90 

CLINICAL AFFILIATIONS 

Chicago Lakeshore Hospital, Chicago, IL: Professional Staff

Riveredge Hospital, Forest Park, IL: Professional Staff

Institute for Adolescent Development, Chicago, IL: Professional Staff

Madonna High School, Chicago, IL: Consultant

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Coalition of Psychological Services, Board Secretary

Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Advocacy Project Manager

Humana Health Plans, Credentialing Committee

Humana Health Plans, Clinical Care Committee

New York University School of Social Work,Research Dept. Curriculum Committee: 1992-1993 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

National Organization of Forensic Social Work

National Association of Social Workers

American Correctional Association: 1987-1988 

HONORS and AWARDS 

Listed:       Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1999-2000

First Place: Schmais Policy Analysis Competition

Awarded:   New York State Health Service Corp Merit Scholarship

Elected:      Phi Beta Kappa

Elected:      Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Honor Society

Highest Honors: Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

 PRESENTATIONS 

Anger Management;Interactional presentation to students, Multiple Dates

Identifying & Intervening with Obsessive Compulsive Disordered Students,Professional

Audience, January 19, 2000.

Defending Against False Claims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attorney Audience,

November 18, 1999.

Beating Stress; Corporate Workshops, Multiple Presentations

Diagnosing and Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Professional Audiences,

Multiple Dates

So This Is What Therapy Looks Like; Interactional presentation to students, Multiple Dates  

PUBLICATIONS

Available upon request

Keywords

forensic, expert, witness, Psychotherapist and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker