Publications

• The diagnosis of malingering in general hospitals in the United States
• Intravenous haloperidol: A systematic review of side effects and recommendations for clinical use
• QTc Prolongation, Torsades de Pointes, and Psychotropic Medications
• APA Resource Document on Acute Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19 Infection
• Resource Document on QTc Prolongation and Psychotropic Medications
• The occurrence of catatonia diagnosis in acute care hospitals in the United States: A national inpatient sample analysis
• Meta-Analysis of SSRI-Associated QT Prolongation

Psychiatrist - Harvard Faculty

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

I am a consultation-liaison and emergency psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, specializing in the care of patients with co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness. I specialize in caring for patients with medical complications of psychiatric illness or psychiatric medications, as well as psychiatric complications of medical illness or medications. As an emergency psychiatrist, I regularly perform risk assessment for suicide and harm to others and make decisions about whether patients need to be hospitalized involuntarily. Each week, I see dozens of patients with the following conditions: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, personality disorders, PTSD, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and TBI. I teach and supervise medical students, residents and fellows on a daily basis. I completed a psychiatry residency at University of Virginia and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. I am board certified in both psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry and have been teaching at Harvard Medical School for 15 years. I am an editor for the MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry and on the editorial boards of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. I currently hold medical licenses in Massachusetts and Alaska, and have previously been licensed in New York, Maine and Virginia. In addition to general expertise in emergency psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry, I have national or international expertise in the following topics by virtue of multiple peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and presentations: Cardiac Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications: Over 25 peer-reviewed articles and over a dozen book chapters, including a seminal review on QT prolongation and torsades de pointes with psychiatric medications; dozens of national and international talks on cardiac side effects of medications; helped draft the American Psychiatric Association Resource Document for QT Prolongation and Psychiatric Medications; created commonly-used recommendations for cardiac risk stratification in patients using psychiatric medications and specific recommendations regarding the use of haloperidol and lamotrigine in cardiac populations Catatonia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Serotonin Syndrome, Delirious Mania: Over 10 peer-reviewed articles and over a dozen book chapters; dozens of national and international talks on assessment and management of catatonia; helped draft the forthcoming American Psychiatric Association Resource Document on Catatonia; founding Medical Board Member of the Catatonia Foundation; created an algorithm for managing patients with treatment-resistant catatonia; currently working on the first systematic review of medical complications of catatonia, including deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and death. Factitious Disorder and Malingering: 7 peer-reviewed articles and over a dozen book chapters on the subject, including one of the largest studies ever done characterizing malingering in the US Delirium: Dozens of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters; regularly teach medical students and residents about delirium and give a talk to internists about delirium each year as part of the Harvard Medical School Continuing Medical Education Course in Internal Medicine Acute Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of COVID-19: Over a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject; helped draft the APA Resource Document on Acute Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of COVID-19 Psychiatry Residency Training: former Residency Training Director for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program; dozens of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on residency education and presentations at national meetings