Dr. Stephen Read
Geriatric and Forensic Psychiatry
2566 Overland, Ste 500B
Los Angeles CA, 90064
US
EW #2427 is Board Certified / 20 yrs practice / expert in 300+ cases: federal, state courts, UCLA faculty, capacity, will, conservatorship, nursing home, dementia, elder, financial abuse, ADA, Alzheimer's, frontal lobe, stroke.
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Office:
310 521-9747
Fax:
310 521-8112
EW #2427has served as a medical psychiatric expert in over 300 cases and has been qualified as an expert witness in federal and multiple state courts based on his extensive experience as a clinical, research, and forensic psychiatrist in more than twenty years of practice in geriatric psychiatry. He completed fellowship training in Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurobehavior at UCLA and he is board certified in Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry. He is Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA and is on the medical staff at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, the Los Angeles Air Force Base Clinic and the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Full CV available at
Clinical Psychiatry Experience:
He has had an unusually broad experience in geriatric psychiatry over the past twenty years of practice, with extensive experience in office and home care, acute inpatient care, and long term care settings including residential, assisted living, day care, and skilled nursing facilities. He has acquitted himself well in other administrative positions, including Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Los Alamitos Medical Center and Faculty Attending on the Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
He was the founding Medical Director at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimers Disease, where he pioneered clinical care models for patients with Alzheimers Disease and other dementias. At the French Center (in Los Alamitos, CA) He developed skilled nursing programs for patients who require differing levels of care. Skilled nursing programs were, in turn, integrated with assisted living, day care, community care, and with acute psychiatric care programs; He was also involved in community outreach and as a resource as a speaker and for media presentations. In addition, he continued his previous research collaborations and completed several treatment studies as Prinicipal Investigator.
His current practice focuses on office and home care. Experience with the longitudinal course and complexity of older patients' psychiatric, medical, neurologic, and social factors enables him not only to assess and treat current problems, but also to help patients and their families prepare and plan realistically for the future. The overall principle of care is to develop plans that meet the patient's needs, taking into account all relevant factors. The basis of care is the comprehensive interview and neuropsychiatric examination analyzed in the context of the patient's medical and social situation. He has extensive experience with the use of medications to treat psychiatric and other aspects of patients' conditions. He utilizes psychotherapeutic techniques as appropriate for specific situations. He encourages patients to include family in the care situation. He is also well-qualified to intercede with the staff of various care facilities and with medical settings, as may be needed.
Forensic Psychiatry Experience:
His interest in forensic psychiatry derives from his clinical work, primarily with patients with cognitive disorders and dementia. In 1993 he served as a consultant to the California Bar Association committee that reviewed the requirements for obtaining conservatorship (guardianship) in California; this work resulted in the Due Process for Competence Determinations Act, which has governed the field of capacity in California since 1996. He has now served as an expert in over 300 cases in matters regarding:
- capacity, including testamentary capacity
- criteria for conservatorship
- criminal responsibility
- competence to testify
- undue influence, elder abuse, and financial abuse and exploitation
- quality of care for patients with dementia
- Alzheimer's Disease
- frontal lobe disorders
- stroke and vascular dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- hydrocephalus
- depression
- psychosis
- personal injury
- issues related to patients rights, facility policies and standards of care
- matters related to the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
He has testified before the California State Senate Select Committee on Aging on the subjects of elder abuse and elder financial abuse. He has also worked to expand the analytical framework of the assessment of undue influence, resulting in a recent presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) and he has recently completed a chapter concerning the ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry (to be published in the comng year in the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, the standard reference in the field).
Academic:
Beginning with fellowship training, He has been involved for twenty years in academic and research aspects of geriatric psychiatry. He is author or co-author on more than forty papers, chapters, and articles and has been involved in teaching, currently in the Mood Disorders Clinic at UCLA and as co-coordinator of the Journal Club for Fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry.
His most basic areas of interest are the clinical manifestations and the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. For example, He has recently completed a revision of the chapter on "Vascular Dementias" for the Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry, slated for publication in 2003.
Early research under his direction published in the Archives of Neurology contributed to the recognition that clinical augmentation of acetylcholine in brain benefited patients with Alzheimer's Disease; this approach is now the major therapeutic technique for this wide-sp [[[[ [[[[ [[[[read]]]] ]]]] ]]]] condition. Another major interest of his has been functional imaging in dementia: He is first author of one of the first autopsy-controlled studies validating SPECT imaging as discriminating among differing causes of dementia (published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society). Most recently he has also been co-author on the pioneering work from UCLA on the detection of the pathologic features of Alzheimer's Disease by PET scanning (published in the Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry).
Summary of Education, Training, and Professional Positions:
- Bachelor of Science, College of Agriculture (Conservation of Natural Resources), University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
- Post-graduate studies, genetics and biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, 1973-4
- Doctor of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1978
- Internship (PGY1), Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, 1979
- Residency (PGY 2-4), Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1979-1982; Chief Resident, 1983-4.
- Fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurobehavior, UCLA Medical Center and the West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center, 1982-4
- Faculty, UCLA School of Medicine, 1984-present, currently Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Director, Neurobehavior Inpatient Unit and Consulting Psychiatrist, Nursing Home Care Unit, West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center, 1984-7
- Medical Director, John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease (licensed as skilled nursing), Los Alamitos, CA, 1987-1994.
- Private Practice, Psychiatry, various locations in Southern California, 1985-present
Board Certifications (from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology):
1987--Psychiatry
1991, renewed 2001--Added Qualifications, Geriatric Psychiatry
1999--Added Qualifications, Forensic Psychiatry
Professional Organizations:
American Psychiatric Association
American Medical Association
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
American Association for Psychiatry and the Law
American Geriatrics Society
Clinical Psychiatry Experience:
He has had an unusually broad experience in geriatric psychiatry over the past twenty years of practice, with extensive experience in office and home care, acute inpatient care, and long term care settings including residential, assisted living, day care, and skilled nursing facilities. He has acquitted himself well in other administrative positions, including Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Los Alamitos Medical Center and Faculty Attending on the Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
He was the founding Medical Director at the John Douglas French Center for Alzheimers Disease, where he pioneered clinical care models for patients with Alzheimers Disease and other dementias. At the French Center (in Los Alamitos, CA) He developed skilled nursing programs for patients who require differing levels of care. Skilled nursing programs were, in turn, integrated with assisted living, day care, community care, and with acute psychiatric care programs; He was also involved in community outreach and as a resource as a speaker and for media presentations. In addition, he continued his previous research collaborations and completed several treatment studies as Prinicipal Investigator.
His current practice focuses on office and home care. Experience with the longitudinal course and complexity of older patients' psychiatric, medical, neurologic, and social factors enables him not only to assess and treat current problems, but also to help patients and their families prepare and plan realistically for the future. The overall principle of care is to develop plans that meet the patient's needs, taking into account all relevant factors. The basis of care is the comprehensive interview and neuropsychiatric examination analyzed in the context of the patient's medical and social situation. He has extensive experience with the use of medications to treat psychiatric and other aspects of patients' conditions. He utilizes psychotherapeutic techniques as appropriate for specific situations. He encourages patients to include family in the care situation. He is also well-qualified to intercede with the staff of various care facilities and with medical settings, as may be needed.
Forensic Psychiatry Experience:
His interest in forensic psychiatry derives from his clinical work, primarily with patients with cognitive disorders and dementia. In 1993 he served as a consultant to the California Bar Association committee that reviewed the requirements for obtaining conservatorship (guardianship) in California; this work resulted in the Due Process for Competence Determinations Act, which has governed the field of capacity in California since 1996. He has now served as an expert in over 300 cases in matters regarding:
- capacity, including testamentary capacity
- criteria for conservatorship
- criminal responsibility
- competence to testify
- undue influence, elder abuse, and financial abuse and exploitation
- quality of care for patients with dementia
- Alzheimer's Disease
- frontal lobe disorders
- stroke and vascular dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- hydrocephalus
- depression
- psychosis
- personal injury
- issues related to patients rights, facility policies and standards of care
- matters related to the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).
He has testified before the California State Senate Select Committee on Aging on the subjects of elder abuse and elder financial abuse. He has also worked to expand the analytical framework of the assessment of undue influence, resulting in a recent presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) and he has recently completed a chapter concerning the ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry (to be published in the comng year in the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, the standard reference in the field).
Academic:
Beginning with fellowship training, He has been involved for twenty years in academic and research aspects of geriatric psychiatry. He is author or co-author on more than forty papers, chapters, and articles and has been involved in teaching, currently in the Mood Disorders Clinic at UCLA and as co-coordinator of the Journal Club for Fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry.
His most basic areas of interest are the clinical manifestations and the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. For example, He has recently completed a revision of the chapter on "Vascular Dementias" for the Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry, slated for publication in 2003.
Early research under his direction published in the Archives of Neurology contributed to the recognition that clinical augmentation of acetylcholine in brain benefited patients with Alzheimer's Disease; this approach is now the major therapeutic technique for this wide-sp [[[[ [[[[ [[[[read]]]] ]]]] ]]]] condition. Another major interest of his has been functional imaging in dementia: He is first author of one of the first autopsy-controlled studies validating SPECT imaging as discriminating among differing causes of dementia (published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society). Most recently he has also been co-author on the pioneering work from UCLA on the detection of the pathologic features of Alzheimer's Disease by PET scanning (published in the Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry).
Summary of Education, Training, and Professional Positions:
- Bachelor of Science, College of Agriculture (Conservation of Natural Resources), University of California, Berkeley, 1971.
- Post-graduate studies, genetics and biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, 1973-4
- Doctor of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1978
- Internship (PGY1), Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, 1979
- Residency (PGY 2-4), Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1979-1982; Chief Resident, 1983-4.
- Fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurobehavior, UCLA Medical Center and the West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center, 1982-4
- Faculty, UCLA School of Medicine, 1984-present, currently Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Director, Neurobehavior Inpatient Unit and Consulting Psychiatrist, Nursing Home Care Unit, West Los Angeles Veterans Medical Center, 1984-7
- Medical Director, John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease (licensed as skilled nursing), Los Alamitos, CA, 1987-1994.
- Private Practice, Psychiatry, various locations in Southern California, 1985-present
Board Certifications (from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology):
1987--Psychiatry
1991, renewed 2001--Added Qualifications, Geriatric Psychiatry
1999--Added Qualifications, Forensic Psychiatry
Professional Organizations:
American Psychiatric Association
American Medical Association
American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
American Association for Psychiatry and the Law
American Geriatrics Society
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