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Consulted in more than 150 medical legal cases. Deposed approximately 50 times. Qualified as an expert to testify in State and Federal Court 12 times. Education Dr. Mark Levy, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry with Subspecialty in Forensic Psychiatry and a graduate of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He also received Forensic Psychiatry Review Course Training from the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law and the Osler Institute. Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis For almost 30 years, Dr. Levy has been practicing clinical psychiatry and psychoanalysis fulltime in California. During the past two decades he has devoted a substantial portion of his clinical practice to forensic psychiatry, providing independent medical evaluations and expert forensic psychiatric opinion and consultation nationally for plaintiff and defense trial attorneys and insurance carriers. Academic Positions and Teaching Since 1976, Dr. Levy has been on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, U.C.S.F. He is also on the faculty at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he teaches psychoanalytic candidates. Public Service He presently serves as Chairman, and immediate past President, of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, a community outreach and service organization of psychoanalysts and community members, that Dr. Levy founded in 1994 at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. He is also a former officer and Board member of the Society. Professional Organizations Together with the Bar Association of San Francisco, Dr. Levy helped establish an educational program for attorneys focusing upon psychological issues. Within this program, he has spoken on a broad array of issues covering the interface of law and psychiatry, as well as other matters affccting the two disciplines. The topics he's discussed include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Sexual Harassment, Psychological Trauma and Abuse, Psychological Injury, Stress, Confidentiality, Mental Competency Evaluation, ADA, Depression, Psychiatric Malpractice, Boundary Violations, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and more. He has also been a speaker at MCLE events sponsored by the California State Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and Hastings Law School. Licenses and Certification M.D. License in California. In addition to being Board Certified in General & Forensic Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Levy was certified as a Qualified Medical Examiner for the State of California in 1993 and maintained his active QME status until 1996 (currently inactive). Media Interviews As an expert, Dr. Levy has been interviewed widely by the broadcast and print media. He was the HealthBeat Psychiatrist for KRON-TV4, the then NBC affiliate station in San Francisco and is currently a medical advisor to KNTV, NBC3. He also appeared regularly as a guest medical expert on KRON's cable station Bay TV and on San Francisco's ABC affiliate, KGO-TV7, as well as CBS affiliate KPIX-TV5. He has also appeared on CNN, Fox News and on national and local radio stations including NPR, KGO-AM, KCBS-AM, KQED-FM, KNBR-AM, and KSRO-AM. Finally, Dr. Levy has been interviewed and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Business Week, Reuters International, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, The San Francisco Recorder, San Francisco Daily Journal, LA Daily Journal, California Lawyer Magazine, Parent and Baby Talk, ABC Online, MSNBC, American Health, Penthouse Magazine and many others. | |||||||||||||||
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