Medical Mental Health

Accredited Psychiatry & Medicine

Harold J. Bursztajn, MD

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Postdoctoral Training

Licensure and Certification

Academic Appointments

Hospital Appointments

Other Professional Positions

Awards and Honors

Committee Assignments

Community Service

Major Research Interests

Principal Professional Activity

Teaching Experience

Editorial

Bibliography

Reports and Commentary

Book Chapters

Books

Course Co-Director and Faculty

Presentations

Publications

Letters to the Editor

Book Reviews

Informed Consent &

Malpractice

Employment Litigation

ADA - Disability - Sexual Misconduct

Discrimination - Worker's Compensation

Emotional &

Physical Damages

Conscious Pain & Suffering

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Neuropsychiatry and Brain Imaging

Standards for Experts

Product Liability

Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Toxic Tort

Criminal Justice &

Public Safety

Diminished Capacity - Drug Addiction

Competency to Confess

Death Penalty Mitigation

Workplace Safety

Family & Custody Issues

Testamentary &

Contractual Capacity

Professional &

Organizational Ethics

Patient Care - Managed Care - Privacy

Psychoanalysis &

Cultural Perspectives

Harold J. Bursztajn

MD

96 Larchwood Drive

Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone: 617-***-****

Fax: 617-***-****

www.forensic-psych.com

Associate Clinical Professor

BIDMC Psychiatry of

Harvard Medical School

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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

1968: Diploma, Eastside High School, Paterson, NJ

1972: A.B. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1977: M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Internships and Residencies:

1977-1978: Resident in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center

1978-1982: Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Ambulatory

Screening Clinic1979-1982: Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

1981-1982: Chief Resident, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health

Center

Fellowships and Other Education:

1975-1976: Special Fellow, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical

School

1978-1980: Research Fellow, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical

School

1981: Special Student, Harvard Law School

1981: Candidate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

1989: Advanced Candidate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

2005: Special Graduate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

1978: Massachusetts, #43038

1982: New Hampshire, #6592

1984: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, #26278

1994: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Added Qualifications in Forensic

Psychiatry, #38

2001: National Institute of Health Office of Human Subjects Research computer-based

training course on the Protection of Human Research Subjects, #979405050

2001-2002: Medical Care Ombudsman, Medical Care Management Corporation (expert, objective

and independent review in cases of informed medical decisions in all domains of medicine)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1982-1984: Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

1984-1990: Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

1990-: Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

1978-1979: Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, MA

1979-1982: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

1982-1986: Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead, NH

1985-: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA

1986-: Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

1989-:Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND MAJOR VISITING APPOINTMENTS

1968-1972: Health Consultant, Model Cities Program, Paterson, NJ

1978-1979: Acting Medical Director, Concord Unit, Metropolitan State Hospital

1983-: Co-Founder, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

1985 (July): Acting Medical Director, Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead, NH

1994-: Consultant, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

AWARDS AND HONORS

1968-1972: University Scholar, Princeton University

1972: Phi Beta Kappa

1972: magna cum laude, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

1977: cum laude Honors Thesis, Harvard Medical School

1981: Co-winner, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

1983: Second Place, Solomon Award, Massachusetts Mental Health Center

1998: Honorary Mention, Article: Medical Negligence and Informed Consent in the Managed

Health Care Era, The American College of Physician Executives

2002: Nominated as Candidate for President of the Harvard Medical School Alumni

Association by Harvard Medical School Alumni

2002: Twenty-Five Years at Harvard University, Service Recognition Certificate

2003: Harvard Medical School Alumni Council Representative to Harvard University Alumni

Directors

2003-2007: Mentor, Harvard Medical School Academy Mentored Student Casebook Project

2003: External Member, Dissertation Committee, Boston College School of Nursing Graduate

Programs.

2005: Named to Best Doctors of America List

2006: Included in Who's Who in American Education, 2006-2007

2006: Faculty Advisory Board of Vision at Harvard

2006: Nominee, Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award

2006: Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years 3 & 4)

2006: Included in Guide to America's Top Psychiatrists, 2006 by the Consumers' Research

Council of America

2006: Certificate of Appreciation for exemplary leadership and uncommon dedication to

advancing the liberal arts and sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society

2007: Nominee, Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years 3 & 4)

2007: Nominee, Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award

2007: Nominee, William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award

2008: A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award

2008: Project Advisor, Harvard Medical School Academy Mentored Student Casebook Project

2008: Nominee, Harvard Medical School Nominee for the AAMC s National Humanism in

Medicine Award

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

1972-1977: Recruiter, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, Harvard Medical School

1974-1976: Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee II, student member

1974-1977: Boston Alumni School Committee of Princeton University

1982-1986: Peer Review Committee, Hampstead Hospital, Hampstead, NH

1984: International Advisory Committee, International Congress on Psychiatry, Law and

Ethics, Israel

1988: Campaign for the Third Century Committee, Harvard Medical School

1988-1989: Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, Subcommittee II, faculty member

1988-1989: Ethics Committee, Mount Auburn Hospital

1990: Committee on Institute Analysis, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

1990: Massachusetts Board of Registration, Medicine, Consultant and Supervisor

1992: Consultant, Emergency Room and Hospital Medical Directors

1996: Rappeport Fellowship Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law

1997: Subtaskforce on Competency to Stand Trial, American Academy of Psychiatry and the

Law

1998: Advisory and Expert Panel Member, State Justice Institute (SJI) Benchbook Project

on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence, American Bar Association

1999: Advisory Board, The International Center for Health Concerns

1999-2001: Gender Issues Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law

2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Dean's Council Member

2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion. Scientific Symposium

Committee, Chairman

2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion. Reunion Committee

2000-2001: Harvard Medical School Class of 76' 25th Class Reunion. Reunion Gift Committee

2000-2005: Harvard Medical School Dean's Council Member

2000-: Flaschner Judicial Institute Scientific Advisory Panel

2000: Program Standards Committee (PSC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Human

Research Protection Accreditation Program (VAHRPAP), National Committee for Quality

Assurance

2000-2005: Ethics Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

2000: St. Jude's Hospital Dinner Committee

2000: Harvard Hillel Carl Sloane Dinner Committee

2000-: Princeton University Admissions Committee, Alumni Interviewer for New England

2001-: Contributor: Boston Medical Center, The Grow Clinic for Children

2002-2005: Commissioner, ABA Commission on Mental Health & Disability Law

2003: Member, Research Ethics Subcommittee of the Committee on Scientific Activities of

the American Psychoanalytic Association

2003: Harvard University Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Web Advisory Board.

2004-2006: Harvard Alumni Association Graduate Schools and Continuing Education

Committees

2004-2006: Subcommittee on Student Indebtedness, Harvard Medical School Alumni Council

2004: American Bar Association Expert Witness Committee

2004: American Bar Association Advisory Panel member to Health Law Section Web Master

2005: Harvard Medical School Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair

2005: American Bar Association Healthcare Litigation & Risk Management Interest Group

Substantive Web Master.

2006-: Scientific Advisory Board Member, International Forensic Medicine Association,

Inc., (IFMA)

2006: Scientific Advisory Board Member, S2 Security Systems

2006: Mentor, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship

2007-: Senior Associate, The Harvard International Negotiation Initiative at the Program

on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

2007-2008: Dean's Council Member, Harvard Medical School

2008: Program Budgeting Subcommittee, Building and Budget Explorations Committee, Boston

Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

2008-: Scientific Committee Member, International Academy of Law and Mental Health

COMMUNITY SERVICE

1991: Charter Supporter, United States Holocaust Memorial Hospital

1992: Discrimination and Workplace Violence Prevention

1998: Physicians for Human Rights

2000: Voluntary Physician Network Member, Community Health Access Project (CHAP), Boston

Jewish Medically Uninsured Project (BJMUP)

2000: Medical Care Ombudsman Program Member, Medical Care Management Corporation

2000: Atrium School, presentation at Celebration of Science, Math and Technology

2001:

Contributor, Boston Medical Center, The Grow Clinic for Children2005: Contributor, Shady Hill School

2005: Conference Advisory Committee, YIVO

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Psychiatry, medical decision making, ethics, and the law

Informed consent and risk management

Trauma and the life cycle

Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of disability and diminished capacity

PRINCIPAL CLINICAL, HOSPITAL SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Presently: Private Clinical Practice, Cambridge, MA

Consultant to attorneys, clinical practice and institutions

Co-Founder, Program in Psychiatry and the Law of Harvard Medical School Department at the

Massachusetts Mental Health Center

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1982-1983: Psychiatric Decision-Making Seminar, Harvard Medical School Core

1982-1989: Psychiatry, the Law, and the Practice of Medicine: North House Seminar 113,

Harvard University

1982-: Ethics Rounds, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, New England Deaconess Hospital,

Mount Auburn Hospital

1983-2005: Program in Psychiatry and the Law Research Seminar, Massachusetts Mental

Health Center, Co-Director

1991: Extension Division, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute: Clinical Ethics, Risk

Management, and the Psychoanalytic Perspective

EDITORIAL

2002: Editorial Advisory Board Member to the Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter,

American Bar Association

2005: Editorial Board, American Bar Association Bioethics Journal

Oxford Medical Publications

Patient Care

Psychiatric Services

Routledge, Chapman & Hall: Methuen Inc.

Occasional Consultant to:

The Practice Television Series (2000-2001)

The Discovery Channel Education Programs (2001-2004)

National Public Television, Washington, DC (2002)

CNN (2003-2004)

Court TV (2005, 2008)

Peer Reviewers:

Bursztajn HJ. Responses to a defective managed care product: medical negligence, lack of

informed consent, and choicelessness. In: 2000 Wiley Expert Witness Update. New York:

Aspen Law Business/Panel Publishers; 2000:239-264.

Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. Competence and insanity. In: Jacobson JL, Jacobson AM, eds.

Psychiatric Secrets. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus; 2000:485-498.

Deaton RJS, Bursztajn HJ, Brodsky A. The role of the mental health professional in

employment litigation. In: McDonald JJ, Jr, Kulick FB, eds. Mental and Emotional Injuries

in Employment Litigation. 2nd ed. Washington DC: The Bureau of National Affairs; 2001:50-

71.

Bursztajn, HJ, Boersema, RR. Forensic and therapeutic issues in stepparent adoptions: a

psychoanalytic perspective. In: Cath SH, Shopper M, eds. Stepparenting: Creating and

Recreating Families in America Today. New York: Analytic Press; 2001:315-330.

Bursztajn HJ. Preface: Who killed King Tut? In: King MR, Cooper GM. Who killed King Tut?

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books; 2004:11-16.

Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious disorder/Munchhausen syndrome. In: Domino FJ,

Baldor RA, Ehrlich AM, Golding J, eds. The 5-minute clinical consult. 16th ed.

Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008:468-469

Elder WG, Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious disorder/Munchhausen syndrome. In: Domino

FJ, Baldor RA, Golding J, Grimes JA, Taylor JS eds. The 5-minute clinical consult. 17th

ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009:482-483.

Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious Disorder/Munchhausen Syndrome. In: Domino FJ ed.

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 18th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010.

Haque OS, Bursztajn HJ, Gopal A. Post-mortem organ donation: Cultural aspects of death

and burial traditions. In: Schicktanz S, Wiesemann C, Wohlke S, eds. Teaching Ethics in

Organ Transplantation and Tissue Donation: Cases and movies. [PDF] Goettingen: Goettingen

University Press, 2010: 40-41.

Coletsos IC, Elder WG, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious Disorder/Munchhausen Syndrome. In: Domino

FJ ed. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 19th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams &

Wilkins; 2011: 476-477.

Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Suicide. In: Domino FJ ed. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 19th

ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011:1262-1263.

Coletsos IC, Elder WG, Bursztajn HJ. Factitious Disorder/Munchhausen Syndrome. In: Domino

FJ ed. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 20th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams &

Wilkins; 2012 (In Press).

Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Suicide. In: Domino FJ ed. The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. 20th

ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012 (In Press).

Coletsos IC, Bursztajn HJ. Shared Paranoid Disorder. In: Domino FJ ed. The 5-Minute

Clinical Consult. 20th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012 (In Press).

Goldstein AM, Bursztajn HJ. Capital litigation: Special considerations. In Drogin EY,

Drogin F, Dattilio M, Sadoff RL, Gutheil TG (Eds.), Handbook of forensic assessment:

Psychological and psychiatric perspectives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons (In Press).

Books

Reiser SJ, Bursztajn HJ, Gutheil TG, Appelbaum PS. Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case

Approach to Mental Health Ethics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Bursztajn HJ, Feinbloom RI, Hamm RM, Brodsky A. Medical Choices, Medical Chances : How

Patients, Families, and Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty. New York: Delacorte, 1981;

New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1990.

Dilemmas."

Boston, MA, August 23, 1999.

"Brain Imaging and Child Development." Watertown Public School, Watertown, MA, November

4, 1999.

"Premises Liability: Ethical and Effective Psychological and Psychiatric Evaluation Post-

Daubert." ICLE, Atlanta, GA, November 5, 1999.

"Ethical & Technical Effects of Daubert on Experts' Opinions." Four Seasons Hotel,

Boston, MA, December 11, 1999

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"

Legal Issues of Psychopharmacology." Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, April 21, 2000.

"Maintaining Your Credibility & Integrity." SEAK Inc., National Expert Witness &

Litigation Seminar, Hyannis, MA, June 16, 2000.

"The Physician Expert In Court: Ethical and Effective Testimony." Harvard Medical School

CME: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide." Boston, MA, December 2,

2000.

"The Forensic Expert: Beyond It Is Because I Say So." Harvard Medical School: "The Mental

Health Clinician in Court: A Survival Guide." Boston, MA, December 2, 2000.

"Talking to pre-K to Grade 6 Children about 9/11." Atrium School Consultation, Watertown,

MA, September, 11, 2001.

"Protecting Human Research Subjects: Ethical, Regulatory and Scientific Considerations."

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, October 15, 2001.

"The Shoah and its Aftermath on Film: Thoughts on Professional Ethics." American Academy

of Psychiatry & the Law, 31st Annual AAPL, A/V session, Boston, MA, October 26, 2001.

"New Developments in Informed Consent, PTSD, Addictions, Medical Care and the Mental

Health Clinician." Harvard Medical School CME: "The Mental Health Clinician in Court: A

Survival Guide.

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Boston, MA, December 1, 2001.

"Protecting Patient Mental Health Care and Public Safety after 9/11." Hawaii County

Community Mental Health Center, Adult Mental Health Division, Dept. of Health, Hilo

Island, Hawaii, February 21, 2002.

"Aftermath of 9/11 - The Sixth-Month Anniversary." New England Cable News, March 10,

2002.

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DC, November 15-16, 2002.

"The Origins of Violence in Human Society." Harvard Hillel, Cambridge, MA, November 20,

2002.

"Mind Games: Paranormal Phenomena." WCVB-TV, Chronicle, Boston, MA, April 23, 2003.

"Who Killed Julius Caesar?" Discovery Channel, April 27, 2003.

Workshop: "Patient Responsibility for Addiction to Prescribed Substances." American

Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May 19, 2003.

Workshop: "Post-Genocide Psychological Trauma in Film: Under the Domim Tree." American

Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May 20, 2003.

"Epilepsy and Empire, Caveat Caesar." Harvard Magazine. September-October 2003: Volume

106, Number 1, Page 19.

"Patient Responsibility for Addiction to Prescribed Medicines." Institute of Psychiatric

Services Workshop, Boston, MA, October 29, 2003.

"People in the News, Michael Jackson," CNN, January 17-18, 2004.

"The Ides of March." Discovery Channel, air date March 17, 2004.

"Ethical, Clinical and Forensic Issues in Pain Management." Mass General Hospital/New

England Medical Center Pain Care Unit, Boston, MA, April 7, 2004.

"Functional Imaging in Court: Uses and Controversies." American Psychiatric Association,

2004 Annual Meeting, New York City, May 3, 2004.

"Postgenocide Psychological Trauma in Film, The Summer of Aviya." American Psychiatric

Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, New York City, May 5, 2004.

"Avoiding Dual-Agency Pitfalls of Work-related Neuropsychiatric Impairments." American

Psychiatric Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, New York City, May 6, 2004.

"Who Killed Julius Caesar? A new take on Caesar's death." Harvard Club of France, Paris,

France, June 22, 2004.

"Columbus: Secrets from the Grave." Discovery Channel, August 1, 2004.

"Revisiting a Death Foretold: Discovering New Questions for a Classic Mystery." The

Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, October 4, 2004.

"The Science of Zyprexa." Zyprexa Conference presented by Scientific Evidence, October

14, 2004.

"Correctional Risk Management." Correctional Association of Massachusetts Conference,

Milford, MA, October 26, 2004.

"The Body of Adolph Hitler." Discovery Channel, to air October 2004.

"The Body of JFK." Discovery Channel, to air October 2004.

"Becoming expert on experts: from the classics to forensic neuropsychiatry." Federal Bar

Association, Chattanooga, TN, November 11, 2004.

"Who Killed Alexander the Great?" Discovery Channel, November 24, 2004.

"The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra." Discovery Channel, December 6, 2004.

"Clinical expertise in medical product litigation: On not losing in translation."

American Conference Institute's Drug and Medical Device Litigation Conference, New York,

NY, December 14, 2004.

"Forensic Neuropsychiatry of Decision-Making: The Ides of March." McLean Hospital

Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education Grand Rounds, Belmont, MA, March 10,

2005.

"Standards for experts post-Daubert." Continuing Legal Education Institute of Georgia,

May 6, 2005.

"TRAUMA: New Developments in Psychoanalysis." IPA 44th Congress, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil,

July 2005.

"Post-Daubert Standards in Forensic Neuropsychiatry." American Academy of Forensic

Sciences Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, February 23, 2006.

"Going to the Heart of the Matter in Patient Interviews." American Psychiatric

Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 25, 2006.

"Childhood Trauma in Film: Undzere Kinder (Our Children)." World Psychiatric Association

International Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, July 15, 2006.

"Very Hot Cold Cases." American Association for Medical Transcription Annual Convention &

Expo, Boston, MA, August 2006.

"Reflections on My Father's Experience with Doctors During the Shoah (1939-1945)." Boston

University, Boston, MA, November 16, 2006.

"Going to the Heart of the Matter in Patient Interviews." American Psychiatric

Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21, 2007.

"An Analysis Regarding the Effects of Workplace Racial Discrim

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