Medical Mental Health

Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin Crocker, MD

Personal Information

Business Address: 208 Vaughan St. Portland Maine 04102

Business Telephone: 207-***-****,

Business Fax: 888-***-****

Email Address: ********.*******@***.***

Home Address: 13 Carroll St., Portland, Me. 04102

Home Telephone: 207-***-**** Mobile Phones: 207-***-****, 207-***-****

Date of Birth July 19, 1946, Cleveland, Ohio

Education

High School: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1961-4

College: Occidental College, Los Angeles, Ca., 1964-6

New York University, NY, NY, BA English, 1968

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1972-4, Premed

Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, Mass, 1973

Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, 1974-9, MD

Postgraduate Medical

Training: Internship (Psychiatry) University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI, July 1, 1979 to June 30, 1980.

Residency in Psychiatry, July 1, 1980 to December 30, 1980, University of Michigan Hospitals

Residency in Psychiatry, January 1, 1981 to June 30, 1984, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center

Fellowship in Outpatient Psychiatry, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, July 1984-June 1986.

Honors and Awards: Sandoz Award, USC Department of Psychiatry, 1984

LA County DMH HUGS Award, 1995

Outstanding Professor, 4th semester, Fall 2001, and Summer 2002, St. Matthews University School of Medicine

In April 2010 I got the Ollie Jacobson Award for devoted service from the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians.

Licensure: Maine 013127, 1991 UPIN#A49504 NPI: 184*******

California, G043952, 1980 Licensed in NH as well. I have a suboxone waiver for 100 patients.

Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1988

National Board of Physicians and Surgeons 2017

Certified in Community Psychiatry by the American Association of Community

Psychiatrists 2017

Academic Appointments:

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry, 1985-95

Clinical Assistant Professor of Sociology, USC Department of Sociology, 1991-4

Lecturer, USC School of Occupational Therapy, 1985-6

Lecturer, University of New England Physician Assistant Program, 1997.

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont School of Medicine, 1998-2007

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, St. Matthew’s University, 2001-2003.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University medical School, 2016 -present

Employment History: Psychiatric Consultant, Hillview Mental Health Center, Lake View Terrace, California, 1983-93

Staff Psychiatrist, Psychiatric Emergency Service, LAC-USC Medical Center, October 1986- March 1987

Consultant, State of California Department of Rehabilitation, 1989-90.

Staff Psychiatrist, Student Counseling Center, California State University, Los Angeles, 1989-94

Psychiatric Consultant, Human Relations Center, University of Southern California, 1991-4.

Psychiatric Consultant, Family Practice Residency, Glendale Adventist Hospital, 1992-3

Medical Director, Intensive Case Management Team, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, 1993-5

I maintained a private practice of psychiatry in various locations of Los Angeles County, 1983-96.

Staff Psychiatrist, Maine Medical Center, 1995-2002 and 2011 to present.

Staff Psychiatrist, Tri-County Mental Health, Bridgton, Me., June, 1995 to March 1997.

Acting Medical Director, Maine DMHMRSAS Region I, June-August 1997.

Medical Director, Maine DMHMRSAS Region II, November 1997-March 2000.

Locum Tenens Staff Psychiatrist, Village ISA, Long Beach, California, March-July 2000 (while on leave of absence from job at Maine Medical Center), and again January-April 2014.

Consultant, CSI, Saco, Me., August 2000-May 2001.

Consultant, Region II Maine DMHMRSAS/BDS/DHHS, August 2001-2012.

Faculty, St. Matthews University School of Medicine, Windham, Me., May 2001-December 2003

Consultant, Medical Care Development, Skowhegan and Norway, Maine, August 2002-December 2004, and 2013 to present.

Consultant, Westside Neurorehabilitation Services, Lewiston, Maine, June 2002-June 2003

Consultant, Crisis and Counseling, Augusta, Maine, March 2003- November 2010. Medical Director for Medication Services, Jan-May 2009 and November 2017 to present

Medical Director, MMC PHO Behavioral Health Care Plan, April 2003- January 2014. Continue there as contract consultant.

Psychiatric Consultant, Central Maine Medical Center Family Practice Center, Lewiston, Maine, 2005-2010

Consultant, Spring Harbor Counseling/Western Maine Family Practice psychiatric consultation project, Norway, Maine, March 2006-June 2012

Consultant, US. Military Entrance Processing Center, Portland Maine, Nov 2007-June 2010

Staff physician, Youth Alternative Ingraham, Portland, (Now Opportunity Alliance) June 2008-April 2010 (and several other shorter per diem locums with this agency 1997-2012).

Assistant Medical Director, APS Healthcare, South Portland, April to August 2010, Medical Director August 2010 to January 2014.

I am on staff at, Mercy, Midcoast, Maine General and Spring Harbor Hospitals and Maine and Southern Maine Medical Centers. In the past couple of years I have done episodic per diem work at 4 of these hospital systems, including helping some of them with suboxone prescribing programs.

From April 2014 to the present I have been the Medical Director of Maine Medical Center Psychiatry Partial Hospital Program and also do several afternoons a week of outpatient services at MMC Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic.

From July 2014 to July 2017 I was Medical Director for the Maine Behavioral Health CORE ACT team in Brunswick Maine.

Since the summer of 2015 I have been Medical Director of Peabody House services in Portland.

From November 2015 to July 2017 Medical Director of Woodford’s Family Services in Westbrook.

In addition I have performed a number of locum tenens and per diem jobs over the years for several agencies and hospitals in the Southern Maine area.

Since 2007 I have monitored several psychiatrists subject to board discipline under the auspices of the Maine Medical and Osteopathic Boards and continue informal supervision of some of these psychiatrists as they have emerged from Board Discipline.

I also maintain a small consulting private practice in psychiatry.

Professional

Memberships: American Psychiatric Assn. 1983-present. Distinguished Fellow 2005. Distinguished Life Fellow 2013.

Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 1983-93

Phobia Society of America (now ADAA) 1983-96

Association for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, 1984-97.

Southern California Psychiatric Assn., 1983-94, Councilor 1993-4

American Association of Community Psychiatrists, 1986-present;

Area 6 Representative to the Board of Directors, 1992-6; Secretary, 1996-2002.

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 1991-3, 2005-7

American Orthopsychiatric Assn. 1995-2003

Maine Psychiatric Assn. 1996-present, Secretary 1998-9, Committee on Consultation Project, 2003, Chair, Program Committee 2004, Govt. and Legislative Affairs Comm. 2005-6, Chair, Ethics Committee 2012- present.

Maine Medical Assn., 2000-present.

National Assn. for the Dually Diagnosed, 1999-2006

American Association of Psychiatric Administrators 2000-2014

Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group, 2006-7

CFHA 2007-2012

ASAM 2008-present

Research Experience:

In medical school I was awarded a Roessler Research Fellowship for 6 months, in psychiatry. I worked on two projects, one comparing RDC and DSMII diagnoses of consecutive inpatient admissions, and one studying the response of hyperphagic rats to protriptyline.

At the University of Michigan I participated in several research projects under Bernard Carroll, MD, involving various neuroendocrine tests for endogenous depression.

At the University of Southern California I participated in a series of medication outcome studies regarding the treatment of panic disorder, agoraphobia, and social phobia. Finally I got my name on some papers.

Presentations: I presented on integrating psychotherapy and medication at the 1986 and 1988 meeting of the Phobia Society of America (Now the Anxiety Disorders Association of America)

I presented on a panel on consumers as providers at the 1994 NAMI conference in San Antonio, and again at the Institute on Hospital and Community Psychiatry in 1994. I presented a workshop on psychiatric intensive case management at the1995 Hospital and Community Psychiatry meeting. I presented on panels at the 1994, 1997 and 1999 national NAMI conferences on issues pertaining to provider/family/consumer interfaces. I presented on integrating residential, health and psychiatric services for people with mental retardation in residential services at the 2003 Institute for Psychiatric Services. I participated in 3 sessions at the 2006 Institute for Psychiatric Services on Medicare D, Primary Care-Mental Health Integration, and medication group treatment. I presented on medication groups at the 2011 Institute on Psychiatric Services and at the 2012 American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, and I organized a symposium on suboxone prescribing in groups for the 2012 IPS. I chaired a workshop on medication groups at the 2015 IPS. I routinely do poster sessions on medication pricing and utilization management at national and local psychiatric meetings.

Informal Teaching: I have presented CME lectures at dozens of community hospitals in Southern California, and at several CME series for community physicians at the University of Southern California, and presented

at Grand Rounds at Maine Medical Center, AMHI and BMHI.

Formal Teaching: I taught courses in psychopharmacology, diagnosis and

Substance Abuse at a doctoral program for family counselors at

USC Human Relations Center 1993-4, and taught Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology at St. Matthews University College of

Medicine in Windham, Maine, 2001-3. From May 2005 to May 2010 I was a preceptor at the Central Maine Medical Center Family

Practice Program. I have taught a course in the history of psychiatry at the MMC psychiatric residency in 2006 and 2008. I supervised residents and medical students at USC school of medicine 1986-95 and at Maine Medical Center 1995-2002, and again in 2016-present.

Military Service: I served in the US Navy December 1968 to September 1972, attaining a rank of E-5. I was awarded the Good Conduct Medal and the Viet Nam service medal.

Volunteer Service Visiting Supervisor, Los Angeles Free Clinic 1993-4

Psychopharmacology consultant, All Saints AIDS Service Center, Pasadena, 1993-4.

I ran a small anxiety disorders clinic at Arcadia Mental Health Center of the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health in the

winter and spring of 1995.

I did some pro bono consultations for Maine BMR clients between

periods of state employment in this area, 2000-2001.

I have worked without charge prescribing suboxone at hospital

and freestanding community programs in Maine, 2013-present.

I volunteer as Medical Director at Franny Peabody Ctr. In Portland

Publications: Bibliography available on request.

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