Psychiatry & Psychology Expert Witnesses

Mark I. Levy M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A. - Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corp

Mark I. Levy M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A. - Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corp655 Redwood Hwy.
Suite 271
Mill Valley, California 94941
USA

Contact: Dr. Mark I. Levy
Tel: (415) 388-8040, Fax: (415) 388-1225

 Website: www.fpamed.com
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Expert Witness - Forensic Expert - Litigation Support - Speaker Bureau


Mark I. Levy M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been practicing Forensic Psychiatry, Clinical Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis for more than 35 years. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and in Forensic Psychiatry and has consulted in more than 350 legal cases and testified at deposition more than 175 times and in State and Federal Court on 33 occasions.

Services

Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corp. provides the following services:

Forensic Psychiatric Assessments/Expert Testimony
Forensic Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Emotional Distress
Psychiatric IME's
Substance Abuse Consultation and Testimony
Psychopharmacology Consultation and Testimony
Psychiatric Standard of Care Consultation and Testimony, both Inpatient and Outpatient
Child Abuse
Child Sexual Abuse
Custody Dispute Evaluations
Forensic Psychological Testing and Assessment
Forensic Neuropsychological Testing & Assessment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychological trauma from man made or natural disasters
Employment litigation
Employment related psychological injury claims
Race, Gender or Age Employment Discrimination
Wrongful Termination
Employment Sexual Harassment
Employment Discrimination
Emotional Trauma
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Head Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury
Will Contests - testamentary capacity and undue influence
Substance Abuse
Boundary (transference) violations (sexual/financial) by professionals
Psychoanalysis
Stress
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
Stress disorders
Domestic psychological and/or physical abuse
Pre-trial and sentencing evaluations
Capital Sentencing Consultation
Sentencing mitigation Consultation


Litigation Support Services

For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Levy has been practicing Forensic and Clinical Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis full-time in Mill Valley, California. He has consulted, provided independent medical (psychiatric) evaluations (IME's) and provided expert forensic psychiatric opinion and testimony nationally, for both plaintiff and defense attorneys in civil litigation, as well as for major insurance carriers, government agencies and the courts.


Areas of Expertise:


Profile

Dr. Levy is the Medical Director of Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corporation (fpamed.com) which includes 3 other board certified Forensic Psychiatrists and 2 Forensic Neuropsychologists. He is a graduate of Columbia College (A.B. 1967) and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D. 1971) in New York. He is a Physician and Surgeon licensed since 1972 by the State of California and the State of Hawaii since 2004. He is certified in Psychiatry (1981) and Forensic Psychiatry (1999, 2009) by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In the past he has served as a Qualified Medical Examiner ("QME") for the State of California (active status 1993-96, currently "inactive"). He is also a Psychoanalyst and a graduate of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco where, among other teaching activities, he lectures in the Law and Psychiatry Fellowship. He is also on the Faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and is the Founder and former Chairman and President of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, a community service outreach organization.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of numerous local, national and international medical organizations including The American Academy for Psychiatry and the Law. He has lectured on a wide range of forensic topics including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the role in personal injury litigation of pre-existing Personality Disorders, patient confidentiality, "Eggshell" Plaintiffs, stress management for attorneys and other topics and much more at state and local bar associations and in various other Continuing Legal Education programs for attorneys. He has written and lectured to medical l audiences and is a frequent media expert and commentator on psychiatric, forensic and mental health issues.

Dr. Levy has been in the full time private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis since 1975 and the practice of forensic psychiatry since the mid -1980's. He currently devotes more than 70% of his practice time to the subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry and Medical-Legal Consultation. He has been retained as a psychiatric medical expert in more than 250 legal cases, have been deposed approximately 100 times and have been qualified as an expert by the State of California Superior Court and the Ninth Circuit Federal District Court testifying at trial on 24 occasions.

In January 2006 Dr. Levy established Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corporation of which he is the medical director.


Licenses

MD - California (since 1972) and Hawaii (since 2004). In addition to being Board Certified in Psychiatry (1981) with Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry (1999) by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Levy was certified as a Qualified Medical Examiner ("QME") for the State of California in until 1996 when he became "inactive".


Professional Experience

Full-time private office practice of forensic, adult and adolescent psychiatry as well as psychoanalysis, Mill Valley, CA. since 1975; Psychiatric Disability Consultant, State of California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation 1975-90; Psychiatric Disability Consultant, U.S. Social Security Administration, Department of Social Services, Disability Evaluation Division, Sacramento, CA. 1975-present; Independent Psychiatric Disability Consultant providing Independent Medical (Psychiatric) Examinations ("IME's") on behalf of individual claimants and insurance companies since 1980. In 2006 he established a forensic psychiatric and psychological group medical practice, Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corporation (www.fpamed.com), consisting of 4 board certified forensic psychiatrists and 2 forensic neuropsychologists, including various subspecialties of forensic psychiatry and psychology such as forensic child & adolescent psychiatry, substance abuse, psychiatric inpatient administration and standard of care and pediatric neuropsychology. Dr. Levy serves as Medical Director of fpamed.


Legal Experience & Services

Forensic Psychiatric Expert since late 1980's, providing Independent Medical Examinations (IME's), consultation and testimony in civil matters.

Summary of Testifying Statistics:

. More than more than 350 medical-legal cases
. Deposed more than 175 times
. Testified in Federal Court and State Court trials on 33 occasions.

Ratio Plaintiff: Defense Expert, Civil Litigation, approximately 33%:67%

Consultants on capacity, sentencing and mitigation issues in criminal matters including death penalty cases.

Forensic Psychiatric Expert, testifying about traumatic and non-traumatic psychological injuries.


Affiliations

Teaching:
Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, U.C.S.F. - currently teaches within the Law & Psychiatry Fellowship program. Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Founder, former Chairman & President of the San Francisco Foundation fro Psychoanalysis, a community outreach and service organization, and is a former officer and board member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society.

With the Bar Association of San Francisco, he helped establish a CLE program for attorneys focusing on forensic psychiatry and the law. He has also been a faculty member, lecturer, and panelist in CLE programs sponsored by the California State Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute. He has been interviewed widely by the professional print and broadcast media. His websites, www.fpamed.com and www.levymd.com are educational resources for forensic psychiatry and are updated regularly.


Qualifications

Full-time private office practice of adult, adolescent, general & forensic psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Mill Valley, CA since 1975
Medical Director of Forensic Psychiatric Associates Medical Corporation (www.fpamed.com).

Former Chairman and President of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis.

Psychiatric Disability Consultant, U.S. Social Security Administration, Department of Social Services, Disability Evaluation Division, Sacramento, CA. 1975-present

Psychiatric Disability Consultant to lawyers, individual claimants, insurance companies and employers (since 1980)

Teaching Experience:

Asst. Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Law & Psychiatry Fellowship, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco;
Faculty, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (formerly San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society);
Hastings College of Law, former faculty, College of Trial Advocacy


Awards & Honors

Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association


Seminars & Training

List of presentations available upon request.


Publications

1. "Stressing the Point: When Are Post Traumatic Stress Claims Legitimate...and When are they Not?" For the Defense, November 1995, Journal of the Defense Research Institute.
2. "Opting Out of Managed Care," Psychiatric Times, September 1995.
3. "Managed Care and Mental Health," Op. Ed., San Francisco Examiner, November 20, 1995.
4. "Depression as a Possible Adverse Effect of Melatonin," Currents, February 1996
5. "Comment: Criticism and Legal Analysis – Mental Health Confidential," - && Patient Confidentiality After Jaffee v. Redmond U.S. Supreme Court Decision," The Recorder, July 24, 1996.
6. "Shrink in the Courtroom: Forensic Psychiatry and Law" published in San Francisco Attorney Magazine December 2000 - January 2001 published by the Bar Association of San Francisco.
7. "Mental Illness in the Workplace" published in San Francisco Attorney Magazine September 2001 published by the Bar Association of San Francisco
8. "Deposing Mental Health Experts on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)," Chapter 716, Lawyers' Guide to Medical Proof, Volume 4 edited by Marshall Houts, J.D., LexisNexis Mathew Bender, 2002
9. "Moms Who Kill: When Depression Turns Deadly" Psychology Today, December 2002 issue - reprinted with permission
10. The “Eggshell Plaintiff” Revisited: Causation of Mental Damages in Civil Litigation" by Mark I. Levy, MD, FAPA and Saul E. Rosenberg, PhD, April 2003 issue of The American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter
11.Unwarranted Restrictions on the independent Examination of Emotional Damages, by Saul Rosenberg PhD and Mark Levy MD, FAPA, Defense Comment – ADC, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2004
12. "Post Partum Depression, Psychosis and Infanticide," The Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, Routledge, 2006


Professional References

Jack Friedman, Carroll Burdick and McDonnough, Walnut Creek, CA
Abraham Simmons, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of United States Attorney, Northern District of California, San Francisco, CA.
Kari Levine, Seyfarth Shaw, San Francisco, CA
Joseph Hoffman, Esq., Weinberg, Hoffman, Casey, Ropers, Larkspur, CA.
Michael Larin, Lynberg & Watkins, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Gerry, Aiken Schenk, Phoenix, AZ
Saul Cohen (formerly of Proskauer, Rose), New York, NY.
Michael Livingston, Esq., Davis, Levin, Livingston & Grande, Honolulu, Hawaii
Patricia Schmiege, Esq.,
Dean Yuzek, Law Offices of Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Carrol & Bertolotti, New York, NY
James Yukevich, Yukevich, Calfo and Cavanaugh, Los Angeles, CA
Patricia Schmeige, O'Melveny & Myers, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Imai, Esq., & Terry Tadlock, Esq., Imai, Tadlock, Keeney & Cordery, San Francisco, CA.
(complete list available upon request)


Education

A.B. 1967 Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY;
M.D. 1971 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University;
Internship 1971-72 Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.(currently UCSF);
Psychiatric Residency 1972-75 Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Cente (Currently UCSF)r;
Psychoanalytic Training 1973-84 San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute;
Forensic Psychiatric Review Course American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, October 1998, 2004, 2008; Forensic Psychiatric Review Course The Osler Institute, March 1999.


Consulting Practice:

All States


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