printForensic, Clinical Psychiatry & Neurotoxicology Expert Witness
Lawson Bernstein, MD, PC
P.O. Box 81977Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15217
USA
Contact: Dr. Lawson F. Bernstein
Tel: (412) 422-9240, Fax: (412) 422-5203
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Lawson Bernstein, MD, PC is a board certified forensic neuropsychiatrist with expertise in brain injury, stroke, toxic environmental exposure, drug and alcohol abuse, PTSD and other related areas in neurology and psychiatry. He has extensive expertise in criminal and civil matters, as well as death penalty case experience. He is an Assistant professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and also teaches, lectures and is academically published.
Services
Lawson Bernstein, MD, provides forensic neuropsychiatric services including but not limited to:
Evaluation of civil and criminal matters/litigants/defendants
Medicolegal consulting
Death penalty/diminished capacity (psychiatric defense) case evaluations
Neurotoxicology
Pharmacology
Americans with disabilities act cases
Brain injury/stroke/spinal cord injury
Burn trauma
Chronic pain
Gambling/alcohol/drug and other addictions
Litigation Support Services
Lawson Bernstein, MD, has provided since 1991 neuropsychiatric treatment & consulting services with expertise in the assessment and treatment of closed head injuries, stroke, toxic environmental exposure, chronic pain conditions and other neurological/ neuropsychiatric conditions.
Areas of Expertise:
- Addictions
- Agoraphobia
- AIDS/HIV
- Alcohol
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Amnesia
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety Disorders
- Aphasia
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Autism
- Brain and Spinal Diseases
- Brain Injury
- Burns
- Carbon Monoxide
- Cerebral Palsy
- Child Abuse
- Child Psychology
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Pain
- Clinical Psychiatry
- Closed Head Injuries
- Codependency
- Concussion
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Criminal Responsibility
- Dementia
- Depressive Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders
- Drug Addiction
- Drug Testing
- Eating Disorders
- Environmental Medicine
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
- Fibromyalgia
- Forensic Medicine
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Forensic Psychology
- Gambling Addiction
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Gulf War Syndrome
- Head Injury
- Hospitals
- Huntington's Disease
- Hyperbaric Medicine
- Insomnia
- Internet Addiction
- Investigation
- Language Disorders
- Medical
- Medical Malpractice
- Meningitis
- Mental Health
- Migraine
- Mood Disorders
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Munchausen's Syndrome
- Narcolepsy
- Neurological Diseases
- Neurology
- Neuropsychiatry
- Neuropsychology
- Neurotoxicology
- Otoneurology
- Pain Management
- Panic Disorder
- Parkinson's Disease
- Patient Rights
- Personal Injury
- Personality Disorders
- Pharmacology
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R)
- Pornography Addiction
- Porphyria
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Postpartum Depression
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Prion Diseases
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
- Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Seizures
- Self-Injury
- Sensory Deprivation
- Serial Killers
- Sexual Addiction
- Sexual Disorders
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Sleep Apnea
- Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Medicine
- Smoking Addiction
- Social Phobia
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Standard of Care
- Stress Management
- Stroke
- Stuttering
- Substance Abuse
- Suicide
- Syphilis
- Tobacco
- Toxic Environmental Exposure
- Toxicology
- Trauma
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Vestibular Disorders
- Violence
- Whiplash
- Wilson's Disease
Profile
Dr. Bernstein is a board certified academically published forensic neuropsychiatrist with expertise in brain injury, neurotoxicology, chronic pain substance abuse.
He is a State & Federal Government psychiatric consultant and has extensive criminal/civil trial experience.
He is currently the neuropsychiatric clinical consultant to the HealthSouth Harmarville Brain Injury and Chronic Pain Programs, to the ICU at St. Margarets Memorial Hospital and to various clinical services at UPMC Oakland.
He is a forensic consultant to the Allegheny County Office of the Public Defender, Federal Defenders Offices of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and other regional forensic agencies/facilities.
From 1991-1994, Dr. Bernstein was Director of the General Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of the largest academic psychiatric training programs in the U.S.
Throughout his career Dr. Bernstein has received honors such as:
1983-Salk Award; Outstanding Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences "Hyper Hydroxylation of Estradiols in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"; Hunter College, CUNY
1987-Diethelm Award; Outstanding Medical Student/Psychiatry; Cornell University Medical College
1991-Llahmon Prize; Outstanding Psychiatric Resident Research; New York Hospital/Payne Whitney Clinic
1991-Outstanding Psychiatric Resident Research, 2nd Prize; American Psychiatric Association, Area 2 Council
1991-Granet Prize; Best Resident Consultation Psychiatry; New York Hospital/Payne Whitney Clinic
Licenses
Specialty Certifications:
1992 American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology #36050
1996 American Board of Forensic Medicine #1164
1996 Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Examiners #3505
Medical Licensures:
1988 New York State Board of Medicine #176951
1991 Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine #MD-044058-L
Professional Experience
1994 - Present
Lawson F. Bernstein M.D., P.C. -Neuropsychiatric consulting practice
2000 - Present
State Senate Subcommittee on Youth & Aging
Initiative on Violence & Mental Illness, Harrisburg, PA
1998 - Present
Greater Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Hospital
1997 - Present
Consulting & Teaching Staff, St. Margarets Memorial Hospital/ICU
1994 - Present
Forensic Psychiatric Consultant, Office of the Public Defender of Allegheny County & Court of Common Pleas
1991 - Present
Harmarville Rehabilitation Center
1998 - 1999
UPMC/Passavant Hospital
1993 - 1995
Member; Governor's Task Force for State Mental Health Planning Council
1992 - 1995
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Director, General Psychiatry Training Program
1992 - 1994
Chairperson, AADPRT Committee on Managed care
1992 - 1994
UPMC Brain Injury Program
1992 - 1993
Allegheny County Jail, Psychiatric Consultant
1991 - 1993
Department of Corrections, Pittsburgh, PA, Psychiatric Consultant
1991 - 1995
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Psychiatric Consultation Trauma & Toxicology Programs
Legal Experience & Services
Dr. Bernstein has both civil and criminal trial experience working 50/50 for plaintiff/defense and he is equally a consultant to multiple national law firms, federal & state agencies. (References on request)
Affiliations
1996 - American Society of Addiction Medicine
1996 - American College of Forensic Examiners
1995 - American Medical Association & Allegheny County Medical Society
1994 - Board Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
1992 - 1994 American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training
1991 - American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
1986 - American Psychiatric Association
Qualifications
Cornell University Medical College-1987
New York Hospital, Residency in Psychiatry-1991
Board certified by Am, Bd. Psychiatry & Neurology - 1993
Board Examiner for Am. Bd. Psychiatry & Neurology - 1994 to present
Publications
1. Bernstein, L., Jacobsberg, L., Ashman, T., Musagni, G., Goodwin, C., Perry, S.: Detection of alcoholism in burn patients. Hospital & Community Psychiatry 43(3):255-256; 1992.
2. Bernstein, L. & Daviss, S.: Organic anxiety disorder with symptoms of akathisia in a patient treated with the immunosuppressant FK506. General Hospital Psychiatry. 14:210-211; 1992.
3. Bernstein, L.: Trazodone treatment of targeted aggression in a mentally retarded man. ,The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 4(3):348; Summer 1992.
4. Bernstein, L.: Abrupt cessation of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder with the addition of low-dose L-Tetraiodothyronine (T4) to Lithium.. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 12(6):443-444; December 1992
5. Bernstein, L. & Levin, R.: Catatonia responsive to intravenous Lorazepam in a patient with cyclosporine neurotoxicity and hypomagnesemia. Psychosomatics 34(1); Jan/Feb 1993.
6. Bernstein, L: Pain Perception and Serum Beta Endorphin in Trauma. Psychosomatics 36 (3), May-June 1995
Review Articles/CMES & Book Chapters
A. Bernstein, L.: Mental Disorders, Tests & Drugs In Psychological and Scientific Evidence in Criminal Trials, 3d edition, JC Moriarity, Ed.., West Group, St. Paul, MN-2000/in press
B. Bernstein, L.: Burn Trauma. In Principles of Medical Psychiatry, 3d edition, Stoudemire & Fogel Eds., Oxford University Press, New York, NY; 1999
C. Bernstein, L.: Mentally disordered prisoners. Book review. J. Gunn, T. Maden, & M. Swinton, Eds., The Home Office. Journal Criminal Behavior & Mental Health; 1992.
D. Bernstein, L.: Residency Training and Health Care Reform. AADPRT Newsletter, Drell, Ed., School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
E. Bernstein, L.: Burn Trauma In Acute Pain Management., In Press/1998
Professional References
Provided upon request
Education
Cornell U College of Medicine 1987
New York Hospital Internship and Residency 1991
Board certified ABPN in 1993
Consulting Practice:
All States
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