Expertise - Key Words: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gender Identity Disorder, Childhood Depression, Prozac and Antidepressant Medications, The Role of Stress in Illness, Job Stress, People Who Go Over the Edge, Why the Public is so fascinated by the O.J. Simpson Story, psychiatric consulting, adult and adolescent general psychiatry and psychoanalysis, expert witness, Psychiatric Disability Consultant, Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Curriculum Vitae

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.

Psychiatric Residency 1972-75 Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center.

Psychoanalytic Training 1973-84 San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry 1981.

Licenses

Physician and Surgeon State of California since 1971.

Drug Enforcement Administration since 1975.

Qualified Medical Examiner ("QME"), State of California, Department of Industrial Relations, Industrial Medical Council since 1993.

Professional activities

Full-time private office practice of adult and adolescent general psychiatry and 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.

Teaching experience

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco supervising psychiatric residents.

Faculty member San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute teaching courses on psychopathology of the neuroses and character to psychoanalytic candidates (founding member of Extension Division Committee on Law and Psychoanalysis that produces educational programs for the legal community with the Bar Association of San Francisco), Hastings College of Law, University of California, faculty, 1997 College of Advocacy.

Public information experience

HealthBeat Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst for NBC affiliate KRON TV-4 San Francisco discussing a wide range of topics including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gender Identity Disorder, Childhood Depression, Prozac and Antidepressant Medications, The Role of Stress in Illness, Job Stress, People Who Go Over the Edge, Why the Public is so fascinated by the O.J. Simpson Story, etc.; occasional guest expert interviews on other local television and radio stations such as KTVU-TV’S "Mornings on Two," the National Public Radio (NPR) program "Forum" on KQED-FM and KGO Radio (list of Broadcast Media Interviews available upon request); interviewed and/or quoted by a variety of publications including Business Week, Contra Costa Times, Metro Newspapers, S.F. Daily Journal, S.F. Examiner Weekend Magazine, S.F. Sunday Examiner Chronicle Business Section, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, USA Weekend and others; Member National Association of Physician Broadcasters and Public Information Committee of Northern California Psychiatric Society and Scientific Editor of News Room, a bi-monthly mental health newsletter published by the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis for the media.

Medical-legal psychiatric experience

Since the early 1980’s, I have devoted 10-20% of my practice to forensic psychiatry as a psychiatric expert in civil matters providing Independent Medical Examinations, consultation and testimony. I have been deposed approximately 30 times and testified in Court 3 times. This activity has been on behalf of both plaintiff and defense, divided approximately 40:60, and has covered a wide range of traumatic and non-traumatic psychological injuries including the following: automobile accident induced facial scaring; death of a parent in house fire secondary to product safety failure; the psychological effects upon a parent of the death of a child who was murdered in a municipal park; the psychological trauma from surviving a commercial airplane crash; burn injuries from a motorcycle accident; traumatic spinal cord injury and resulting quadriplegia in a student who was injured during a junior high school physical education class; wrongful dismissal from employment; effects of stress upon physical health and/or pre-existing illness, e.g., the exacerbating effects of prolonged stress from a real estate dispute upon a congenital, life-threatening cardiac condition; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following rape, following a parking lot assault or following exposure to a transformer explosion; or alleged PTSD following automobile accidents, industrial accidents and disputes, or an in alleged assault where physical damages were minimal, substantial pre-existing psychological illness and/or substance abuse was evident or where pre-existing physical disability and/or psychological illness was alleged to have been exacerbated by psychological trauma. Plaintiff’s counsel who have retained me include Sheldon R. Blum; Dezurick, Edginton & Harrington; Hagan, Saca & Ryan; John E. Lacklen; Romeo & Stevenson; Sheppard, Weissberg & Miller; Sterns, Walker & Lods; Mark L. Webb; and Weinberg & Hoffman. Defense Counsel who have retained me include Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon; Brose & Zouras; Conroy, Shirinian & Mahoney;

Additional professional consulting experience

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder consultant to catastrophe insurance adjuster team at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company immediately following the 1991 Oakland fire and to the employees at Fireman’s Fund Woodland Hills California office immediately following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

Featured speaker on Job Stress at the Corbett & Kane law firm’s "Employment Law Seminar 1994".

Panelist at California State Bar MCLE programs on "How to Handle Violent Clients" in January and May 1994.

Psychiatric consultant to the Bar Association of San Francisco (B.A.S.F.) co-coordination of "Psychological Talks for Attorneys" produced collaboratively by the B.A.S.F. and the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (1994 topics included "P.T.S.D. in the Aftermath of the Petit & Martin Law Firm Shooting," "Recognizing Depression in your Clients, Colleagues and Yourself," and "Job Stress and What to Do About It").

November 1994 talk on "Domestic Violence" before the Family Law Section of the B.A.S.F.

Former member of the Mental Health Advisory Committee to the Board of Supervisors, County of Marin. June 21, 1997

Guest Faculty, Psychiatric Expertise in Trial, College of Trial Advocacy, Hastings Law School, University of California.

1996 Grief/Trauma Consultant to Foote, Cone & Belding Advertising Company concerning the sudden traumatic death of a colleague at an office party.

1998 Employment Consultant to Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Los Angeles, regarding Managing the Dismissal of a Potentially Violent Employee.

Original Articles

(Copies available upon request.)

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 Instititute.

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.

Professional memberships

Member Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Fellow American Psychiatric Association, member American Psychoanalytic Association (Committee on Foundations), California Psychiatric Association, International Psychoanalytic Association (officer of Local Arrangements Committee for 1995 IPA International Congress), board member of John W. Mudd, M.D. Memorial Western Conference on Clinical Psychoanalysis, member National Association of Physician Broadcasters, Northern California Psychiatric Society (Public Information Committee), current Chairman and President of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, faculty member, former treasurer (1987-91) and former Chairman of Finance and Management Committee San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society.

Prior professional memberships

Technical member California Trial Lawyers Association, California Medical Association, Marin Medical Society (prior Chairman of Litigation Support Committee, member of Impaired Physician "DOC" Committee and Ethics Committee); former member of attending medical staffs (when previously practicing hospital psychiatry) at Mount Zion Hospital San Francisco, Marin General Hospital Greenbrae and Ross Hospital, Ross, California.

Biographical listings

Marquis Who’s Who In the West, 23rd edition.

Northern California Register of Experts and Consultants published by the Bar Association of Northern California 1995 edition.

Southern California Experts & Consultants Directory 1996 edition published by the Los Angeles Bar Association

California Trial Lawyers Association Listing of Technical Support ("Expert Witness") Members 1993-94.

Claims Providers of America listing of experts 1995 edition.

Brief Biography

Mark I. Levy, M.D., F.A.P.A.

Chairman, San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis

Asst. Clinical Professor Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

Doctor 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 and a graduate of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been a full-time psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Marin County, California for more than 20 years. In addition, he also devotes a portion of his practice to forensic psychiatry providing medical-legal expert consultation and testimony.

Doctor Levy is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, and he is also on the faculty at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Chairman and President of the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis, a community outreach organization of psychoanalysts, and he has helped establish an educational program on psychological issues for attorneys through the Bar Association of San Francisco, where he has consulted on a wide range of psychological topics including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Sexual Harassment, Psychological Trauma & Abuse, Psychological Injury, Stress, Confidentiality Mental Competence, Depression, Psychiatric Malpractice, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and much more. Doctor Levy is a member of numerous professional organizations and has been interviewed widely by the broadcast and print media. He was the HealthBeat Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst for KRON-TV4, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. He has appeared as a guest medical expert on KRON’s cable station Bay TV and appears frequently on San Francisco's ABC affiliate, KGO-TV7, as well as on Cable Network News and local radio stations including KGO, KCBS, KQED, KNBR, KSRO and KPIX. He has also been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Business Week, Reuters International, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Recorder, and San Francisco Daily Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Parent and Baby Talk and Penthouse Magazine, among others.