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Candidate's Name , DO, DFAPAStreet Address  Sandpiper CrescentMilford, CT Street Address -7952Tel: Cell PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLETel: Home PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEmail: EMAIL AVAILABLE(updated 1/1/24)EMPLOYMENTAugust, 2003 to Principal PsychiatristAugust, 2023 Whiting Forensic Hospital(Effective 5/1/2018, Whiting Forensic Hospital separatedFrom CT Valley Hospital, Whiting Forensic Division as a s freestanding hospital per legislative decree.)Middletown, CTForensic psychiatrist with 24-hour responsibility on in-patient and community reintegration treatment unit.Responsibilities: Admissions, treatment, gradual de-institutionalization and discharge of adult patients acquitted not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) for crimes committed while mentally ill and referred by criminal courts; treatment of civilly committed patients; or treatment of people with psychiatric illness and a history of violent behavior unable to be safely managed in other hospitals or correctional facilities in CT..-Provided periodic testimony before Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) about treatment and progress of NGRI acquittees.-Submitted 6-month reports to PSRB summarizing care and risk assessments.-Petitioned and testified in Probate Court for civil commitment; annual review of civil commitments; petitioning court for appointment of conservators for patients deemed dangerous to self/others /gravely disabled or who were incapable of providing informed consent for psychiatric medications.May 2010 to PsychiatristDecember, 2010 VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEMCOMPENSATION AND PENSIONWest Haven, CTOut-patient service-connected disability evaluations and re-evaluations of military veterans.EMPLOYMENT (continued)April, 2002 to Psychiatric Officer of the DayJune, 2007 VA CONNECICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEMWest Haven, CTEvening, holiday, and weekend shifts.Responsibilities: Psychiatric Emergency Department (ED);in-patient consultations on medical units as requested, andin-patient psychiatric unit.January, 2001 to Psychiatric Officer of the DayOctober, 2003 WATERBURY HOSPITALWaterbury, CTResponsibilities: Admissions; Emergency Department, psychiatric in-patient and consultation as requested on medical units.January, 2004 to Psychiatric Officer of the DayAugust, 2023 and CT VALLEY HOSPITAL, WHITING FORENSIC DIVISION &August, 2000 to WHITING FORENSIC HOSPITALSeptember, 2002 Middletown, CTResponsibilities: Admissions and in-patient psychiatric coverage.September, 2000 to Psychiatric Officer of the DayOctober, 2003 ELMCREST HOSPITALPortland, CTResponsibilities: Admissions and in-patient psychiatric coverage.August, 2000 to PsychiatristJune, 2003 BRIDGES HEALTHCAREMilford, CTResponsibilities: Out-patient psychiatric and substance use treatment. Intake evaluations and medication checks.August, 1988 to Emergency Department Registered Nurse, per diemMay, 1990 JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITALMiami, FLJuly, 1979 to Per diem Nurse; Registered Nurse; Asst. Nurse Manager;April, 1997 Nurse ManagerMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERMiami Beach, FLPROFESSIONAL 2000present: Physician. ConnecticutLICENSURESPECIALTY AND American Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyBOARD Forensic Psychiatry (2005)CERTIFICATION Psychiatry (2003)American Psychiatric AssociationDistinguished Fellow (2011)Fellow (2008)POST GRADUATE Forensic Psychiatry FellowTRAINING (7/20026/2003)YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINENew Haven, CTPsychiatry Resident(7/19986//2002)YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINENew Haven, CTInternal Medicine Resident/Osteopathic Rotating Intern(7/19976//1998)MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTERBrooklyn, NYEDUCATION Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine(8/19935/1997)Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic MedicineFort Lauderdale, FLBachelor of Science in Nursing, cum laude,(1/198012/1983)University of MiamiCoral Gables, FLPROFESSIONAL American Academy of Psychiatry and the LawMEMBERSHIPS American Psychiatric AssociationInternational Academy of Law and Mental HealthAmerican Medical AssociationHONORS AND CT Psychiatric Society Award for Distinguished Service, 2009AWARDS American Psychiatric Association (APA) William SorumAssembly Member-in-Training Award, 2002Disaster Psychiatry Fellowship, APA Annual Meeting, 2002American Psychiatric Association/Aventis Travel Fellowship forWomen Resident Leaders in Psychiatry, 2002Disaster Psychiatry Fellowship, APA Annual Meeting, 2001HONORS AND Yale Psychiatry Residents Association OutstandingAWARDS Resident Award, 2000(continued) Clinical Service Award, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1997Disaster Psychiatry Fellowship, APA Annual Meeting, 1997PROFESSIONAL Member, Pharmacy and Therapeutics CommitteeACTIVITIES WHITING FORENSIC HOSPITAL, 20192023President, Medical StaffWHITING FORENSIC HOSPITAL, 20212023Member, Executive Committee of the Medical StaffWHITING FORENSIC HOSPITAL, 20182022Member, Ethics CommitteeAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW,20162019President, Total Medical StaffCT VALLEY HOSPITAL, 20152016President-Elect, Total Medical StaffCT VALLEY HOSPITAL, 20142015Member, Geriatrics CommitteeAMERICANACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW,20122014Chair, Physicians Health CommitteeCT VALLEY HOSPITAL, 20102013Member, Ethics CommitteeAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW,20082014 and 20052006State Representative to the AssemblyAMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, 20072013Member, Ethics CommitteeCONNECTICUT PSYCHATRIC SOCIETY, 20072013Member, Council of Psychiatry and the LawAMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, 20072011PROFESSIONAL Member, Executive Committee of Medical Staff,ACTIVITIES 2005--2006(continued)PresidentCT PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY, 20052006President-ElectCT PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY, 20042005Clinical Assistant ProfessorYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,LAW AND PSYCHIATRY DIVISION,20042018 and 20202022Early Career Psychiatry Representative andDeputy RepresentativeAMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, AREA I,May, 2003May, 2007Co-authored Action Papers at 2007 Assembly to remove stigmatizing language in Federal gun control legislation referring to people subject to mental health adjudications as mental defectives, which led to a 2010 Position Statement by the American Psychiatric Association denouncing stigmatizing language in gun control legislation.President, Yale Psychiatric Residents Association20012002Chair, Committee on Residents, CT Psychiatric Society1998--2001Voting member of CT Psychiatric Society Executive Committee. Coordinated annual lecture series for psychiatry residents from Yale University and University of CT.Co-Chair, Disaster Planning SubcommitteeSOUTH FLORIDA PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY1997RESEARCH, You Dont Want to Leave? Regret, Re-traumatization andPUBLICATIONS AND Hopelessness as Barriers to DischargePRESENTATIONS Panel Organizer and Lecturer34th International Congress on Law and Mental Health,Lyon, France. July, 2022.RESEARCH, Dreisbach, V. Professor Michael Perlin: Power, Greed andPUBLICATIONS AND the Corruptible Seed: Prosecutorial Misconduct and the DeathPRESEBNTATIONS Penalty. Newsletter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and(continued) the Law, 39:1; 8, 2015.Panelist. You Dont Want to Leave? Regret, Re-Traumatization,and Hopelessness as Barriers to Discharge. 24th AnnualConference of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. Recovering from Violence: Victims, Perpetrators,and Communities. New Haven, CT. March, 2015.Sanchez-Jaquez, C., Dreisbach, V. Not Mentally Ill, NotDangerousand Not Discharged? Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Psychiatry and the Law, 42:2, PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEThe Grey Zone: Effective Forensic Evaluation and Treatmentof the Geriatric Patient. 33rd International Congress of Law andMental Health, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July, 2013.Bonetti, J., Dreisbach, V. Ready or Not? Expert Testimony inCompetency Proceedings. Journal of the American Academy ofPsychiatry and the Law, 41:1, PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEDreisbach, V. Helen Mayberg, MD: The Brain on Trial.Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law,36:1, 9, 2011.Grand Rounds. A Case Study of Psychopathy.Whing Forensic Division, CT Valley Hospital, April, 2010.Panelist. Psychiatry and the Law. Annual Meeting of the CriminalLaw, Public Interest Law, Dispute Resolution, and Medicine andthe Law Societies, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden,CT, December, 2009.Dreisbach, V. Police Interrogations and False ConfessionsRichard Leo, JD, PhD. Newsletter of the American Academy ofPsychiatry and the Law 34:1, 8, 2009.Norko, M., Dreisbach, V. Concerns Related to Federal GunGun Control Legislation. Journal of the American Academy ofPsychiatry and the Law 36:2, PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEPanelist. Tail Wags Dog: Government Bureaucrats DictateStandard of Care. 30th International Congress of Law and MentalHealth, Padua, Italy, June, 2007.RESEARCH, Panelist. Involuntary Medications in Hostage Crises?PUBLICATIONS, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting,AND PRESENTATIONS Montreal, Canada, October, 2005.(continued)Panelist. Pearls and Pitfalls: Getting Started. Early CareerDevelopment Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry andthe Law Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, October, 2005.Panelist. The Involuntary (Surreptitious) Use of PsychiatricMedications in Law Enforcement EmergenciesYes, No orMaybe? 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health,Paris, France, July, 2005.Dreisbach, V. PTSD in Fire and Rescue Personnel. Journal of theAmerican Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 31:1, 120-123,2003.Dreisbach, V. Forensic Evaluations at the Time of Arrest. Journalof the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 30:1, PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLELutwick, L, Dreisbach, V. Gather Ye Pustules While Ye May.Infections in Medicine. 15:8. PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLECOMMUNITY Big SisterSERVICE Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Southwest Connecticut20042005.Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life SupportInstructor. American Heart Association. 19841998.Miami Mega City Special Olympics VolunteerAssisted with physical examinations for participants. 1995.Camillus Healthcare Concern VolunteerProvided healthcare for Miami homeless. 19941995.Rape Treatment Center VolunteerJackson Memorial Hospital. 19921993.Field Hospital Emergency Nurse, Hurricane AndrewAmerican Red Cross Disaster ServicesMiami, FL, August, 1992.