Guest discussant, Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, has come from Worcester, Massachusetts, to join us today. Dr. Appelbaum is the A.F. Zeleznik Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chairman of Psychiatry, and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Dr. Appelbaum holds a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and followed that with training in law and psychiatry at Harvard Law School, and in public health at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Appelbaum is the author of many articles and several books on law in clinical practice. Most recently he co-edited Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies, and co-authored Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals.
He is also currently Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Ruth Dukoff, program presenter, is a senior staff fellow in the Geriatric Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. She earned a medical degree at Cornell University Medical College, and completed a psychiatric research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, followed by a psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Dukoff came to NIH in 1994 as a fellow in the Geriatric Psychiatry Branch of NIMH. She has been with them ever since. She is also on the faculty of the Department of Health Care Sciences at the George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Dukoff serves on the NIH Clinical Center Ethics committee and the Maryland Attorney General's Research Working Group. Her research interests include Alzheimer's disease, depression in the elderly, and informed consent in cognitively impaired subjects.
Moderating this discussion is Dr. Robert Wittes, director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, in the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Wittes earned undergraduate and medical degrees at Harvard, followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital.
He came to the NIH in 1970 as a research associate in NCI's Laboratory of Biochemistry. After two years there, he went to New York City to spend more than a decade working at Memorial Hospital. He was assistant chief of the Solid Tumor Service when he left Memorial in 1983 to rejoin NCI. He has been here ever since. In addition to his present position, Dr. Wittes is also NCI's deputy director for extramural science.
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