Curriculum Vitae
William Alan Wittlin, M.D., Ph.D.
| Education | |
| 1992-1997 | Ph.D. Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies |
| 1981 | Board Certification, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology |
| 1976 | Residency in Psychiatry, Ft. Logan Mental Health Center, Denver, CO |
| 1973 | Pediatric Intern, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| 1972 | M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, NY |
| 1968 | B.A., Franklin and Marshall College, Philosophy and Psychology |
| Positions Held | |
| 1999-present | Psychiatrist, solo private practice specializing in Child, Student and Adult psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, Ithaca and Skaneateles, NY |
| 1998-2000 | Psychiatrist, New York State Office of Children’s and Family Services |
| 1998-1999 | Director, Forensic Psychiatry, Broome County MHC, Binghamton, NY |
| 1991-1997 | Outpatient psychiatric practice, part time, Ithaca, NY; subspecializing in child and adolescent psychiatry |
| 1996 | Assistant Director of Residency Training and Director of Psychiatric Public Health, University of South Dakota, Department of Psychiatry, Sioux Falls |
| 1995 | Teaching Assistant in Medical Bioethics, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University |
| 1994-1995 | Consultant, New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Craig Developmental Center, Elmira Heights, NY |
| 1989-1993 | Medical Director, Psychiatric Services, Cortland Memorial Hospital, Cortland, NY |
| 1989 | Consultant, Delaware County MHC, Adolescent MICA Day Treatment Program |
| 1986-1988 | Attending Locum tenens psychiatrist and instructor for medical students and psychiatric residents, Utah and Alaska State Hospitals, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, NY |
| 1984-1986 | Medical Director, Psychiatric Services, Aroostock County Medical Center, ME |
| 1976-1984 | Director, Child Custody Assessment Team and private practice in general psychiatry, Boulder, CO |
| 1975-1976 | Team Psychiatrist, Children’s Division, Fort Logan Mental Health Center, Denver, CO |
| Awards, Professional Honors, and Conferences | |
| 2000-present | Member of the Forest Labs, Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s Speaker’s Bureau presenting more than fifty talks |
| 1995 | Organizer of Bioethics Seminar for Science and Technology Studies Department, Cornell University |
| 1989-1992 | Secretary, Cortland County Medical Society |
| 1990 | Delegate, New York State Medical Society; Drafted AMA Resolution 72, “Management of Low-level Radioactive Waste” |
| 1982-1984 | Vice President, medical staff, Boulder Psychiatric Institute |
| 1983 | Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Boulder Community Hospital |
| 1978-1981 | Secretary and annual conference co-chair, Interdisciplinary Committee for Child Custody, Denver, CO |
| 1968 | Smith, Kline and French Scholar, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA |
| Selected Professional Papers Presented | |
| 2002 | “Dysthymia: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment,” Grand Rounds, Binghamton General Hospital, Binghamton, NY |
| 2000 | “Augmentation Strategies in the Treatment of Depression,” Corning Hospital CME |
| 1999 | “Psychiatrist as Chemical Engineer, Patient as Cyborg,” Cornell University, Technology and Identity, Conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation |
| 1997 | “Tales of Deinstitutionalization,” Cornell Department of Science and Technology Studies |
| 1996 | “Who Will Lead? Current Trends in Mental Health Service and Policy,” Tompkins County Mental Health Association |
| 1996 | “The De-institutionalization of Psychiatric Patients,” American Association of the History Of Medicine, the State University at Buffalo Health Science Center |
| 1993 | “De-institutionalization and Psychiatric Training in the Biologic Era,” International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Brandeis University |
| 1993 | “Drug Paradigms,” Cornell University, English Literature Conference |
| 1993 | “De-institutionalization and Biologic Psychiatry,” Yale University, History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Medicine Conference |
| 1991 | “Hospital Treatment of the Chronic Borderline Patient,” New York State Catholic Charities Annual Conference |
| 1990 | “Child and Elder Abuse,” Keynote Address, Central New York State Hospital Association |
| 1990 | “A Developmental Approach to Inpatient Psychiatry,” Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY |
| 1981 | “Joint Custody Perspectives,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting |
| Publications | |
| “Deinstitutionalization of the Homeless, Chronically Mentally Ill: A Mental Health, Legal and Public Policy Tragedy,” accepted for publication in Psychology, Law and Public Policy, an official journal of the American Psychological Association and the Universities of Miami and Arizona law schools, 2004. | |
| Doctoral Dissertation: Deinstitutionalization of the Homeless Patient with Chronic Schizophrenia: Implications for Psychiatric Training and Policy | |
| “The Homeless, the Homicidal, and the Dead,” The Book Press Literary Magazine, Ithaca, NY, 1997. | |
| Custody and the Courts: A Handbook of Child Custody for Lawyers and Mental Health Professionals (with Robert Hinds), Irvington Press, 1989. | |
| “Homosexuality and Child Custody,” Conciliation Courts Review, Vol. 21, No. 1. June 1982. | |
| “Joint Custody,” The Barrister: Journal of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Vol. XIII, No. 1. Spring 1982. | |
| “Child Development: Implications for Custody and Visitation,” Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Review, Fall 1981. | |
| “Apomorphine Induced Conditioned Aversion to a Novel Food,” Psychon. Sci. 1968, Vol. 12. |