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Ronald Fisher, M.D.
Address
Medical
ConnectionsTM
311
South Allen St., Suite 3
State
College, PA 16801
Telephone
(814)
231-3888
(814)
360-4025 (mobile)
License
Pennsylvania
#MD-057750-L
New
Jersey #MA-046468
Board
Certification
American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, l982
added
qualifications
in Geriatric
Psychiatry,
April 1991
Medical
School
New
Jersey Medical School
(M.D., graduated June l976 ), Newark, New Jersey
Residency
Experience
Graduate
Menninger
School of Psychiatry,
1980
Fellowship
University
of Edinburgh
in Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry - July 1983 - February 1984
Work
Experience
Locums-
MHM Psychiatrist,
Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections
September
2003 - 2005
Consulting
Psychiatrist
for CMS, New
Jersey Prison system
[A.C.
Wagner Youth Facility & the Edna Mahan Women's Facility]
August
2000 - 2003
Wexford
Health Services
- Psychiatrist 2001-2002
Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institutions at Houtzdale, Huntington and State College, Pa [on site and by TelePsychiatry]
Consulting
Psychiatrist for CMS, August 2000 to 2005
New
Jersey Prison system
[A.C. Wagner
Youth Facility, Edna Mahan Women's Facility, and South Woods State prison]
Medical
ConnectionsTM (Educational service)
1998-2000
Geisinger
Medical Center
1996-98
Attending
Gero-Psychiatrist
& Consultation/Liaison Psychiatrist
Private
Practice
(California) 1991-1996
.
Half
time faculty position- UCSF (Fresno)
Dept. of
Psychiatry (11/18/91 -June, 1993)
Director of Outpatient Psychiatric Consultation
Clinic
.
Registry
of Physician specialists; 1995-1996
California Department of Corrections:
Central Cal. Women's
facility, Pelican Bay, Corcoran and others
Private
Practice (New
Jersey) 1985-1991
.
Opened
Psychiatric unit in a General Hospital
(Kimball MC, Lakewood, New
Jersey)
July '85 - December '86
Medical/Clinical
Director:
.
Pawnee
Mental Health
.
Manhattan,
Kansas 1979-1984
Legal
experience
.
Criminal; Defense expert for Public Defenders office, prior to possible Death Sentencing, Fresno, California
.
Prison
Psychiatry; Kansas, California, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania
.
Civil
Commitment
procedures in Kansas,
N. Carolina, New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania
.
Competency
exams and
testimony (as above)
.
Tort; Expert testimony,
Visalia, Ca
.
Workers
Compensation
claims for Plaintiff/Defense
.
State
of Kansas
Reception & Diagnostic Center
.
Clerkship
at Federal Prison Hospital, Springfield, Mo.
Teaching
University
of California, San Francisco [UCSF]-Fresno
.
Clinical
Assistant Professor, Dec. 1991-1997
.
Departments:
Psychiatry and Family Practice
Univ.
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey;
.
New
Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (formerly Rutgers Medical
School)
.
Assistant
Clinical Professor, July '85 to '91
East
Carolina University School of Medicine
.
Assistant
Professor,
Head of Consultation/Liaison Service May l984 - June l985
University
of Edinburgh 1983-1984
.
Honorary
Professor of Psychiatry
Organizations
.
American
Telemedicine Association
Research
.
Physician's
attitudes towards psychiatry, comparing before and after a Liaison Service
.
The
use of paraprofessionals to perform initial interviews at Mental Health Centers
Contact
Information:
Medical
Connections
311
South Allen St., Suite 3
State
College, PA 16801
Phone:
(814)
231-3888
(814)
360-4025 (mobile)
Fax:
(814)
231-3888
Email:
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