|
home | forensic | geriatric | academic | printable CV | contact |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
BUSINESS
OFFICE |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
PATIENT OFFICE |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Phone (310) 521-9747; FAX
(310) 521-8112 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Birth:
January
10, 1948 (Denver, Colorado) Licensure: Physician, State of California, since September, 1979 Board Certifications: by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Psychiatry, April, 1987, with Added Qualifications in
Sub-specialties: |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
PRESENT POSITIONS: Dr. Read divides his professional time among academic and
institutional practice (at UCLA and the VA) and the private practice of
geriatric and forensic psychiatry. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Clinical
Professor and Attending Psychiatrist, Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Program
and Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center, GLAVAHCS. Faculty co-coordinator, Journal Club for Fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry Lecturer, Fellows in Geriatric Psychiatry, Residents in Psychiatry
(Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) and Neuropsychiatry Specialty Program, UCLA
School of Nursing. |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Private
Practice in General, Geriatric, and Forensic Psychiatry: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Dr.
Stephen Read has maintained a private practice in geriatric psychiatry for more
than twenty-five years in parallel with his academic, research, and
institutional efforts. Currently Dr. Read limits his practice to outpatient
and homecare settings, together with forensics, but he brings his expertise
developed from extensive experience in the full range of care settings: acute
inpatient (psychiatric and medical-surgical hospital), day care, and
long-term care (skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and assisted living
programs). Dr. Read's forensic practive focuses on
decision-making and care issues, primarily involving the assessment of
capacity. Dr. Read has been qualified as an expert in federal court and in
California and several other state jurisdictions. He has been retained in
over 400 cases primarily involving matters related to capacity and competence
with regards to conservatorships, will contests, and qualiry of care issues,
as well as selected personal injury and criminal matters, and the
implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
January,
1986--November, 1987: Consulting Psychiatrist |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Geriatric Day Hospital, Century City Hospital |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
October,
1987--February, 1995: Private practice--Los Alamitos, CA |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Los Alamitos Medical
Center, 1992-1993 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
UCLA
and West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
October, 1995 – June, 2006 Associate Clinical
Professor |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
January,
1988--October, 1995: Assistant Clinical Professor, |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
School of Medicine |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
November, 1984--January, 1988: Assistant Professor in
Residence, UCLA |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Attending Psychiatrist, UCLA Mood Disorders Clinic 1998-2006;
Consulting Psychiatrist, Los Angeles Air Force Base (El Segundo; 1997-2004)
and Psychiatrist, Gardena Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, 1997-2004. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
April
1995--June 1998, Attending Psychiatrist, |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit, UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
June, 1994--June, 1996: Associate National Director,
UPBEAT Program, VAMC, West Los Angeles |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
July,
1984--October, 1987: Staff Psychiatrist , VAMC, West Los Angeles |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Co-Director, Neurobehavior Unit |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Long-Term Care: |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
October,
1987--June, 1994: Medical Director |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease, a
specialized Skilled Nursing Facility with Adult Day Care and Outpatient
Evaluation, Care, and Research Programs |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
EDUCATION and TRAINING: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
September, 1966-December, 1968: Rice University, Houston,
Texas |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
January,
1969-December, 1971: Bachelor of Science |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
College of Agriculture, University of California, Berkeley |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
March,
1973-June, 1974: University of Washington, Seattle |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Postgraduate studies in biochemistry and genetics |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
September,
1974-June, 1978: Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British
Columbia |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
July,
1978-June, 1979: PGY I, Internal Medicine |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Presbyterian Medical Center, Denver, Colorado |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
July 1979--June, 1981: PGY2-3, Dept of Psychiatry,
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
July, 1981-June, 1982: Chief Resident, (PGY4), Dept of
Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
July,
1982--June, 1984: Fellow, PGY5-6; Psychogeriatrics & Neurobehavior |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Dept of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
School of Medicine/VAMC West Los Angeles |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
COMMITTEES and BOARDS: |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer’s
Association, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Chapter, January
2007-present Scientific Advisory Board, Huntington – Cal Tech Brain Institute,
April 2007-present Scientific Advisory Board, John Douglas French Foundation
for Alzheimer's Research, 1987-present |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
American Academy for Psychiatry and the Law (and Southern California
chapter) |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Reviewer for: |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
American Journal of Psychiatry |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
HONORS, RECOGNITION, RESEARCH GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
RECEIVED: |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
September,
2001: Quoted in Time magazine re: evaluation and imaging in elders with
cognitive impairment 1996: Named in Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region, 1996-1997 by Woodward/White Inc., Aiken, South Carolina and cited in "Los Angeles Magazine", November, 1996 1988: Appeared on CBS "Good Morning America" re: the needs for specialized long-term care for elderly patients with Alzheimer's Disease. 1988-1993: Principal Investigator for various therapeutic drug trials for memory disturbance in Alzheimer's Disease January, 1986:Veterans Administration Research Advisory Group July, 1985: French Foundation for Alzheimer
Research |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Current Research Interests: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
1.
Decision-making, undue influence, and capacity in Alzheimer's Disease, Depression,
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH), Dementia associated with Fronto-temporal
degeneration, and other neuro-psychiatric disorders. 2. Amyloid and FDG Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) imaging in dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. 4. Effects of cholinergic agonists on cognition, mood, and behavior. 5. Depression and Mood: Response to Deep
Brain Stimulation |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
PUBLICATIONS: |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
1.
Miller MH, Read SL, Bajwa B. Treating postpartum psychosis: An interaction
born of hope. Roche Report: Frontiers of Psychiatry, December, 1980 2. Read SL. Catatonia in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 1983;44:343-344 3. Read SL. Development: Terminable or interminable? Contemporary Psychiatry 1983;2:102-104 4. Read SL. A handy neurology consultant. Contemporary Psychiatry 1983;2:126-127 5. Jarvik LF, Read SL, Mintz J, Neshkes R. Pretreatment orthostatic hypotension in geriatric depression: Predictor of response to imipramine and doxepin. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 1983;3:368-372 6. Stuller A, Bell K, Read S, Ananth J. Case Presentation: Antabuse Psychosis. Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 1983;8:179-180 7. Cummings JL, Tan H, Read SL, Benson DF. Amnesia in anoxic encephalopathy: Clinical-pathological correlation. Neurology 1984; 34:678-681 8. Read SL, Jarvik LF. Cerebrovascular disease in the differential diagnosis of dementia. Psychiatric Annals 1984;14:100-108 9. Miller BL, Read SL, Mahler ME, Benson DF. Altered mental status in the elderly. Primary Care 1984;11:653-666 10. Cummings JL, Benson DF, Hill MA, Read SL. Aphasia in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neurology 1985;35:394-397 11. Read SL, Small GW, Jarvik LF. Dementia Syndrome. In Yudofsky S (Ed). Psychiatric Update, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C., 1985 12. Miller BL, Jenden DS, Cummings JL, Read SL, Rice K, Benson DF. Abnormal erythrocyte choline and influx in Alzheimer's Disease. Life Science 1986;38:485-490 13. Read SL. Update on cholinergic enhancement therapy for Alzheimer's Disease. Bull Clin Neurosci 1987;52:34-7 14. Read S. Review of: "Alzheimer's Dementia:" Dilemmas in clinical research. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 1987; 1:61-63 15. Read S, Cummings JL. Alzheimer's Disease: Past, present, and future. Hospital Medicine (supplement) April, 1987, 63-84 16. Trautner RJ, Cummings JL, Read SL, Benson DF. Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification and organic mood disorder. Am J Psychiatry 1988;145:350-353 17. Cummings JL, Read S. Multi-Infarct Dementia. Hospital Medicine November, 1988, 25-42. 18. Kempler D, Van Lancker D, Read S. Proverb and idiom comprehension in Alzheimer Disease. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 1988;2:38-49 19. Mody CK, McIntyre HB, Miller BL, Read SL: Topographic Brain Mapping and EEG Frequency Analysis in Alzheimer's Disease: A preliminary report. Bull Clin Neurosci 1988;53:94-97 20. Read S: A bonny rose. In Talbott JA, Manevitz AZA (Eds): Psychiatric House Calls. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Association Press, Inc., 1988, pp.34-35 21. Miller BL, Jenden DJ, Tang C, Read SL. Factors influencing erythrocyte choline. Life Sciences 1989;44:477-482 22. Read SL. Depresson is uncommon in Alzheimer Disease: Another aspect of the cholinergic deficit syndrome? Bull Clin Neurosci 1989; 54:8-13 23. Buchwald JS, Erwin RJ, Read S Van Lancker D, Cummings JL: Midlatency auditory evoked responses: differential abnormality of P1 in Alzheimer's Disease. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1989;74:378-84 24. Harbaugh RE, Reeder TM, Senter HJ, Knopman DS, Baskin DS, Pirozzolo F, Chui HC, Shetter AG, Bakay RAE, Leblanc R, Watson RT, DeKosky ST, Schmitt FA, Read SL, Johnston JT. Intracerebro-ventricular bethanechol chloride infusion in Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a collaborative double-blind study. J Neurosurg 1989; 71:481-486 25. Signer SF, Read SL. The patient with stroke. In: American Psychiatric Association: Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1989 26. Smith CA, Read SL, Satz P, Shapira J. A positive dose-response curve to a cholinergic agonist on the Randt Memory Test demonstrated in three patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 11:89, 1989 27. Miller BL, Jenden DJ, Tang CS, Read SL, Lin KM: Correlations of red and white blood cell choline: implications for interpreting lithium effects on choline transport and metabolism. Lithium 28. Read SL, Frazee J, Smith CS, Shapira J, Cummings JL, Tomiyasu,U. Intra-cerebroventricular bethanechol in Alzheimer's Disease: Variable Dose-related Responses. Arch Neurol 1990;47:1025-1030 29. Read S. Community Resources. In: Cummings JL, Miller BL (Eds): Alzheimer's Disease: Treatment and Long-Term Management. New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1990, pp. 235-244 30. Miller BL, Read SL, Tang C, Jenden D. Differences in red blood cell choline and lipid-bound choline between patients with Alzheimer's Disease and control subjects. Neurobiol Aging 1991;12:61-64 31. Read SL. The Dementias, In Sadavoy J, Jarvik LF, Shamoian C (Eds): Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1991 32. Leuchter AF, Read SL, Shapira J, Walter DO, Smith C. Stable bimodal response to cholinomimetic drugs in Alzheimer's Disease: Brain mapping correlates. Neuropsychopharmacology 1991;4:165-73 33. Read SL. Assessing dementia requires an interdisciplinary approach. Psychiatric Times, April 1991, pp 33-34. 34. Read SL. Long-term care for dementia: if appropriate, why "special"? (Editorial). J Am Geriatr Soc 1992;40:101-2. 35. Read, Stephen. Medication Management in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease. In: Alzheimer's Association, Los Angeles Chapter. "A Guide to Survival: The Alzheimer's Dilemma," Los Angeles, 1992 36. Gorman DG, Read S, Cummings JL. Cholinergic therapy of behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer's Disease. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology 1993;6:229-234. 37. Vinters HV, Secor DL, Read SL, Frazee JG, Tomiyasu U, Stanley TM, Ferreiro JA, Akers M-A. Microvasculature in brain biopsy specimens from patients with Alzheimer's Disease: An immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study. Ultrastructural Pathology 1994;18:333-348. 38. Hankin M, Read S. Mental incapacity to marry. Estate Planning, Trust and Probate News. State Bar of California 1994; 14:46-52. 39. Read SL, Miller B, Mena I, Kim R, Itabashi H. SPECT in Dementia: Clinical and pathological correlation. J Am Geriatr Soc 1995;43:1243-1247. 40. Read Stephen. Vascular Dementias. In: Sadavoy J, Lazarus LW, Jarvik LF, Grossberg GT (Eds). Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry--II Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1996 41. Yener GG, Leuchter AF, Jenden D, Read SL, Cummings JL, Miller BL. Quantitative EEG in fronto-temporal dementias. Clinical Electroencephalography 1996;27:61-68. 42. Stein W, Read SL. Chronic pain in the setting of Parkinson's disease and depression. J Pain and Symptom Management 1997;14:255-258. 43. Di Patre PL, Read SL, Cummings JL, Tomiyasu U, Vartavarian L, Secor DL,Vinters HV. Progression of clinical deterioration and pathologic changes in patients with Alzheimer Disease evaluated at biopsy and autopsy. Arch Neurol 1999;56:1254-1261 44. Shoghi-Jadid K, Small GW, Agdeppa ED, Kepe V, Ercoli LM, Siddarth P, Read S, Satyamurthy N, Petric A, Huang S-C, Barrio J. Localization of Neurofibrillary Tangles (NFTs) and Beta-Amyloid Plaques (APs) in the Brains of Living Patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 2002;10:24-35. 45. Read Stephen. Vascular Dementias. In: Grossberg GT, Sadavoy J, Jarvik LF, Meyers BS (Eds). Comprehensive Review of Geriatric Psychiatry--III Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 2004, pp. 511-524 46. Read, Stephen. Ethical Issues [In Geriatric Psychiatry]. In Sadock BJ and Sadock V, Eds. Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry VIII, New York, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005, pp. 3806-3813. 47. Asghar- Ali A, kavirajan H, Read S. The Effect of Risperidone on Nursing Burden Associated with Caring for Patients with Dementia. (Letter to the Editor) Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005; 53:1261-1262. 48. Read Stephen. Vascular Dementias. In Sadavoy J, Jarvik LF, Grossberg GT, Meyers BS (Eds). Comprehensive Review of Geriatirc Psychiatry, Study Guide Third Edition. WW Norton & Company, New York, 2005, pp. 35-38 and 176-183. 49. Weinstock R, Read SL, Leung G, Silva AS.
Violence in the Elderly. In Simon R, Tardiff K (Eds). Textbook of Violence
Assessment and Management. American Psychiatric Association Press (in press) |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS: |
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Hoarding
Behavior in the Elderly: Diagnostic and Capacity Issues. For
Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, GLAVAHCS. Los Angeles, January 18,
2007 Capacity
In the Elderly: Financial and Contracting. For Real Estate Fraud in the
Elderly. Sepulveda
VA GRECC Conference. San Pedro, CA, October 26, 2006 Hoarding
Behavior in the Elderly (poster). UCLA Conference on Aging, June 20, 2006 Capacity
and Influence: Gero-Psychiatry Update. South Bay Bar Association, Probate
Section. Torrance, CA; November 16, 2005 Capacity and Influence: Gero-Psychiatric Update. Santa Monica Bar Association, Probate Section. Santa Monica, CA; November 10, 2005 Assessment of Capacity. For Geriatric Medicine Symposium, SCAN Health Care Plan; Palm Springs, CA; September 10, 2005 Behaviors Associated with Excess Cholinergic Activity iin Humans with Dementia (poster)2004 Conference on Neural Control of Behavior, UCLA, February 5-7, 2004 Workgroup of the California State Senate Subcommittee on Aging & LTC: Invited Participant, Sacramento, CA, November 19, 2003 Vulnerability to Influence in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL); San Antonio, TX, October 18, 2003 Advances in Alzheimer's Disease Research. Alzheimer's Association of Los Angeles, South Bay Chapter; Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, June 17, 2003 Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence. Southern California Academy of Psychiatry and the Law; Rosemead, CA, June 14, 2003 Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment: A Crucial Element in the Spectrum of Long-Term Care. Professional Fiduciary Association of California; Irvine, CA, May 2, 2003 A Geropsychiatrist's View of Capacity and Undue Influence. Southern California Council on Elder Law; Encino, CA, February 12, 2003 Undue Influence, Frontal Lobes, and Executive Function Psychiatry and Long-Term Care. UCLA Psychiatry and Long-Term Care. UCLA Private Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry, April 2, 2001 & May 3, 2000 Depression and Medical Illness, July 23, 2001, July 18, 2000, July 21, 1999, July 20, 1998 for Neuropsychiatric subspecialty course, UCLA Nurse Practioner program in Neuropsychiatry Memory and Aging: Alzheimer’s, Other Dementias and Regional Brain Dysfunction. International College of Applied Kinesiology-USA Meeting, Palm Springs, California, June 24, 2000 Clinical Evaluation for Dementia. Residents Seminar, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Torrance, CA November 10, 1999 Elder Financial Abuse. Presentation to the California State Senate Sub-Committee on Aging. Robert Kennedy Medical Center, Hawthorne, CA November 3, 1999 Depression in the Geriatric Medical Patient; Grand Rounds, Pomona Valley Hospital, April 7, 1998 Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease. Pilgrim Place; Claremont, CA January 14, 1998 Research in Different Settings (A Symposium): Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry/NIMH, Los Angeles, July 27, 1997 Informed Non-Consent vs. Incapacity--Ethical Decision Making for the Elderly Annual Review of Geriatric Medicine, Marina del Rey, CA, January, 1997 The Impact of Depression on Outcomes of Medically Ill Elderly The Road to Diagnosis [of Alzheimer's Disease]: Initial Signposts Falls in Long Term Care: Significance, Assessment, & Prevention Alcohol and Substance Abuse (in the Elderly) Key Ethical Issues: Views from a Researcher Treating Anxiety, Depression, and Alcohol Abuse in the Primary Care of
Older Adults Mental Status Assessment, Faculty Development in Clinical Geriatric
Assessment UPBEAT!: Psychogeriatric Care to Improve Healthcare Outcomes in Ailing
Elderly Veterans Psychiatric Case Studies Longitudinal Management of Behavior Disorders Benson Symposium, Honoring the Career of D. Frank Benson; UCLA, June 30, 1995 Advanced Psychopharmacology Issues in Long Term Care [for patients with Alzheimer's Disease] Facilitation of Advance Directives for Dementia Patients in LTC The Experience of Dementia Longitudinal Behavior Management in Dementia SPECT in Dementia Hierarchic Dementia Scale for Cognitive Deficits in LTC SPECT in Dementia: Clinical and pathological correlation. Depression in Alzheimer's Disease Colloquium on Gero-Psychiatry Fellowship Program Correlates of Caregiver Burden Atypical (Dementia) Syndromes Experimental Treatments for Dementia: A Review Behavioral Disorders in Alzheimer's Disease: Depression is Uncommon SPECT in the Differential Diagnosis of Dementia Intraventricular Bethanechol in Alzheimer's Disease Psychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's Disease Intraventricular bethanechol for Alzheimer Disease: A dose-response study. Intraventricular bethanechol for Alzheimer Disease: A dose-response study. Preliminary report of IVBC for Alzheimer Disease Toward a treatment for Alzheimer Disease Choline uptake: A familial trait? Delusions in the older patient Treatment decisions in cognitively impaired patients Family members as decision-makers in subjects with dementia: A basis for
informed consent? Informed consent in research subjects with dementia: A symposium Postgraduate training in geriatric
psychiatry: A cross-cultural perspective |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
