Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn M.D. This is Me

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1. 1. Vita

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   Published on: 6/13/2008   Last Visited: 6/13/2008

   Harold Bursztajn
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   Professional Sketch of Harold Bursztajn
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   Harold J. Bursztajn, MD, Harvard Medical SchoolHarold J. Bursztajn has twenty-five years of service as a distinguished patient care-focused clinician and as senior clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School.He is co-Director of the Program in Psychiatry & the Law and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and author of the highly acclaimed book Medical Choices, Medical Chances.This classic book has been reviewed favorably in leading medical journals ranging from the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association to the Journal of the American Psychiatric Association.Among his other leading contributions to medical and mental health education are two books Divided Staffs, Divided Selves, a Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics and Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law, as well as, numerous articles in medicine, psychiatry and clinical ethics.
   
   Nationally, he consults clinically and forensically, provides second opinions in patient care, conducts continuing medical education courses for professionals and advises educational television programs and public health-oriented media.He serves as a peer reviewer expert for leading medical and psychiatric journals, non-profit medical and ethics review organizations, health care and human services corporations and the judiciary.His numerous awards and honors in the course of twenty-five years of service as a Harvard Medical School clinical faculty member range from the Solomon Faculty Research Prize to his nomination by the medical school as one of two candidates for President of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Council.
   
   In addition to his twenty-five year commitment to patient practice, Dr. Bursztajn consults nationally and internationally as a distinguished forensic psychiatric expert.Among his areas of expertise are treating vulnerable patients, improving medical and mental health decision making, informed consent and malpractice risk reduction, and standards for the forensic evaluation of employment related claims, diminished capacity, psychiatric autopsies, and violence prevention.
   
   A Note from Mike and Greg: Dr. Bursztajn's professionalism, mentoring and friendship is deeply appreciated.
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   Dr. Bursztajn's evaluated and testified as a forensic neuropsychiatric expert on altered mental states leading to false confessions for Luc Angier.
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   Dr. Bursztajn's expert consultation and testimony was seriously considered by the jury in its acquittal of the defendant.

2. 2. in74.mitronsystems.com

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   Harold J. Bursztajn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; codirector, Program in Psychiatry national institute of health library and the Law David Powells new edition of this classic work updates standards national institute of health library and methods for the contemporary needs of counselors national institute of health library and programs.

3. 3. www.ktiv.com

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   Published on: 10/23/2007   Last Visited: 10/23/2007

   "She's dissociated to the trauma, she's disinhibited to the drugs and even if a policeman had been there as she pulled the trigger, she would have done what she had done," said Dr. Harold Bursztajn, Forensic Psychiatrist, Harvard University.
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   "With complications brought on by an involuntary intoxication with prescribed substances resulting in a delirious state," said Dr. Bursztajn."Consequently she became disinhibited and dissociated."But, could these conditions add up to first degree murder?"She was too delirious to be able to do so," said Dr. Bursztajn.