About
Integrity. Diligence. Experience.
DR. BURTON SINGERMAN
Dr. Singerman's practice has included all areas of psychiatric diagnoses, including expertise in the following issues related to care concerns:
- negligent psychiatric care in acute medical or psychiatric facilities in correctional facilities
- misdiagnosis of symptoms caused by underlying medical illness, medication-induced reactions, or military or civilian post-traumatic stress disorder
- negligent care related to physician impairment quality-of-care issues in nursing homes and long-term care facilities
- defamatory accusations arising from implantation of false memories during treatment
- mental health care deficiencies leading to preventable suicides
- improper care due to incorrect psychiatric diagnosis
- psychiatric sequelae of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or rape
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University
BA, 1965 – 1969
Harvard Medical School
MD, 1969 – 1973
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
MPH, 1974-1975
Johns Hopkins Hospital and Maudsley Hospital Psychiatric Residency, 1976 – 1979
Washington University School of Medicine
Post-Doctoral Research Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, 1979 – 1981
Achievements and Awards
- Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Recipient, Exceptional Psychiatrist of the Year Award, National Alliance of the Mentally Ill
- Department of Defense research award to develop post-combat intervention program for post-traumatic stress disorder
- Stress-Inoculation Therapy: Pentagon civilian psychiatric consultant for research into pre-deployment training to decrease probability of post-traumatic stress among combat soldiers
- Civilian psychiatric consultant to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
- Selected resident by Johns Hopkins Hospital for psychiatric training at the Maudsley Hospital in London, England
About Dr. Singerman
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Leadership
Dr. Burton Singerman has been the head of three successful academic psychiatry departments. His responsibilities have included:
- Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Recipient, Exceptional Psychiatrist of the Year Award, National Alliance of the Mentally Ill
- Department of Defense research award to develop post-combat intervention program for post-traumatic stress disorder
Community Involvement
Dr. Singerman has extensive experience working within the communities he has served, including:
- lecturing on psychiatric illnesses in a number of urban and rural university communities
- presenting lectures to non-mental health professionals, including veterans, police, local political leadership, and the lay public
- giving interviews to local and national media on topics including school violence, the societal effects of drug abuse, the psychological effects of terrorist activities, community responses to post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers returning from combat, the relationship between psychiatric and medical disorders, and the economic impact of psychiatric disorders on the individual, the business community, and the nation
