PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Psychiatrist, Medical Doctor License # 1931 (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico).
EDUCATION
1950-1954 School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico (Founding Class).
Degree obtained: M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society)
1954-1955 Straight Medical Internship, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City. Experience with the mental health problems of poor medical patients shaped decision to pursue Community Psychiatry as a specialty
1958-1961 Psychiatric Residency, Center for Training and Research, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
1974-1976 Private training in the theory and practice of Jungian Analytical Psychology, including a two-year training analysis with Dr. Margit von Leight-Frank, a disciple of Carl G. Jung.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
1966-1967 Narcotics Coordinator, New York City.
1967-1968 Commissioner, Addiction Services Agency, Human Resources Administration, City of New York.
1968-1980 Private practice in General Psychiatry, New York City.
1981- Present Private practice of General Psychiatry for adolescents and adults in San Juan, groups with substance abuse problems and Lithium-Deficient Attention Deficit Spectrum Disorders.
Programs Founded / Developed
1961 Founder Centro de Investigaciones Sobre la Adicción, (Addiction Research Center), the first professionally supervised therapeutic community for addicts in the Western Hemisphere. The model included former addicts as members of the therapeutic team for the first time.
1967 Founder, Phoenix House Therapeutic Communities Program, a multiethnic adaptation of the therapeutic community model for urban drug addicts.
1967-1968 Founder and first Commissioner, Addicition Services Agency, City of New York –First city wide attempt to adapt the therapeutic community concept developed in the CISLA Project to New York City.
1968-2006 Founding Member and Psychiatric Consultant, Hogar CREA, Inc. the first private, not for profit, community based, therapeutic community for addicts in Puerto Rico.
1976-1981 Program Developer and Coordinator of Hogar CREA in the Continental U.S.A. Organized and trained the community steering committee in charge of the first bi-lingual residential program for addicts, in the continental U.S.A., Pennsylvania.
1999-2006 Director, Centro de Sanación Integral (Comunidad Terapéutica Ambulatoria de Ocean Park) and Founder Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder Foundation. (ADDAPR Foundation)
Consultant Services
1966 Trained and advised Dr. Judianne Densen Gerber in the development of Odyssey House, an adaptation of the CISLA project to New York City
1970-1979 Worked in program development and design, and training of therapeutic teams for several Metropolitan New York Agencies: New Block Communities Inc., East Harlem Tenants Council, Metropolitan Council, Exodus House and Daytop Village, Interfaith Hospital, New York, Training for Living Institute, New York, Archdioceses of Brooklyn, Suny College at Old Westbury, New York, P.R.O.M.E.S.A. ,South Bronx.
1976 Psychiatric Consultant to the Government of the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua for the development of Hogar CREA programs.
1978-1982 Training, Evaluation and Prevention Consultant, Aspira of America, Inc., Drug prevention and vocational orientation for Hispanic adolescent drop-outs in Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and Puerto Rico.
1981-1983 Prevention Consultant, Aspira of Puerto Rico, Inc., RESCATE Project, Program succeeded in reintegrating 90% of young drop-outs to study or work tracks.
1981-1985 Consultant, Hogar CREA International Inc., providing technical assistance for the CREA TC model in the Dominican Republic, United States, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, and Spain.
1984 Consultant, Pontifical Council of the Family, Vatican City State, in the application of the TC model to drug and criminality prevention at the parish level.
1985 Coordinated government project to convert a 20-acre model prison facility in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in to a multiple service Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapeutic Communtiy.
1986-1990 Assistant, Secretary of Health for Mental Health of Puerto Rico.
1989 Completed and filed the Comprehensive State Mental Health Plan (pursuant to Public Law 99-660 of 1986). Plan was to be considered by the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
1990 Participated with 18 other world-wide specialists on drug abuse in a summit conference convened by the Vatican City’s Pontificial Council of the Family.
1993-2006 Medical Director and Principal Investigator Ambulatory Therapeutic Community of Ocean Park.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1978-1986 Professor, Institute for Holistic Human Development, Puerto Rico. Conducted courses for lay adults and professionals on:
-The Psychology of Carl G. Jung
-The Origin and History of Consciousness
-Myths in Modern Psychiatry
-The Modern Applications of the I Ching
-Introduction to Dream Interpretation (lectures and workshops repeated annually)
-The Normal Development of the Personality
1980-1986 Professor, Training Department, Hogar CREA International, Inc. Trained the covering the areas of:
-Scientific Principles of the Therapeutic Community Model
-The Treatment of Ego-syntonic Personality Disorders
-Personality Diagnosis through Observable Behavior
-Evaluation of Personality Change in Treatment
-Therapeutic Techniques in the Re-education of Character
-Design and Maintenance of Therapeutic Environments
-The Training of Families and Neighbors in the Management of Difficult Behavior
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
1962 Designer of the first Professionally Supervised Therapeutic community model for Heroin addicts at the State Psychiatric Hospital, Río Piedras, P.R.
1968 Designer of the Attitudinal Skills training System, a training methodology for social prevention based on the theory of personality and treatment techniques developed in the therapeutic community model.
1973 Original research work in the area of dream theory, dream interpretation, personality theory derived from dream work, and modality of analytic psychotherapy guided by dream material (oneirotherapy). Frequent lectures and workshops on the subject in the United States and Puerto Rico.
1993 Clinical Research on the viability of Ambulatory Rehabilitation of Addicted in clinical trials.
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
1968 Lecturer, New School of Social Research, New York, conducting two courses on the application of social psychiatry techniques and insights on endemic and epidemic behavior problems in urban areas (titled of the course: Character Disorders and the Addiction Services Agency, an Experiment in Peaceful Social revolution)
1990 Lecturer, Magisterial Conference in the Pontificial University of Salamanca, Spain on the Octagonal Evaluations as a fundamental instrument of diagnosis and planning in the establishment of a community-based mental health system.
1998 June- Conference and workshops on The Prevention of Drug Addiction,Hogar CREA, Santo Domingo.
2000 August to November- Offered workshops on the use of alternative medicine in the treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder. Centro de Sanación Integral and UNITY, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
April -Holistic Focus on Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. Latin American Congress of ADD with Hyperactivity. Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
March –The Holistic Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder. Latin American Conference on Attention Deficit Disorder. Tropimar Convention Center, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
March –The Therapeutic Community of the XXIst. Century. Hogar CREA International Congress.
February –The Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder. Latin American Congress on Attention Deficit Disorder. Embassy Suites, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
2003 February- Lecturer, IV Latin-American Congress on Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ALDA). Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
2004 February- Lecturer, 5th Latin-American Congress on Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity. Puebla’s Convention Center. Puebla, México.
2007 El Tratamiento de la Gama de Desórdenes de Déficit de Atención (GDDA) por deficiencia de litio, en una Comunidad Terapéutica Ambulatoria.
XI Conferencia Latinoamericana de Comunidades Terapéuticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 12-14 de abril de 2007.
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