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Jeffrey Alan Sugar, MD

Expert in Child and General Psychiatry

Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (310) 291-0886
Email: [email protected] • Web Site: www.jeffsugarmd.com

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Ongoing Work presented at national &
 Institutional Sexual international meetings.
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 Adolescent Psychiatry  Pediatric Psychiatry EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:
 Child Psychiatry  Psychiatric Disability Current Clinical and Consulting Adult and Child and
 Child Abuse  Psychiatric Malpractice Adolescent Psychiatrist, Cal State Long Beach
 Conduct Disorder  Psychiatric Trauma Trauma Recovery Center
 Child Sexual Abuse  Pediatric Brain Trauma 2007 – 2021 Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
 Employment Psychiatry  Sexual Assault Trauma Program, University of Southern
 Hospital Sexual Assault  Brain Injury/Trauma California, Keck School of Medicine,
Los Angeles, CA
SUMMARY: 2015 – 2018 Attending Psychiatrist, USC Child and
• Board certified: Child and General Psychiatry Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
• Current: Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, USC; 2005 – Current Teacher of: Critical Thinking, Child
Past: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, USC Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Consultation,
and Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Child Trauma, Evaluating Psychiatric
• 34 years’ experience in public and private Literature to Psychiatric Trainees at all levels
sector psychiatry 1988 – Current Forensic Psychiatric work, beginning
• Past President: Southern California Society of Child and with over two hundred workers’
Adolescent Psychiatry compensation cases and continuing as an
• Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Expert Witness, specializing in all aspects
Association of psychological distress and trauma in both
• Founding Director of Research: Hathaway Children and children and adults
Family Services studying effects of child trauma 2015 – 2018 Attending Psychiatrist, USC Adult
• National and International Invited Speaker Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
2013 – 2015 Ward Chief, Adolescent Psychiatry
TRAINING: Inpatient Unit, USC
• M.D.: University of California, San Francisco 2013 – 2015 Senior Consulting Psychiatrist, Children’s
• General psychiatry: Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California Institute, Los Angeles
• Child psychiatry: UCLA-Neuropsychiatric Institute 2007 – 2021 USC Adolescent and Adult Inpatient
• Chief fellow: UCLA Psychiatric Services, South Los Angeles
2006 – 2013 Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Crisis and Emergency Service, USC
• American Psychiatric Association 2005 – 2005 Volunteer Psychiatric Relief Work with
• Southern California Psychiatric Society International Medical Corps in and around
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Banda Aceh, Indonesia
• Southern California Society of Child and 2004 – 2005 Chief of Child Inpatient Unit, Kedren Hospital
Adolescent Psychiatry and Community Treatment Center, South
• International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Los Angeles
1999 – 2004 Founding director of Hathaway Children’s
RESEARCH: Clinical Research Institute, investigating
2013- Current Screener for Child Attachment, Adverstiy, Trauma, Trauma and psychopathology in severely
Impairment and Resilience (SCATIR) traumatized, multi-ethnic, low SES children
2018 – 2021 Parent-Child Interactive Therapy Improves the and adolescents in residential care
Lives of Mothers with HIV and their Disruptive 1988 – 1999 Chief of Psychiatry, clinical consultant,
Children supervisor of child psychiatry fellows and
2014 – 2015 Bio Markers of early Childhood Trauma and clinical psychology doctoral students:
Changes Through Intervention Hathaway Children and Family Services,
2007 – 2012 Principal Investigator at USC site in the working with this same ethnically diverse
National Child Traumatic Stress Network population in residential and community
1999 – 2004 Founding Director, Hathaway Children’s Clinical mental health treatment
Research Institute. Studied care systems and 1989 – 2004 Private Practice of general and child psychiatry
child trauma with foundation grants: $750,000 (part time)
for three years, then $650,000 for two years,
plus supplemental grants

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