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MEDICAL RESUMES ALM EXPERTS: Southwestern Edition 2025
Harold Bursztajn
ACCREDITED PSYCHIATRY & MEDICINE
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL ALUMNI & FACULTY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138
(617) 492-8366 FAX (617) 441-3195
E-MAIL: [email protected]
WEB SITE: www.forensic-psych.com
Areas of Malpractice & informed consent
Expertise: Criminal justice & diminished capacity
Capital crimes & death penalty
Employment: disability (ADA), worker's compensation, discrimination & harassment
Malingering, misattribution, & medical mimics
Emotional & physical damages: conscious pain & suffering, PTSD
Neuropsychiatry, brain injury, & pain management
Suicide assessment and prevention
Substance.Abuse.and.addiction
Psychopharmacology
Product liability & toxic tort: individual & class actions
Family issues: divorce & custody, testamentary capacity, undue influence
Fitness for professional duty including teaching, clinical, and legal
Professional ethics and boundary maintenance
Forensic psychiatric autopsy
Daubert-informed evaluations of opposing experts’ methodology
Firm/Expert Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., Harvard Medical School Co-Founder of the Program in Psychiatry and
the Law and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, is active in patient care, teaching, and
research. He is President of the American Unit of the UNESCO Bioethics Chair. Recognized by his
colleagues as a doctor’s doctor and a doctor’s teacher, his numerous honors include the
prestigious Harvard Medical School Award for Excellence in Mentoring. His range of special
interests includes informed medical decision making, neuropsychiatric impairments, pain
management, malpractice prevention, and medical product liability. He consults to plaintiff and
defense counsel, insurance companies, and state and federal agencies as an expert in general and
forensic psychiatry, informed consent, and professional ethics. He also has nationwide experience
as a distinguished expert qualified to testify in state and federal courts.
Education/ Dr. Bursztajn is an honors graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical
Training: School.
Presentations/ In addition to his clinical practice involving patient care, he has published numerous
Publications: articles and chapters in standard texts in medicine, medical decision making, clinical
ethics, psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and forensic psychiatry.
He has also authored a number of books, including:
"Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics"
"Medical Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families and Physicians
Can Cope with Uncertainty"
"Decision Making in Psychiatry and the Law"
"Psychiatric Ethics” for UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
Comments: A complete curriculum vitae and local and national references are available by
request or can be accessed at www.forensic-psych.com. All inquiries are confidential.
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