CURRICULUM VITAE Eric Mason Westfried, Ph.D. P.O Box 7010 P.O. Box 1932 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Durango, Colorado 81302 Phone (505) 242-4401 Phone (970) 375-1427 Cell Phone (505) 321-5553 Facsimile (888) 273-8460 email: emw@newmexico.com Education: Doctorate Northwestern University Medical School: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences: Clinical Psychology Division (APA approved): Older Adult Track. Clinical Internship at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (APA approved). June 1993. Masters University of Chicago: Clinical Social Work, June 1988. Bachelors University of New Mexico: Cultural Anthropology/Linguistics, May 1979. Licensure: Clinical Psychologist # 1943, State of Colorado Clinical Psychologist #641, State of New Mexico Board Diplomate in Forensic Psychology #5621, ABPP. Certification: Diplomate in Neuropsychology #386, ABN. Experience: 1/96 to Forensic Neuropsychologist: Private Practice. Criminal and present civil forensic neuropsychological evaluation. Criminal evaluations of: Voluntariness Confession; Competence to Waive Miranda Rights; Risk Assessment (violence, sex offense, general recidivism); Competence to Stand Trial; Specific Intent; Sanity; Death Penalty Mitigation. Civil evaluations of: Personal Injury; Disability; Guardianship/Conservatorship. Part time until 11/00, then full time. 7/00 to Forensic Psychologist: Forensic Health Services, New Mexico 03/07 Women s Correctional Facility. Supervision and completion of Pre-Sentencing forensic evaluations. Under the direction of Judith Willison, LICSW and Joel Haycock, Ph.D. Part time. 6/99 to Forensic Psychologist: Biannual Assessment of New Mexico 1/07 State Police candidates for academy training. Under the direction of Susan Cave, Ph.D. Part time. 7/01 to Forensic psychologist: New Mexico Department of Health 6/05 pre-trial evaluation contractor. Part time.
Experience: 11/97 to Forensic Psychologist: Las Vegas Medical Center, Forensic 11/00 Units, Neuropsychological, psychodiagnostic, forensic evaluation of: competency to stand trial, dangerousness, criminal responsibility, sex offenders (inpatient); individual, group, and crisis psychotherapy with adult sex offenders and general forensic populations (inpatient). Program development and supervision of forensic psychologists. Under the direction of Thomas Sturm, Ph.D. and Daniel Seagrave, Psy. D. Full time. 11/95 to Clinical Director/Clinical Psychologist-Neuropsychologist: 11/97 Presbyterian Medical Services, Farmington Community Health Center, Mental Health Programs. Neuropsychological, psychodiagnostic, and forensic evaluation (outpatient); individual, marital, family, group, and crisis psychotherapy with adults and older adults (outpatient). Program development and supervision of masters level counselors/interns, clinical direction for chronically mentally ill programs and alcohol/substance abuse team, consultation/liason with primary care, and supervision of psychiatric servies. Under the direction of Lou Ringe, Ph.D. and David Smith, Ph.D. Full time. 9/93 to Clinical Psychologist: Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, 11/95 Psychiatry Service Neuropsychological, psychodiagnostic, intellectual, and personality evaluation (inpatient and outpatient); individual, marital, family, group, and crisis psychotherapy with adults and older adults (outpatient). Supervision of masters level psychologists (evaluations and therapy). Under the direction of Richard Evans, MSW and Marnin Fischbach, M.D. Neuropsychological consultation by Bill Boyd, Ph.D. (9/93 to 7/94) and John Crouch, Ph.D. (8/94 to 11/95). Full time. 9/92 to Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship: Division of Psychology, 9/93 University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Rotations at University Hospital Inpatient Psychiatry, University Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation, University Hospital Neuropsychology Lab, Colorado Psychiatric Hospital Outpatient Adult and Child Clinics, Denver University Child Neuropsychology Clinic. Under the overall direction of William Sobesky, Ph.D. and Laetita Thompson, Ph.D. Full time. 7/89 to Bilingual Therapist/Clinical Supervisor of Trainees: Pilsen- 7/92 Little Village Community Mental Health Center (Chicago). Psychotherapy and psychological testing (in Spanish) with predominantly first generation Mexican Americans; clinical supervision of graduate students in psychology and social work, under the direction of Albert Vasquez, M.A., Elsa Chinchilla, M.A., and John Benitez, Ph. D. 16 to 32 hrs/wk. - 2 -
Experience: 9/91 to Psychology Trainee: Older Adult Program and Psycho- 6/92 therapy Program, Northwestern University Medical School. Psychotherapy under the direction of David Gutmann, Ph.D. and Larry Golpert, Ph.D. 8 hrs/wk. 1/92 to Instructor: Northwestern University, University College. 6/92 Personality Theory undergraduate psychology course. 3/91 to Teaching Assistant: Clinical Psychology Division, 6/91 Northwestern University Medical School, Rorschach Test administration, scoring, and interpretation. 4 hrs/wk. 7/90 to Psychology Trainee: Psychotherapy Program, Northwestern 9/91 University Medical School. Psychotherapy with adults age 18 to 55 under the direction of Enio Rigolin, M.D., Salee Jenkins, Ph.D., and Pam Grace, Ph.D. 16 hrs/wk. 6/90 to Psychology Trainee: Older Adult Program, Northwestern 9/91 University Medical School. Outpatient psychotherapy and psychological testing with adults over age 55 and under the direction of David Gutmann, Ph.D. and Jordan Jacobowitz Ph.D. 4 to 8 hrs/wk. 9/92 to Instructor: Northwestern University, University College 12/92 Psychology of Personality Adjustment, undergraduate psychology course. 6/89 to Psychology Trainee: Older Adult Program, Northwestern 9/90 University Medical School. Inpatient neuropsychological and personality testing and outpatient psychotherapy with adults over age 55 under the direction of Jerome Grunes, M.D., Brian Griffin, Ph.D., and Diane Brauer, ACSW. 16 to 20 hrs/wk. 10/88 to Research Assistant: Older Adult Program, Northwestern 6/92 University. Development and implementation research project among low-acculturated Mexican and Mexican Americans under the direction of David Gutmann, Ph.D. 8 to 10 hrs/wk. 6/88 to Social Worker III: New Mexico Department of Human 9/88 Services. Planning and implementation of consolidated older adult services program in McKinley and Cibola Counties under the direction of Myrrl McBride, County Office Manager. Full time three month contract. 10/87 to Psychiatric Social Work Intern: University of Chicago 6/88 Hospitals, Department of Psychiatry-Outpatient. Psychiatric social work under the direction of Barbara Smith, ACSW, SSA Field Work Assistant Professor. 24 hrs/wk. - 3 -
Experience: 1/87 to Research Assistant: Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of 6/88 Chicago Department of Medicine. Research interview formulation, interviewing, coding, and grant report preparation under the direction of Nancy Zweibel, Ph.D. and Christine Cassel, M.D. 16 to 20 hrs/wk. 10/86 to Clinical Social Work Intern: University of Chicago Hospitals 6/87 Gastrointestinal Unit. Medical/clinical social work under the direction of Sondra Cohen, ACSW, SSA Field of Work Assistant Professor. 16 to 20 hrs/wk. 3/80 to Social Worker III: New Mexico Department of Human 9/86 Services. Rural older adult and child protective services, general social services for older adults, individual and family counseling, and consultant services to three acute care and three long term care facilities under the direction of Mary Alexander, MSW. Full time. 9/79 to Interviewer: White House Commission on Social Security, 2/80 Sandia Research, Albuquerque; interviewing and supervision of other interviewers. Full time. Presentations/Publications: 10/07 Competence to Stand Trial: Presentation for the Annual New Mexico Public Defender Department 10/06 Risk Assessment: Measurement and Case Examples: Presentation for the Annual New Mexico Public Defender Department 6/06 Criminal Responsibility Statutes, Case Law and Assessment: Presentation Department of Health Forensic Evaluator s Conference. 2/06 Forensic Assessment. Seminar series for psychology residents 1/05 Forensic Assessment. Seminar series for psychology residents 9/04 Forensic Assessment. Seminar series for psychology residents 1/04 Forensic Assessment. Seminar series for psychology residents 12/03 Pre-Trial Forensic Psychological Evaluations. New Mexico Public Defender Department, San Juan County. - 4 -
5/03 Forensic Assessment. Seminar series for psychology residents 10/02 Update: Do Scores on Pre-Employment Psychological Evaluation Correlate with Final Academy Scores? Are They Predictors of Academy Performance? Co-authored with Susan Cave, Ph.D. The Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, Annual Conference, Tulsa Oklahoma. 1/02 Risk Assessment. Seminar series for Forensic Health Service psychologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 11/01 Concurrent Amnestic Disorder Due to TBI, Dissociative Amnesia Disorder, and Malingering Amnesia. Poster Presentation, National Academy of Neuropsychology, Annual Conference, San Francisco, California. 10/01 Do Scores on Pre-Employment Psychological Evaluations Correlate with Final Academy Scores? Are They Predictors of Academy Performance? Co-authored with Susan Cave, Ph.D. The Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, Annual Conference, Austin, Texas. 8/01 Suicide Prevention. New Mexico State University-Grants. Reweaving Life s Fabric: A Mental Health Conference. 8/00 Assessment of Malingering and Deception. New Mexico Psychological Association Continuing Education Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 6/99 Sex Offender Risk Assessment: Conceptual Issues and Acturial Risk Prediction. SORT Fundraising Workshop for New Mexico Chapter of ATSA, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 5/99 Psychological Evaluation of: 1) Recidivism Risk and Management and 2) Malingering/Defensiveness. Full day training for New Mexico Department of Corrections Psychology staff, Los Lunas, New Mexico. 5/99 The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. A Case Sample. In-service for Psychology Department, Las Vegas Medical Center, Las Vegas, New Mexico. 8/98 Malingering: Clinical and Psychometric Assessment. In-service for Psychology Department, Las Vegas Medical Center. Las Vegas, New Mexico. - 5 -
8/97 Assessment of Need for Treatment Guardianship. New Mexico Department of Health Regional Workshops on Treatment Guardian Statutes, Farmington, New Mexico. 1/97 Psychodiagnostic Determination of Psychosis in an Outpatient Sample of Low-Acculturated Mexican Americans, The Dynamic Personality in Later Life: The Older Adult Program Doctoral Studies, 1981-1995. David Gutmann, ed. Monograph 1, Buehler Center on Aging McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago. 6/96 Neuropsychological Screening in Forensic Evaluation. Paper presented at the New Mexico Forensic Evaluator Conference (annual), Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2/96 Life Sustaining Medical Care and Advance Directives: Research and Issues. Research presentation, Senior Companion Program Annual Luncheon, Farmington, New Mexico. 11/95 Pre-and Post-Operative Neuropsychological and Psychological Functioning of an Older Adult Woman with a Large Anterior Intrahemispheric Meningioma. Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Francisico. Abstract, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology (1996): 11(4). 11/95 Group Psychotherapy with Young Older Adults: A Case Study with Implications for Future Cohort Groups of Older Adult Women. Poster presentation, 50 th Annual Gerontological Society of America Conference, Los Angeles, California. 2/95 An Overview of Personality Disorders: Management in an Inpatient Setting. In-service for Psychiatry Department, Fitzsimmons Army Medical Hospital, Denver, Colorado. 4/94 Narcissistic Personality Disorders: Assessment and Treatment. In-service for Psychiatry Department, Fitzsimmons Army Medical Hospital, Denver, Colorado. 6/93 Psychodiagnostic Determination of Psychosis in an Outpatient Sample of Low-Acculturated Mexican Americans. Dissertation, Chicago: Northwestern University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychology Division. Dissertation-Abstracts-International. 1993; Vol 54(6-B): 3356. - 6 -
Presentations/Publications: 11/92 Parental Status as a Variable in the Diagnosis of Psychotic Disorders: Results from a Sample of Outpatient Low- Acculturated Mexican American. Research paper presentation, Annual Gerontological Society of America Conference, Washington, D.C. Committees and Commissions: 9/91 The Concept of Psychological Boundaries: History and Psychological Test Measures. Comprehensive paper presentation for acceptance to doctoral candidacy, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. 3/91 Assessment of Psychotic Disorders Among a Clinical Sample of Older Adult-Low-Acculturated Mexican Americans. Research paper presentation, American Society on Aging Annual Conference, New Orleans. 3/90 The Use of Magical Ideation Among Low-Acculturated Mexican Americans: Implications for Assessment. Paper presentation, Inter-Cultural Clinical Psychology Conference, Chicago. 3/90 Mental Health and Health Care with Mexican Americans. Guest lecturer for Purdue University nursing students and staff, Chicago. 11/97 to Las Vegas Medical Center Medical Staff, Member/Secretary 11/00 (7/98 to 7/00) 11/95 to Presbyterian Medical Services Behavioral Health Committee; 11/97 formulation of behavioral health policy and procedure. 9/82 to Mayor s Commission on Aging; Raton, New Mexico. City 9/86 program planning and policy for older adults. 7/84 to New Mexico Department of Human Services Adult Protection 9/86 Services Policy and Procedure Committee. Professional Organizations-Memberships: American Psychological Association (APA) APA Clinical Neuropsychology Division American Psychology-Law Society Gerontological Society of America National Academy of Neuropsychology New Mexico Psychological Association - 7 -
Awards: 10/01 Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, Best Research Paper Presentation for Do Scores on Pre-Employment Evaluations Correlate with Final Academy Scores? Are they Predictors of Academy Performance? Susan Cave, Ph.D. and Eric Westfried, Ph.D., authors. 10/93 Honorable Mention Margaret Clark Award in Gerontology for research manuscript on aging: Parental Status as a Variable in Psychotic Disorders. 6/93 Northwestern University s George Yacorzynski Scholar dissertation award for an exceptional contribution to the field of study. Past Licensure: Licensed Clinical Social Worker: Illinois Licensure # 149-003279. Other: Certified Trainer: (10/90) Diagnostic Interview Schedule III-R, Washington University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, St. Louis, Missouri. Spanish fluency. - 8 -