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Richard J. Goldberg, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 444 - 5291
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Objectives
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To provide clinical consultation, system consulation, or program/business development consulation in the area of geriatric psychiatry.
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Employment/Experience Summary
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Professor of Psychiatry, Brown University
Board Certified in Psychiatry, 1979
Board Certififed in Geriatric Psychiatry, 1991
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Consulting to numerous long term care facilities and geriatric patients/families. Extensive background in medical aspects of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. Named "top doctor" in psychatry in Rhode Island survey 1994, 1996, 1998.
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Author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, eight books, 35 chapters. Invited presentation at over 100 medical settings in the past two years.
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Education
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Undergraduate: Cornell University, AB, cum laude, 1970
Medical School: State Univ. of New York at Buffalo,MD, 1974
Psychiatry Residency: Yale University, 1978
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Currently enrolled in Master's degree program in Medical Management at Harvard University, School of Public Health
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Skills
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Aseessment and integrated recommendations for behavioral problems in geriatric patients, including medical, psychiatric, psychopharmacologic, psychological, social, family, and behavioral components.
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Assessment and recommendations for health care systems in developing a continuum of geriatric behavioral health care, including clinical, staffing and financing issues.
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Consulation on regulatory, Medicare reimbursement, and program development issues, including CPT coding problems, operations management, and organizational behavior issues.
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Personal Interest
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- To help improve the health status of geriatric patients
- To help provider systems develop and manage viable clinical operations in geriatric behavioral health care
- To help patients and families feel comfortable that they are doing all that can be done to diagnose and manage geriatric behavior problems, including depression, anxiety,delusions, agitation, aggression, withdrawal, etc.
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