CURRICULUM VITAE
| Name: | David Mee-Lee, M.D. M.S. |
| Address: | 4228 Boxelder Place, Davis, CA 95618 U.S.A. |
| Phone: | (530) 753-4300 |
| Fax: | (530) 753-7500 |
| E-Mail: | david@DMLMD.com |
| Voice Mail: | (916) 715-5856 |
| Web Address: | www.DMLMD.com |
| Place of Birth: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Education: | |
| 1972 | M.B., B.S. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Queensland, Australia |
| 1976 | M.S. Master of Science in Psychiatry, Ohio State University (completed during psychiatric residency) |
| Postdoctoral Training: | |
| Internships and Residencies: | |
| 1973 Jan.-Dec. |
Rotating Internship, Royal Brisbane Hospital and Redcliffe Hospital, Queensland, Australia |
| 1974-1976 | Resident in Psychiatry, Harding Hospital, Worthington,
Ohio Affiliate Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, Ohio State University |
| 1976-1977 | Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health
Center, Boston, MA. Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
| Licensure and Certification: | |
| 1972 | Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates
(ECFMG) Certificate No. 181 845 9 |
| 1973 | Queensland, Australia Medical License |
| 1975 | Federated Licensing Examination (FLEX) |
| 1976 | Massachusetts Medical License Registration No. 39114 |
| 1978 | American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certificate No. 18395 |
| 1984 | Certified Alcoholism Counselor, MA |
| 1986 | Certified in alcoholism and other drug dependencies
by examination of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Certificate No. 790 |
| 1992 | Hawaii Medical License No. MD - 8094 |
| 1993 | Certificate of Added Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry
(subspecialty of Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) Certificate No. 281 |
| 1996 | Re-certified in alcoholism and other drug dependencies
by examination of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Certificate No. 790 |
| 1997 | California Medical License No. C 043378 |
| Academic Appointments: | |
| 1980-1985 | Clinical Instructor in Socio-Medical Sciences and
Community Medicine (Family Medicine), Boston University |
| 1983-1984 | Adjunct Professor, Institute of Alcoholism and Drug
Dependency Andrews University, Michigan |
| 1983-1987 | Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
| 1987- 1999 | Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
| 1993- 1995 | American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certificate No. 18395 |
| 1995- | Clinical Instructor, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry |
| 1999- 2002 | Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California
at Davis School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry |
| Hospital Appointments: | |
| 1977-1987 | Psychiatrist New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH), Stoneham, MA |
| 1987-1993 | Consulting Psychiatrist Southwood Community Hospital, Norfolk, MA |
| 1990-1993 | Clinical Associate in Psychiatry The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 1993-1999 | Consultant in Psychiatry The Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 1993-1996 | Psychiatrist Castle Medical Center, Kailua, HI |
| Awards and Honors: | |
| 1967-1972 | Commonwealth University Scholarship, Australia |
| Major Committee Assignments: | |
| 1982-1985 | Medical Records Committee, NEMH (Chairperson, 1982) |
| 1982-1985 | Treasurer, Medical Staff, NEMH |
| 1984-1985 | Medical Staff Quality Assurance Committee (Chairperson), NEMH |
| 1986-1989 | Massachusetts Governor's Appointee to Special Commission to examine procedures of admitting drug-alcohol patients by insurance companies |
| 1987-1992 | Massachusetts Governor' Appointee as member of the
Alcoholism and Drug Rehabilitation Advisory Board, Dept. of Public Health |
| 1989-1992 | Massachusetts Governor's Appointee as Chairman of
the Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Advisory Council |
| 1990-1993 | Member, Professional and Technical Advisory Committee
of the Hospital Accreditation Services Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
| 1991 | Liaison Group, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Study of State Program Standards, Licensing Certification, Accreditation and Reimbursement Requirements for Drug Abuse Treatment |
| 1992-1994 | Member, Clinical Advisory Board American Biodyne, Inc. San Francisco, CA |
| 1992-1993 | Member, Clinical Advisory Committee, MCC Managed Behavioral Care, Inc. and Uni. of Minnesota School of Public Health project, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1992-1993 | Member Drug Treatment Service Evaluation Project Advisory Committee, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, WA |
| 1992-1993 | Editorial Advisory Board Member, ADDICTION AND RECOVERY International Publishing Group, Cleveland, OH |
| 1992-1993 | Member, Research Committee of National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) Education and Research Foundation, Arlington, VA |
| 1993 | Editorial Review Committee Member, THE COUNSELOR, Official Publication of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Arlington, VA |
| 1994- | Editorial Board Member, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT MEDQUEST Communications, Inc., Cleveland, OH |
| 1994-1995 | Member, Substance Abuse Task Force, Hawaii Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse and Controlled Substances |
| 1998- | Professional Advisory Council Member Caron Foundation, Wernersville, PA |
| 2001- | Editorial Board Member The Dual Network, Foundations Associates, Nashville, TN |
| 2002- | Advisory Board Member, eGetgoing/CRC, San Jose, CA |
| Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies: | |
| 1972-1973 | Australian Medical Association |
| 1977- | American Psychiatric Association |
| 1977-1993 | Massachusetts Medical Society |
| 1977-1993 | Massachusetts Psychiatric Society |
| 1981 | American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) |
| 1981-1993 | Member, Committee on Alcoholism and Addiction Massachusetts Psychiatric Society |
| 1985-1987 | Member, Committee on Standards and Economics of Care, ASAM |
| 1985-1987 | State Chairperson for Massachusetts, ASAM |
| 1986- | American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry |
| 1987-1991 | Regional Director Region III, ASAM |
| 1987-1991 | Chairperson, Committee on Standards and Economics of Care, ASAM |
| 1987- | Member, Budget and Finance Committee, and Core Curriculum Committee, ASAM |
| 1988-1991 | Member, Nomination and Awards Committee, ASAM |
| 1990-1998 | Member, Nomenclature Committee, ASAM |
| 1991- | Chairperson, Section on Standards and Economics of Care, ASAM |
| 1991- | Chairperson, Criteria Committee, ASAM |
| 1993-1996 | Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association |
| 1994-1996 | Hawaii Medical Association |
| 1994-1996 | Honolulu County Medical Society |
| 1994- | American Medical Association |
| 1996- | California Society of Addiction Medicine |
| 1997- | Central California Psychiatric Society |
| 1997- | California Psychiatric Association |
| Major Research Interests: |
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| Teaching Experience: | |
| 1977-1981 | As Director of Inservice Ed. organized & conducted seminars and conferences for Dept. of Psychiatry, New England Memorial Hospital |
| 1977-1985 | Psychiatric consultant to Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (Malden Office) Taught psychiatric aspects of vocational rehab. |
| 1980-1985 | Organized and taught psychiatric course work and rotations
for Family Practice Residency, New England Memorial Hospital as Clinical Instructor in Family Medicine, Boston University |
| 1981-1985 | Responsible for staff development of Addictions Treatment
Unit New England Memorial Hospital, of which I was Director |
| 1983-1990 | Supervision and teaching within the Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School System |
| 1986-1993 | Teaching faculty of Norman E. Zinberg Center for Addiction Studies, Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge |
| 1990-1993 | Teaching psychiatric residents within the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School System Boston, MA |
| 1996- | Full-time training and consulting, Davis, CA |
| Clinical and Hospital Service Responsibilities: | |
| 1977-1985 | Psychiatrist, inpatient and outpatient general psychiatric
work (consultation/liaison, short term inpatient hospitalization, long term
outpatient and psychotherapy) New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, MA (NEMH) |
| 1977-1985 | Psychiatric consultation and supervision, NEMH Outpatient Department |
| 1977-1985 | Psychiatric consultant to vocational counselors, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, Malden Office |
| 1986-1993 | Psychiatric Consultant, New England Telephone Employee Assistance Program and Medical Department, Boston, MA |
| 1992-1993 | Consultant, Mental Health Management of America, Managed Medicaid Project, Boston, MA |
| Major Administrative and Consultant Responsibilities: | |
| 1980-1985 | Assistant Chief of Psychiatry New England Memorial Hospital, (NEMH) Stoneham, MA |
| 1981-1985 | Director, Addictions Treatment Unit, New England Memorial Hospital |
| 1984-1985 | Corporate Medical Director, New Day Centers, Inc., St. Joseph, MI |
| 1984 | Acting Chief of Psychiatry and Director Human Services, NEMH |
| 1985-1987 | Vice President, Addictions Treatment Programs Monarch Health Corporation, Marblehead, MA |
| 1987-1993 | Associate Medical Director Parkside Medical Services Corporation, Park Ridge, IL |
| 1993-1996 | Medical Director, Community Systems, Behavioral Medicine Services, Castle Medical Center, Honolulu, HI |
| 1993-1998 | Addiction Specialist Corporate Consultant Merit Behavioral Care Corporation, St. Louis, MO |
| 1996-1997 | Medical Consultant, Community Systems, Behavioral Medicine Services, Castle Medical Center, Honolulu, HI |
| 1996- | Fulltime Consultant, DML Training and Consulting, Davis, CA |
| PUBLICATIONS |
| Mee-Lee, David: "Alcoholism and Substance Abuse: An Overview of Rehabilitation Problems" In Alcoholism and Substance Abuse: Trends and Choices. A Special Report of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. May, 1983. Mee-Lee, David: "The Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator - An Instrument for Patient Progress and Treatment Assignment" Proceedings of the 34th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. pp. 425-428. Aug. 4-10, 1985 . Calgary , Alberta , Canada . Hoffmann, Norman G; Halikas, James A; Mee-Lee, David: "The Cleveland Admission, Discharge, and Transfer Criteria: Model for Chemical Dependency Treatment Programs" Cleveland, Ohio: The Northern Ohio Chemical Dependency Treatment Directors Association, 1987. Mee-Lee, David: Medical Mainstream. The U.S. Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence - regular contributor of such topics as : "Cost Clouds Medical Horizon Vol. 11, No. 12, Dec. 1987; "Transcending the Disease Debate" Vol. 12, No. 4, April 1988; "How Will We Classify Alcoholism?" Vol. 12, No. 9, September, 1988; "Accepting Managed Care" Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1990. Mee-Lee, David : Book Review on "Recent Developments in Alcoholism Vol. 4" General Hospital Psychiatry. Vol. 10, No.1, Jan. 1988. pp 76-77. White, William T; Mee-Lee, David: "Substance Use Disorder and College Students - Inpatient Treatment Issues: A Model of Practice" J. of College Student Psychotherapy. Vol. 2, No. 3/4 1988. pp. 177-203. Mee-Lee, David: "An Instrument for Treatment Progress and Matching: The Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator (RAATE)" J. of Substance Abuse Treatment. Vol. 5, No. 3, 1988. pp. 183-186. Mee-Lee, David: "Diagnostic Dilemmas in Working With Dually Diagnosed Clients" The Counselor. January/February, 1991. pp. 10-12. Mee-Lee, David: "Understanding Research on Dual Diagnosis" Professional Counselor. 5(6), June, 1991, pp. 36-37. Hoffmann, Norman G; Halikas, James A; Mee-Lee, David; Weedman, Richard D: "Patient Placement Criteria for the Treatment of Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders" American Soc. of Addiction Medicine. Washington , D.C. 1991. Mee-Lee, David: "The ASAM Patient Placement Criteria for Adolescent Addictions Treatment" Addiction and Recovery. January/February, 1992, pp. 20-23. Mee-Lee, David:” Dual Diagnosis and the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria" The Counselor. March/April, 1992, 14-17. Mee-Lee, David; Cates-Wessel, Kathryn L: "Introduction to Addictions Disorders - What They Didn't Teach You In Medical School" Joint project between Project ADEPT at Brown University , the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Medical Association (AMA). Teaching materials (CME module with slides) to aid in training primary care physicians in alcohol and other drug problems, 1992. Mee-Lee, David: "Patient Placement Criteria for Chemical Dependency - Progress Toward Validation" Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow. Vol. 5, No. 2, March/April, 1993, pp. 28-31. Hoffmann, Norman G; Mee-Lee, David; Arrowood, Alice A: "Treatment Issues in Adolescent Substance Use and Addictions: Options, Outcome, Effectiveness, Reimbursement, and Admission Criteria" ADOLESCENT MEDICINE: State of the Art Reviews. Vol. 4, No. 2, June, 1993, pp. 371-390. Mee-Lee, David: "Managed Care and Dual Diagnosis" in "Treating Coexisting Psychiatric and Addictive Disorders - A Practical Guide" Ed. Norman S. Miller. Hazelden Educational Materials, Center City , MN 1994. Mee-Lee, David: "Placement Criteria and Patient-Treatment Matching" Section IX, Chapter 3 and "Caring for Patients in a Changing Environment" Section X, Chapter 1 in "Principles of Addiction Medicine" American Society of Addiction Medicine Inc., Chevy Chase, MD. September, 1994. Mee-Lee, David: "Matching in Addictions Treatment: How Do We Get There from Here?" in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly Special Issue: "Treatment of the Addictions: Applications of Outcome Research for Clinical Management" Vol. 12, No. 2, The Haworth Press, Inc. New York . 1995. "The Role and Current Status of Patient Placement Criteria In the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders" The Recommendations of a Consensus Panel. Co-Chairs: Lee Gartner and David Mee-Lee, M.D. Treatment Improvement Protocol. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. 1995. Renz, Ellen A, Chung, Richard, Fillman, T. Orvin, Mee-Lee, David, Sayama, Mike: "The Effect of Managed Care on the Treatment Outcome of Substance Use Disorders" General Hospital Psychiatry, 17, 287-292, 1995. McGee, Michael D, Mee-Lee, David: "Rethinking Patient Placement: The Human Services Matrix Model for Matching Services to Needs" J. of Substance Abuse Treatment. Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 141-148, 1997. Mee-Lee, David: “ASAM and AMBHA: Striving Toward Agreement” Behavioral Health Management, Vol.17, No. 6, pp. 19-23, 1997. Mee-Lee, David: "Use of Patient Placement Criteria in the Selection of Treatment ", Chapter 7, pp. 363 –370, Section 5: Overview of Addiction Treatment in "Principles of Addiction Medicine" Second Edition. American Society of Addiction Medicine Inc., Chevy Chase , MD. 1998. Mee-Lee D, Shulman GD, Fishman M, Gastfriend DR , and Griffith JH, eds. (2001). ASAM Patient Placement Criteria for the Treatment of Substance-Related Disorders, Second Edition-Revised (ASAM PPC-2R). Chevy Chase , MD : American Society of Addiction Medicine, Inc. Mee-Lee, David (2001): “Treatment Planning for Dual Disorders”. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills Vol.5. No.1, 52-79. Mee-Lee, David (2001): “Persons with Addictive Disorders, System Failures, and Managed Care” Chapter 9, pp. 225-265 in “Managed Behavioral Health Care Handbook”, E. Clarke Ross, Editor. Aspen Publisher, Inc., Gaithersburg , MD. Mee-Lee D, Shulman GD (2003): “The ASAM Patient Placement Criteria and Matching Patients to Treatment ", Chapter 5 in Section 4, Overview of Addiction Treatment in "Principles of Addiction Medicine” Eds Graham AW, Schultz TK, Mayo-Smith MF, Ries RK, Wilford BB, Third Edition. American Soc. of Addiction Medicine Inc., Chevy Chase , MD. Gastfriend, D.R. & Mee-Lee, D. (2003): “The ASAM Patient Placement Criteria: Context, Concepts and Continuing Development” in “Addition Treatment Matching – Research Foundations of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria.” Journal of Addictive Diseases , 22 , Supplement Number 1, 2. Mee-Lee, David (2005): “ASAM's placement criteria: What's new?” Behavioral Health Management Volume 25, No. 3. May/June 2005 Miller, S.D., Mee-Lee, D., & Plum , B. (2005): “Making Treatment Count: Client-Directed, Outcome Informed Clinical Work with Problem Drinkers.” In J. Lebow (ed.). Handbook of Clinical Family Therapy . New York : Wiley. Mee-Lee, David (2005): "ASAM Patient Placement
Criteria: Implications for Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Co-Occurring
Disorders" Counselor Magazine. Volume 6, No. 5 pp. 28-33. Mee-Lee, David (2006): “Borderline Personality Disorder – Dealing with Definitions and Crises” Paradigm Vol. 11, No. 2 Spring 2006. pp.14-15,18. Mee-Lee, David (2006): “Development and Implementation of Patient Placement Criteria” in “New Developments in Addiction Treatment”. Academic Highlights. J Clin Psychiatry 67:11: 1805-1807. Mee-Lee, David (2007): “Things That Don’t Make Sense” Paradigm Vol. 12, No. 1 Winter 2007. p.19. Mee-Lee D (2007). Engaging resistant and difficult-to-treat patients in collaborative treatment. . Current Psychiatry January, 2007 6(1):47-61.
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