CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:

David Mee-Lee, M.D. M.S.
(Australian equivalent is M.B., B.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:
  1. Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Addiction Illness (Dual Diagnosis)
  2. Evaluation and Efficacy of Addiction Treatment
  3. Cost-effective Systems of Treatment; Individualized Treatment
  4. California Psychiatric Association
 
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 (2005): “Helping People Change – What Families Can Do to Make or Break Denial” Paradigm. Vol. 10, No. 1 Winter 2005. pp. 12-13, 22.

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.