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David L. Franklin, M.S.

Mr. Franklin received Bachelor of Science in behavioral psychology from Drake University and his Masters of Science in health care administration from California State University, Long Beach.  He currently is a doctoral candidate in psychology and is a clinical researcher at the University of California, Irvine. 

 

 

 

 

Victoria Dunckley, M.D.

Dr. Dunckley received her medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed her internship and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Irvine.  Presently, she is the Chief Fellow for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine.

 

 

 

 

Louis A. Gottschalk, M.D., Ph.D

Dr. Gottschalk received his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.  He obtained residencies in Psychiatry and Neurology at Washington University, St. Louis (Barnes and McMillan Hospitals) and the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Ft. Worth, TX.  He also completed a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry residency at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL.  His doctorate was obtained in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Los Angeles, CA.  Dr. Gottschalk was the first Research Psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD.  He is Professor Emeritus and the Founding Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine.

 

Thomas M. Johnson, M.D.

Dr. Johnson received his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine, and subsequently completed his internship and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Irvine.  He currently is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine where he is the Director of Medical Psychiatry.

 

 

 

 

Nathan E. Lavid, M.D.

Dr. Lavid received his medical degree from the University of Kansas and completed his internship at the University of California, Irvine.  Presently he is a fourth year psychiatry resident at the University of California, Irvine and has been awarded a faculty position at the University of Southern California where he will enter a forensic psychiatry fellowship July 2001.

 

 

 

 

Gerald A. Maguire, M.D.

Dr. Maguire is a person who stutters himself, and is fully involved in the National Stuttering Association.  Dr. Maguire received his medical degree from Saint Louis University and completed his internship and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Irvine.  He currently is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine where he is the Director of Geriatric Psychiatry and the Program Director for Residency Training.

 

 

 

 

Steven J. Mee, M.D.

Dr. Mee received his medical degree and completed his internship at the University of California, Irvine.  He is a second year psychiatry resident at the University of California, Irvine, where he works in the lab of Dr. William Byerley.

 

 

 

 

Tony Ortiz, B.S.

Mr. Ortiz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Biology from the University of California, Irvine.  Presently, he is a clinical research analyst at the University of California, Irvine. 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Plon, Pharm.D., M.A.

Dr. Plon received his doctorate in pharmacology from the University of Southern California.  He completed his pharmacology internship at the University of California, San Francisco.   He currently is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.

 

 

 

 

Glyndon D. Riley, Ph.D

Dr. Riley received his doctorate from Florida State University.  He currently is Professor Emeritus in Communicative Disorders at California State University, Fullerton.  Dr. Riley is the founder of the Riley Speech and Language Institute in Tustin, CA and developed the Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI) in 1972.  The SSI is now in its third edition.

 

 

 

Kenneth Steinhoff, M.D.

Dr. Steinhoff received his medical degree from Hahnemann University and completed his intership, psychiatry residency, and child and adolescent fellowship at the University of California, Irvine.  Presently he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine where he is the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Program Director for the Child and Adolescent Training Fellowship.

 

 

 

Joseph C. Wu, M.D.

Dr. Wu received his medical degree from the University of California, Irivne, and subsequently completed his internship and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Irvine.  He presently is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in Residence at the University of California, Irvine where he is the Director of the Brain Imaging Center.