(I) Certification:

Certified in Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry

(II) Practice:

Full time private practice in Child, Adolescent, Adult Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychiatry

(III) Teaching:

UCLA School of Medicine: Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.

Los Angles Psychoanalytic Institute: Senior Faculty & Director Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program 1981-2002

Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy: Senior Faculty & Member of the Board of Directors

Expert Consultant Medical Board of California 1978-

Special interest in teaching psychiatric ethics since 1978. Member of Medical Education Speakers Network, Inc. >

(IV) Southern California Psychiatric Society Activities:

Active in SCPS since 1970, served in all elected offices including President,1989-90; pioneered ethics procedures and ethics education as SCPS Ethics Chair, 1977-86, served as SCPS APA Assembly Rep, 1978-79, 1983-84 and 1990-94; SCPS State Legislative Rep, 1990-94.

(V) California Psychiatric Association Activities:

CPA representative to the California Council on Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Nursing; Chair, 1991 CPA Annual Program Committee; Member, Government Affairs Committee; Area VI Representative to the APA Joint Commission on Public Affairs, 1993-98.

(VI) California Senate Activities:

Member of the Task Force on Psychotherapist-Patient Sexual Relations, 1986-87; (helped draft the California sexual misconduct and patient information laws).

(VII) APA Activities:

Served in Membership, Ethics, Sexual Abuse and Family Violence and Program Committees. Chair of the Ethics Subcommittee on the Education of Psychiatrists on Ethical Issues (1989-91), (I helped develop APA's videotape on the problem of Reporting Sexual Misconduct); JCPA Area VI Rep, APA Trustee-at-Large, 1994-97; Board Liaison: Council on Economic Affairs, Practice Guidelines and to Develop Guidelines for Ethical Practice in Organized Settings; APA Treasurer, 1998-2000;Investment Oversight Committee, Chair:2000-06; Budget and Finance & Long Range Planning Committees: 2000-06. Chair: 2006-08 Elections Committee

(VIII) Hellenic American Psychiatric Association (HAPA)

1998-1999, Chaired the HAPA Organizing Committee. The founding of HAPA occurred in association with the APA Annual meeting on 5/15/99.

1999-2002, Founding President HAPA. Membership in HAPA is open to psychiatrists of Greek origin or who are identified with the Hellenic heritage, who are members of APA, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Hellenic Psychiatric Association or other comparable psychiatric associations in countries other than the US or Canada.

2002-Present, Acting Executive Director

(IX) Community Activities:

Since 1990, Founder and President of the non-profit (SCPS sponsored) Psychiatric Education and Research Foundation (PER), dedicated to building bridges of understanding between psychiatry and the public through education, research and community action. PER is the founding sponsor of the NAMI "Family to Family" Education Program in California.

(X) Personal:

Born and raised in Athens, Greece; came to the U.S. as a foreign student for college, graduated Douglass College, Rutgers University in 1960 with a BA in Philosophy and M.D. from USC Medical School in 1964. Post Graduate Training: Neurology at Mt. Sinai, New York City; Psychiatry at Albert Einstein, Bronx; Child Psychiatry at UCLA and Analytic training at L.A. Psychoanalytic Institute. Married to Pedro de Cordoba in 1963 and mother of three sons. Naturalized U.S. citizen in 1968.

(XI) Honors:

APA Distinguished Life Fellow

American College of Psychiatrists Fellow

Outstanding Young Woman of America 1971

Teacher of the Year Award (L.A. Institute) 1986

SCPS Appreciation Awards: for ethics 1986, for state legislative rep 1991.

SCPS Distinguished Service Award 1992

APA/JCPA Public Affairs Network Awards 1994 and 1995.

Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, MD Visiting Professorship at the University of Oklahoma, Department of Psychiatry, Oklahoma City OK: April 2002.