Curriculum Vitæ
Bert Pepper, M.D.

120 N. Main Street
New City, New York 10956
(845) 634-0050; (845) 638-6061

Personal Born in New York City 9/28/32. Married.
Education M.S., 1964; in Community Psychiatry and Administrative Medicine: Columbia University School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine.
M.D., 1957, New York University School of Medicine.
B.S., 1953, in Chemistry: City College of New York.
Academic and Music Diploma, 1949, High School of Music and Art.
Internship 1957-1958, rotating, at U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, New York.
Psychiatric
Residency		 1962-1963, New York State Psychiatric Institute.
1960-1962, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, NY.

Professional Experience

1983 to date Founder and Executive Director, The Information Exchange, Inc. TIE is a national, tax-exempt not for profit agency whose mission is to improve treatment for mentally ill and emotionally troubled persons, especially those who also have substance abuse/alcohol disorders. TIE achieves its objectives via consultation, training, and research.
1984 to 1997 Director, Consultation Service of the American Psychiatric Association.
1976 to 1984 Member, Vice-Chair or Chair of the Consultation Services Board of the American Psychiatric Association
1963 to date Private practice of psychiatry.
1988 to 1990 Consultant to the County of Rockland for Mental Hygiene.
1988 to 2000 Consultant to Argus (Therapeutic) Community, Inc.
1975 to 1988 Director of Rockland County Unified Services: Director of the Rockland County Mental Health Center: and Commissioner of Community Services: Rockland County, State of N.Y.
1972 to 1975 Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, State of Maryland.
January 1974 to
September 1974		 Assistant Secretary for Programs, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of Maryland; Program Director for umbrella-type state agency. Responsibilities included policy direction, program integration , and general supervision of $400,000,000 annual operating budget. Components were: Mental Hygiene, Mental Retardation, Local Public Health, Preventative Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Chronic Disease and Geriatrics, Drug Abuse, and Juvenile Services.
1968 to 1974 Editorial consultant to Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia.
1968 to 1971 Senior Psychiatric Consultant to Institute of Community Studies, the research arm of United Community Funds and Chests of America.
1966 to 1970 Associate Commissioner, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. As part of an overall departmental reorganization in 1966, created and directed a new office: The NYC Metropolitan Regional Office served New York City and nine suburban and rural counties in southern New York State. Population of region 12 million. The office licensed all mental health and mental retardation services in the region, approved the annual plan for services for each county, and recommended State financial aid.
1964 to 1966 Director, Rockland County Community Mental Health Services. As administrator, accountable to lay professional Mental Health Board and to county government for all mental health and mental retardation services provided or funded by the county. Proposed and developed functional program, and secured federal, state and county grants to construct the Rockland County Community Mental Health Center. The Center was designed as an integrated component of a total county human services (health, social services, medical services, and mental health) system.
1962 to 1964 During Fellowship years at Columbia University School of Public Health, assignments included:
  1. General training and supervision by Viola Bernard, M.D., Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry.
  2. Administrative psychiatry supervision by Lawrence Kolb, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.
  3. Research Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology under Ernest Gruenberg, M.D., Professor of Research Psychiatry, Columbia University.
  4. New York City Mental Health Board; preceptorship in public mental health planning and administration under Marvin Perkins, M.D., Commissioner.
  5. Research fellowship in social psychology under Bruce Dohrenwend, Ph.D.
  6. Ittleson Research Center; training/research in childhood psychosis, directed by William Goldfarb, M.D.
  7. Bank Steet College of Education; psychiatric consultant.
1960 to 1962 Senior Psychiatrist, Rockland State Hospital (concurrent with residency).
1958 to 1960 Staff Psychiatrist, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital at Fort Worth, Texas. Hospital specialized in treating drug addicts.
1956 Two-month elective externship in child psychiatry at New York University, Bellevue Medical Center, under Lauretta Bender, M.D.

Faculty Appointments

1993 to date Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Faculty, Massachusetts Mental Health Center.
1978 to date Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University College of Medicine.
1973 to date Lecturer, School of Hygiene, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins Medical School.
1984 to 1987 Member of the Faculty for Continuing Medical Education, New York Academy of Medicine.
1977 to 1979 Adjunct Professor, Long Island University--Mercy College.
1964 to 1978 Various faculty titles and assignments in Division of Social and Community Psychiatry, Columbia University.
1972 to 1977 Lecturer in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
1973 to 1975 Senior Associate in Social Psychiatry, Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
1972 to 1975 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
1970 to 1972 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College.
1965 to 1972 Lecturer in Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry.
1964 to 1966 Lecturer in Law and Psychiatry, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, NJ.
1961 to 1962 Instructor in Psychiatry and Neurology, Rockland State Hospital, School of Nursing.

Publications: Books

  1. Lives at Risk: Understanding and Treating Young People with Dual Disorders, R. Ryglewicz and Bert Pepper, M.D., Free Press, New York, 1996.
  2. Advances in Treating the Young Adult Chronic Patient: New Directions for Mental Health Series, No. 21, B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz, Eds. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, January 1984.
  3. The Young Adult Chronic Patient: New Directions for Mental Health Services Series, No. 14, B. Pepper, and H. Ryglewicz, Eds. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, June 1982.
  4. The Social Setting of Mental Health, A. Kraft, A. Dean, B. Pepper. Basic Books, a Division of Harper & Row, New York, 1976.

Publications: Chapters, Articles

  1. "Stability of Psychiatric Symptoms Among Mentally Ill Chemical Abusers in Long-Term Residential Treatment Programs", Larry Nutbrock, Bert Pepper, et al., Journal of Drug Issues, 1997.
  2. "Homeless, Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusing Men in Different, Community-based Treatment Programs," Michael Rahav, Bert Pepper, et al., Chapter in The Effectiveness of Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse, 1997.
  3. "Working with Seriously Mentally Ill Substance Abusers", Bert Pepper and Edward Hendrickson, Chapter in Responding to the Mental & Substance Abuse Health Care Needs of Persons on Community Corrections, 1996.
  4. "Characteristics and Treatment of Homeless, Mentally Ill, Chemical-Abusing Men", Michael Rahav, Bert Pepper, et al., Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Jan.-March, 1995.
  5. "The Dual-Disorder Client: Mental Disorder and Substance Use", Hilary Ryglewicz, Bert Pepper, Innovations in Community Mental Health.
  6. "Bringing Experimental Research Designs into Existing Treatment Programs: The Case of Community-Based Treatment of the Dually Diagnosed, Michael Rahav, Bert Pepper, et al., Chapter in Drug Abuse Treatment, Edited by Fletcher, et al.
  7. "Dual Diagnosis of Major Mental Illness and Substance Disorder," New Directions for Mental Health Services Series, No. 50. Minkoff and Drake, Eds. Overview chapter with R. Drake, K. Minkoff. Chapter with M. McLaughlin on modifying the Therapeutic Community to treat the dually disordered. Jossey-Bass, Summer 1991.
  8. "Mentally Ill Alcohol & Substance Abusers: Overview," lead article in special issue on that topic; The Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Winter 1991. Served as issue editor.
  9. With H. Ryglewicz, wrote 3 educational books, published by TIE:
    1. Alcohol, Drugs, and Mental/Emotional Problems: What You Need To Know to Help Your Dual Disorder Client.
    2. Alcohol and Street Drugs: What Parents Need to Know.
    3. Alcohol and Street Drugs: Time for a Choice. (Client version).
    These books, first published in 1990, were published in their second editions in 1991.
  10. "The Information Exchange: A Resource for Diagnosis and Treatment of Young Adults with Severe Co-Morbid Disorders," Synapse, publication of the West Hudson Psychiatric Society. November - December 1991.
  11. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient and Substance Abuse," Forum, journal of the Rockland County Mental Health Association, September 1991.
  12. "The Young and The Restless: Programming for the Crisis-Ridden Young Adult Patient," B. Pepper and M. McLaughlin, in Psychiatry Takes to the Streets, Ed. N. Cohen. The Guilford Press, 1990.
  13. "Neuropsychological Characteristics of Young Adult Chronic Patients: Preliminary Observations," Joseph Zacker, Bert Pepper & Michael C. Kirshner, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1989.
  14. "A Public Policy For the Long-Term Mentally Ill: A Positive Alternative to Reinstitutionalization," American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 56(3), pp.452-457 July 1987.
  15. "What in a Diagnosis -- and What Isn't", Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 39, No. 1., January 1988.
  16. "Role of the State Hospital: A New Mandate for a New Era," Bert Pepper & Hilary Ryglewicz, Psychiatric Quarterly, vol 57, Number 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1985.
  17. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient," Bert Pepper and Hilary Ryglewicz. Chapter in Marlow, H. and Weinberg, R. (Eds.), Competence Development, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1985.
  18. "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment," Panel Member (contributor) to Chapter 12 -- Mental and Behavioral Disorders, American Medical Association, pp. 215-221, 2nd edition, 1984.
  19. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient." Chapter in Talbott, J. (Ed.), The Chronic Mental Patient: Five Years Later. Grune & Stratton, 1984.
  20. "The Management of chronic Pain," Bert Pepper & Hilary Ryglewicz. Chapter in Kelly, Wm. E. (Ed.), The Changing Role of Rehabilitation Medicine in the Management of the Psychiatric Patient, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Ill., 1983.
  21. "Unified Services: A New York State Perspective," Bert Pepper and Hilary Ryglewicz. Chapter in Talbott, J. (Ed.), Unified Services: Utopia Unrealized; New Directions for Mental Health, No. 18, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, June 1983.
  22. "Treatment Failures as Unmet Needs: the Role of a Unified Service System in Effecting and Affecting Improved Treatment for Young Adult Chronic Patients," Chapter in Spiegel, D. et al. (Ed.). Book based on conference at Stamford University, December 1982.
  23. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient: A New Challenge." American Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 3, No. 4. Brunner/Mazel, New York 1983.
  24. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient in the Community: Effective Treatment in the Psychiatric Day Hospital," B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Partial Hospitalization, Louisville, Kentucky, 1982. American Association for Partial Hospitalization, Boston, MA 1983.
  25. "Unified Services: Concept and Practice," B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, Vol. 33, No. 9, September 1982.
  26. "Testimony for the Neglected: The Mentally Ill in the Post-Deinstitutionalized Age," B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1982.
  27. "A Profile of the New Chronic Patient," B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz. Roche Report: Frontiers of Psychiatry, January 1, 1982.
  28. "Patient's Rights and Patient's Needs -- Are They Compatible?" B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz. Canadian Legal Aid Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1981.
  29. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient: Overview of a Population," B. Pepper, M. Kirshner, H. Ryglewicz. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 32, No. 7, July 1981.
  30. "The Young Adult Chronic Patient: An Emerging Population," B. Pepper and H. Ryglewicz, The Bulletin, American Psychiatric Association, Vol. 23, No. 7, April 1981.
  31. "Commentary on Legal, Clinical, Economical and Ethical Issues Related to the Self-Help and Mutual Aid System," Alan Gartner and B. Pepper, June 15-16, 1977. Published by the Bureau of Health Education in Cooperation with the Mental Health Materials Center.
  32. "The Role of Community and Staff Expectations in Effecting Change in a Children's Psychiatric Hospital," Bert Pepper and Erica Loutsch. In D.V Sanker (Ed.), Mental Health in Children, Vol. 1.
  33. Articles on Stammering, Stuttering, Left-Handedness, and Right-Handedness, in Funk & Wagnall's Enclyclopedia.
  34. "The Role of the State," Journal of the New York State Medical Society, Vol. 71, No. 11, June 1, 1971.
  35. "Community Mental Health Centers: From Concept to Reality," International Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. IX, 1970-1971.
  36. "Community Control in New York City: Crisis in Mental Health Services?" Published in the Bulletin of the New York State Council of District Branches. American Psychiatric Association, May 1969.
  37. "What is a Psychiatrist?" Pamphlet published by New York State Council of District Branches of the American Psychiatric Association, 1968. Edited, re-published and distributed nationally by the APA.
  38. "Group Therapy and Hospitalization of Narcotic Addicts," Archives of General Psychiatry, October 1961.

Appointments, Offices, and Memberships

1960 to date Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
1991 to date Member, Expert reviewer panel, American Journal of Addictions.
1990 to date Chair of the Clinical Sub-Committee and Member of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the New York State Department of Substance Abuse Services.
1997 to date Member, The National Writers Union
1988 President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1984 to 1990 Board Member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association
1984 to 1986 Treasurer, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1983 to 1984 Co-Chairman, Program committee, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1981 to date Member or Fellow, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1990 to date Member, American Society of Addiction Medicine.
1988 to date Charter Member: American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism & Addictions.
1972 to date Member or Fellow, American Public Health Association
1985 to date Member, American Association for Social Psychiatry.
1982 to date Member or Fellow, American College of Mental Health Administrators.
1988 to date Member, World Association for Social Psychiatry.
1977 to date Member, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis
1986 to date Member, New York University-Bellevue Psychiatric Society
1986 to date Member, and former Board Member, American Association of Community Psychiatrists
1987 to 1991 Member, New York State Quality of Care Commission. Appointed by the Governor of New York State.
1986 to 1990 Co-Chair, Council on Psychiatric Services of the American Psychiatric Association
1985 to 1989 Member, Subcommittee on the Mentally Handicapped in the Community of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Mental and Physical Disability.
1984 to 1988 Member, National Advisory Board of the American Mental Health Association.
1981 to 1987 President and Founder, Committee of Advocates for Psychiatric Patients.
1980 to 1986 Chairman of the New York State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors.
1985 to 1986 Member, Youth Suicide Prevention Council. Appointed by the Governor of New York State.
1980 to 1986 Chairman, New York State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors.
1982 to 1985 Member, Committee on Young Adult Psychiatry of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry.
1979 to 1984 Member, Area II Committee on Public Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association.
1982 Councilor, American Association of Psychiatric Administrators.
1979 to 1982 Member, President's Committee on Employment for the Handicapped.
1979 to 1982 Chairman, Study Group on Informed Consent to Treatment of the New York State Office of Mental Health.
1979 to 1981 Consultant to the Governor, State of Alabama.
1978 to 1981 Founding Chairman, Committee on Rehabilitation of the American Psychiatric Association.
1974 to 1977 Member, Task Force on Right to Treatment of the American Psychiatric Association.
1965 to 1969 Delegate, West Hudson District Branch, Chairman, Committee on Allied Health Professions of New York State Council District Branches. Was responsible for coordination of writing, editing, publishing and distributing 50,000 copies of a public education pamphlet, What is A Psychiatrist? Pamphlet was edited, re-published and distributed nationally by the American Psychiatric Association.
1968 to 1969 Member, Task Force to Study Implementation of P.L. 89-749 (comprehensive health planning). The Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association.

Nationwide Planning

1998 TO 1999 National Advisory Council, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
1973 to 1974 National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: liaison representative.
1973 to 1974 Secretary, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.

Statewide Planning

1972 to 1975 Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, State of Maryland.
1972 to 1975 Maryland State Hospital Construction Advisory Council.
1968 to 1969 Chairman, New York City Task Force on Rehabilitation of the Emotionally Ill of Comprehensive State-Wide Planning for Vocational Rehabilitation Services.
1964 to 1965 Member, Mid-Hudson Regional Mental Health Planning Committee.

Other

1998 Board of Directors, Pathways to Housing, Inc.
1979 to 1984 Reviewer, Hospital and Community Psychiatry, a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
1981 to 1983 Vice-Chairman and Founding Member, Rockland County Future, Inc.
1974 to 1975 Chairman, Atlantic States Conference on Mental Health.
1973 to 1974 Vice-Chairman and Program Chairman, Atlantic States Conferences on Mental Health.
1964 to 1971 Chairman, Board of Trustees, Community Music School, Spring Valley, New York.

Consultancies

1998-1999 Consultant to the Council on Addiction Psychiatry
1995-1996 Consultant to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on co-occurring mental health and substance-related disorders.
1979 Expert witness for the U.S Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division: As amicus curiae for the plaintiff, against the State of Alabama: Case of Wyatt v. Stickney.
1978 Expert witness for Mental Health Law Project: Nelson v. Hudspeth on behalf of the plaintiff, against the State of Mississippi, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
1978 Expert witness for the Office of the Public Advocate on behalf of plaintiff: Rennie v. Klein; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey.
1985 Expert witness for the U. S. Department of Justice in defense of the Coatsville, N.J., Veterans Administration Hospital; against a class action suit brought by the N.J. Office of the Public Advocate

Awards

1997 Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, New Providence, NJ
1997 Who's Who in the East, New Providence, NJ
1996 American Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Scientific Distinction Award.
1996 The Best Doctors in America, Northeast Region, Woodward/White, Inc.
1983, 1985 While serving as Commissioner of the Rockland County Mental Health Center, the Center received two awards from the American Psychiatric Association:
1983, Certificate of Significant Achievement for integrated and unified mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse and alcoholism services;
1985, Gold Award for identifying, researching and treating the emerging population of Young Adult Chronic Patients.
December,
1983 		Joseph R. Bernstein Award from the Rockland County Mental Health Association.
November,
1983 		Proclamation of Recognition and Appreciation, Rockland County Legislature.
1981 Award: In recognition of the completion of six outstanding years as County Director and one year as Chairman of the New York State Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors presented by the Community Services Board of Rockland County.
1972 Meritorious Service Citation presented by the New York State Department of Mental Health.

Certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Licensed to practice medicine in the States of New York and Maryland.

Certified as Number 1 on New York State List of eligibles for appointment to the position of Director, Psychiatric Center. Grade: 100% -- 1973.

Listed in Who's Who in the East, 1979.

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