Washington Center For Psychiatry

CURRICULUM VITAE

Alen J. Salerian, MD

Office Address:

5225 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 104

Washington DC 20015

Telephone: (202) 244-9000

Fax: (202) 244-6610

Website: www.wcpdc.com

Date of Birth: August 9, 1947

Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey

Marital Status: Married

Children: 4

CURRENT POSITIONS

Medical Director, Washington Center for Psychiatry, October 2002-Present.

President, International Center for Evidence-Based History.

Founding Member, United States Advisory Board, Moscow University (Moscow Institute of Commerce), 1992.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Assistant Clinical Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine, 1976-2002.

Medical Director, FBI MPERT (FBI’s Mobile Psychiatric Emergency Response Team), 1992-1998. As the director of MPERT, directed and supervised psychological debriefing of FBI agents during Waco crises.

Associate Medical Director, Psychiatric Institute of Washington, July 1994-July 1999.

Editor, Letters from a Washington Psychiatrist, a quarterly newsletter, Washington Psychiatric Center, 1998-2000.

Investigator, Clinical Trial Unit, Psychiatric Institute of Washington, February 1998-April 2000.

Chairman, Patient Care Evaluation Committee, Psychiatric Institute of Washington, July 1994-July 1997.

Psychiatric Consultant to the Royal Family of Bahrain (Al-Khalifa), 1994-1995.

Medical Director, Illness and Bereavement Counseling Center, Rockville, Maryland and Washington DC, 1976-1995.

Member, Board of Directors, Metropolitan Psychiatric Group, Washington DC, 1984-1990.

Director, Psychiatric Institute Day Hospital Program, Washington DC, 1983-1989.

SCIENTIFIC WORK

President Kennedy’s Postmortem Examination is Scientifically Invalid. Medical Hypotheses, October 2008

Cooling core body temperature may slow down neurodegeneration with Nansen Saleri. CNS Spectrum 13:3 March 2008.

Altering brain temperature may be of value to treat mood disorders. World Psychiatric Association International Congress, July 2006.

Brain Temperature may influence mood: A Hypothesis. Medical Hypotheses (2008) 70, 497-500.

Review of mass homicides of intelligentsia. Forensic Examiner, Fall 2007.

Chairperson, Neuroimaging and Neurosciences in Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association International Congress, Istanbul, July 2006.

Cooler biologically compatible core body temperatures may prolong longevity and combat neurodegenerative disorders. Medical Hypotheses, December 2005.

A review of FDR’s 4th term presidency. Forensic Examiner, Winter 2004.

Antidepressants for kids. Letter to the Editor, The Lancet, August 21, 2004.

Successful treatment of sexual dysfunction with dronabinol. Letter to the Editor, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, August 2004.

Sildenafil for psychotropic-induced sexual dysfunction. American Journal of Sex and Family Treatment, Spring 2000.

The TRH test and thyroid hormone in refractory depression with Targum, Greenberg, Harmon, Salerian, Kessler, Fram. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1984.

Psychological sequelae of genocide three generations later. International Conference on Holocaust and Genocide, Tel Aviv, Israel.

PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Psychiatric Tests Could Prevent Such Tragedies, The Combustible Problem, Richmond Times, Saturday, May 5, 2007.

Only If Turkey Could Learn From Hrant Dink, FresnoBee, June 2, 2007.

A Sniper Suspect Sane, United Press International, November 4, 2002.

Their Annual Checkup Should be Complete, Washington Post, October 25, 2001.

Put a Psychiatrist in His Corner, Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2001.

Quite Simply Tyson Needs Help, Washington Post, February 3, 2002.

Prosecute the Criminals Not the Pain Patients, Indianapolis Star, January 20, 2002.

Depriving Patients of OxyContin is a Crime, The Hartford Courant, December 26, 2001.

Freedom Corrodes Freedom’s Foundation, Baltimore Sun, October 25, 2001.

Shed Light on Psychiatric Woes, USA Today, August 6, 2001.

Diagnosis Missing, Washington Post, March 11, 2001.

Making the Three Tenors Sing, Washington Post, June 20, 2001.

MAJOR MEDIA APPEARANCES

CNN, Fit to Lead by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, October 11, 2008

60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl and CBS Production, December 17, 2001.

BBC Correspondent, The Near Perfect Spy, June 17, 2001.

Host Tom Mangold

Regular appearances as a psychiatric expert on Channel 9 WUSA News.

BOOKS

Viagra for Your Brain, ISBN 9744975, 2003.

Honest Moments with Dr. Shrink, 2003, A collection of cartoons about life, psychiatry and bad shrinks.

EXHIBITIONS

Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC, One Man Show, Honest Moments with Dr. Shrink, June 2003.

New Gallery, Washington, DC, One Man Show, Honest Moments with Dr. Shrink, September 2003.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND TESTIMONY

Food and Drug Administration hearings, suicidality and clinical trials for antidepressant drugs in pediatric patients, September 13, 2004.

GRAND ROUNDS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

George Washington University Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Management of Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants, February 1999.

Key note speaker at the combined fall meeting of the Psychiatric Society of Virginia and Virginia Counsel of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Management of Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants, September 24, 1998.

Course director, symposium on Depression for Primary Care in Washington, DC, October 7, 2000.

Host and moderator of the Journal Club, Clinical Vignettes at the Old Angler’s Inn, Washington, DC, from 1996 to 2000.

Grand Rounds, Women and Depression, Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, DC, June 1996.

Depression and Medical Disorders at Arlington Hospital in Arlington, Virginia in 1996.

AWARDS

Annual Laughlin Award of National Psychiatric Fund for Merit in Psychiatry, 1976, given to the best resident in psychiatry at George Washington University Hospital and Medical Center.

Distinguished Achievement Award by Armenian American Behavioral Science Association, 2000.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Board of Forensic Medicine Diplomate.

Member of American Clinical Psychopharmacology.

PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS

Salerian Affective Experiences Scale, a screening test for depression.

Color Concept as a Model for Medical Communication.

Brain Beer, the First Antioxidant Beer, Dr. Salerian’s brain secret antioxidant cocktail.

TRAINING

University of Istanbul School of Medicine, 1965-1971.

Medical internship, Providence Hospital, January 1, 1971-May 1971.

Medical internship, Prince George General Hospital, Cheverly, Maryland, May 1971-December 1972.

Psychiatric residency, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, July 1973-June 1976.

Chief Resident, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1975-1976.

LICENSURE

Medical licensure, District of Columbia since 1974.

UCFMG 1970.

Maryland 1973.

Turkish medical licensure 1970.

REFERENCES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST