About
- Educated at Illinois, Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Johns Hopkins Medical School
- Director of the M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, JHUMS (1968-1973)
- Board-certified in Forensic Suicidology (2009)
- Editor-in Chief, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (1982-1996)
- Director, U. South Carolina Suicide Center (1985-1996)
- Fellow in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, American Association of Forensic Sciences (current)
- Killam Fulbright Scholar, Alberta, Canada (Foothills Hospital, Calgary) (1986)
- Deputy Medical Examiner, Baltimore, Maryland (1968-1973)
- Author/Editor, Twenty-Seven Books (most recent, 2019)
- Yale Foundations Fund Fellow, Wien, Austria (1979-1980)
- World Health Organization Fellow, Berlin, Germany (1971)
- Consultant to the FDA and Columbia University (2005-2006)
- Grant Reviewer for NIMH, NSF, and AFSP
- Recipient of Twelve Suicide Research Grants totaling $2,022,478
- Consultant to the American Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (2001)
- Scientific Advisory Committee, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (1993-2003)
- Produced and acted in HBO Movie, "Death By Hanging" (1998)
- Five Court TV Programs