In addition to office psychiatry since 1995, other professional interests include:

 

Hospital Committees

From 2009 through 2022, I served as chair of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee at CPMC. In this position I oversaw all continuing education for physicians at the medical center. (As of 2023, I’m still on the committee, but stepped down as chair.) The CME Committee reviews educational programs to maintain compliance with state and national quality standards, and assures freedom from commercial and other sources of bias. To maintain licensure, all physicians in California must complete 25 hours of approved CME each year.

I was an active member of the CPMC Ethics Committee from 2005 to 2018. I attended monthly meetings to discuss patient-care ethics at the hospital, and occasionally participated in ethics consultations on inpatients when there were psychiatric issues to consider.

 

Teaching

I've taught psychiatry ever since I was a trainee myself. From 1996 to 2007, in addition to seeing private patients, I served as Medical Director of the CPMC Mental Health Clinic, a clinic where psychiatrists and clinical psychologists are trained. I taught outpatient evaluation, and helped in many crisis situations. I favored teaching psychology and psychiatry trainees together, so each discipline could benefit from the other's perspective, and to foster cooperation instead of competition.

For many years I’ve led weekly seminars for psychiatry residents at CPMC. This year I’m teaching dynamic psychotherapy, “psychiatric controversies," and my usual two-month seminar on psychiatric ethics. Every year I also meet weekly with one or two psychiatry residents for individual psychotherapy supervision. "Supervision" is traditional one-on-one case-based learning, a crucial step toward becoming a competent therapist.  It’s good for me too: there's nothing like teaching to make you think afresh about your own field.

 

Blogging and Other Online Activity

Since 2008, I've shared psychiatric concepts and reflections on a blog attached to my website. Reidbord's Reflections contains about 135 short essays on a variety of psychiatric and medical topics. Sacramento Street Psychiatry is a blog on the Psychology Today website where some of my pieces have been re-posted to a wider readership. I’ve also re-posted some pieces on KevinMD.  I'm gratified that my blog posts are read all across the U.S. and overseas.

You may also see my name appear from time to time in the comment sections of the New York Times online and in other media. When I speak publicly as a psychiatrist, I identify myself.

I have two pages on Psychology Today's therapist directory as well.