CURRICULUM VITAE
24 July 2007

NAME: James Holt Grubbs, M.D.
 

BORN: June 13, 1948 - Fort Worth, Texas

EDUCATION

R. L. Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966

University of Texas, Austin, 1966 - 1968

University of Washington, Seattle, 1968 - 1970, B.A. cum laude in Russian Language and Literature

University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, 1970 - 1974; M.D. (1 June,1974)

POST GRADUATE TRAINING

Psychiatric Residency, University of California Davis; 1974 - 1976

FELLOWSHIPS

APA Falk Fellowship, 1975 - 1977

Administrative Psychiatry, Psychiatry Education Branch, NIMH, January to June, 1976 (concurrent with residency at UC-Davis)

Child Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, 1976 - 1978

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, 1978 -1979

Private practice, Dallas, 1979 - 1995

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UTHSCD, 1979 - 1993

Acting Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Health Waikato Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand, June 1995, to December, 1996

Executive Chair, Directorate of Mental Health Services, Health Waikato Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand February, 1996, to December, 1996

Medical Director, Cleo Wallace Center, Denver, Colorado, July, 1997 to June, 1998

Private Practice, Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, June, 1998, to December, 2001

Consultant Child Psychiatrist, West Coast District Health Board, Greymouth, New Zealand, January, 2002 to December, 2002

  • Locum Tenens Psychiatrist: El Paso, Texas

  • Yuma, Arizona

  • La Crosse, Wisconsin

  • Flagstaff, Arizona

  • Hamilton, New Zealand

  • Greymouth, New Zealand

  • Eureka, California

  • Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Private Practice, Beaumont, Texas, January 2004 to April, 2006

BOARDS

Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, July 1975

Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Psychiatry November 1978

Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Child Psychiatry February 1979

LICENSES Texas, New Zealand, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Arizona, Virginia, Hawaii, Wisconsin

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Psychiatric Association, 1975-1998

Fellow, American Academy of Child Psychiatry, since 1983; member since 1978

Dallas County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, 1979-1998
Southern Psychiatric Association, 1986-1995

American Association of Partial Hospitalization, 1987-1990

Texas Association of Partial Hospitalization, 1987-1990

Fellow, Texas Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, since 1983; member since 1978

Fellow, Dallas Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, since 1990

Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Metropolitan Denver Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody, 1998-2001

Colorado Springs Psychiatric Society, 1998-2001

Colorado Springs Child Psychiatric Society, 1998-2001

OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS

  • President, Green Oaks Medical Staff, 1983 -1986

  • Director, Adolescent Services, Green Oaks, 1984 -1986

  • Chairman, Utilization Review, Green Oaks, 1986 -1989

  • Delegate to Board of Trustees, Texas Society of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1985 - 1989

  • Director, Dallas Day Hospital, 1986 - 1989

  • Board of Trustees, Texas Association of Partial - Hospitalization, 1988 - 1990

  • Director, Child & Adolescent Services, Charter Hospital - Dallas/Fort Worth, 1989 - 1990

  • Director and President, Bentley Medical Financial Corporation, 1990 to present

  • Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seay Behavioral Health Center, 1990 to 1991

  • Medical Director, Seay Behavioral Health Center, 1991 to 1993

  • President and Medical Director, Metroplex Psych Network, 1991 to 1995

  • Patron, Seay Behavioral Health Center, 1993 to present

  • Medical Director, AcurCare, 1993 to 1995

  • Acting Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Health Waikato, June, 1995 to December, 1996

  • Executive Chair, Directorate of Mental Health Services, Health Waikato Ltd., February to December, 1996

  • Medical Director, Cleo Wallace Center, Denver, Colorado, July, 1997 to June, 1998

  • Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, West Coast District Health Board, Greymouth, New Zealand, January, 2002 to December, 2002

SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

Research assistant to Alexis Shelokov, M.D., Proessor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, UTHSCSA, in the preparation of a monograph on current topics in Soviet virology for the Fogarty International Center, NIH, 1971 - 1972

Two-month course in tropical medicine and infectious diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., 1972

Three-month elective as a classroom teacher in the psycho-educational program (a therapeutic classroom for six to ten year old children with a variety of school-related problems) in the Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, 1973

Four-month elective to study various aspects of public health in Poland (including a one-month preparatory course at Warsaw University), supported by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board, New York, 1973

FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Russian, Polish, French, Spanish

SPECIAL INTERESTS

  1. Applying Piagetian theory and techniques to the study of psychopathology

  2. The relationship between Piagetian theory and psychoanalytic theory

  3. Psychoanalysis

  4. Child custody/visitation problems

  5. Partial hospitalization, continuum of care

  6. Short-term inpatient treatment

  7. Mental health outcomes

  8. Relational database applications in mental health practice

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, RESEARCH

1976
"Psychiatry and the Primary Care Physician," by Goldberg, Haas, Eaton, and Grubbs. JAMA, 236:944-45, 23 Aug.

1977
"Medical Student Education in Psychiatry," by Langsley, Freedman, Haas, and Grubbs. Am J Psychiatry 134:15-20, March, Supplement
"Operational Definitions for Service, Training, Education, and Training," J Med Ed 52: 190-96, March.

"Piagetian Intelligence Testing of a Bright Borderline Adolescent," presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, May.

Also, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, Houston, October.

Study of memory along Piagetian lines in disturbed, learning disabled/emotionally disabled, and physically handicapped children. New Haven. Completed 1978; data unpublished

1979
"The Differentiation of Exogenous Psychiatric Illnesses from Schizophrenia," by E.F. Kazanetz, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Moscow. Translated from the Russian and edited by Grubbs. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 36: 740-45, July.

Piagetian Testing of Disturbed Children and Adolescents, research grant, begun May, Dallas

Panel on Child Custody, Texas Society of Child Psychiatrists, Bandera, May.

1981
"A Borderline Case in Light of Piaget's Theory," Chapter 21 in Three Further Clinical Faces of Childhood, ed. by Anthony, E.J., and Gilpin, D.C. Spectrum Publications. New York.

1993
"The effect of short-term intensive inpatient psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents," draft, February.

1995
"Attention Deficit Disorder through the lifespan," Grand Rounds presentation, Waikato Hospital

1996
"Overview of new developments in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry," Royal Australia and New Zealand
College of Paediatrics Annual Meeting, Wairakei Resort, Lake Taupo, New Zealand.

1997
"SSRI-Induced Mania," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol 36(4),
April 1997, p.445

1998
"Database applications in clinical practice," American Psychiatric Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

2005
"Notes on the Clinical Management of Suicidality in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder," special paper for Health Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

2006
"Notes on the Clinical Management of Suicidality in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder," and clinical case review, special paper for the West Coast District Health Board, Greymouth, New Zealand.