Biographical Information:
(I) Board Certified in Adult and Child Psychiatry
(II) Full time private practice in Child, Adolescent, Adult
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychiatry.
(III) Teaching:
Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, UCLA in child and
adult divisions and medical student education.
Senior Faculty: Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute
Senior Faculty: Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy
Director: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Los Angeles
Psychoanalytic Institute
Special interest in teaching psychiatric ethics since 1978.
(IV) DB Activities: Active since 1970, served in all elected
offices including president 1989-90; pioneered ethics procedures
and ethics education as SCPS Ethics Chair 1977-86, served as SCPS
APA Assembly Rep 1978-79, 1983-84 and 1990-94; SCPS State Legislative
Rep 1990-94.
(V) California Psychiatric Association Activities: CPA representative to the California Council on Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Nursing; Chair 1991 CPA Annual Program Committee, Member Government Affairs Committee and
1993-present, Chair, Area VI Public Affairs Committee.
(VI) California Senate Activities: Member of the Task Force
on Psychotherapist-Patient Sexual Relations, 1986-87; (helped
draft the California sexual misconduct and patient information
laws).
(VII) APA Activities: Past member of Membership, Ethics, Sexual
Abuse and Family Violence, and Program Committees. Chair of the
Ethics Subcommittee on the Education of Psychiatrists on Ethical
Issues (1989-91), (I helped develop APA's videotape on the problem
of reporting sexual misconduct). Currently: JCPA Area VI Rep,
APA Trustee-at-Large, 1994-97. Board Liaison: Council on Economic
Affairs, Practice Guidelines, Private Practice, Ad Hoc Committee:
to Review Election Committee's Guidelines and to Develop Guidelines
for Ethical Practice in Organized Settings, JCPA.
(VIII) Community Activities: Since 1990, Founder and President
of the non-profit (SCPS sponsored) Psychiatric Education and Research
Foundation (PER): dedicated to building bridges of understanding
between psychiatry and the public through education, research
and community action. PER is the founding sponsor of the CAMI
Journey of Hope program in California.
(IX) Personal: Born and raised in Athens, Greece; came to
the U.S. as a foreign student in 1956; graduated Douglass College,
Rutgers University in 1960 with a BA in Philosophy and M.D. from
USC Medical School in 1964. Residences: Neurology at Mt. Sinai,
New York City; Psychiatry at Albert Einstein, Bronx; Child Psychiatry
at UCLA and analytic training at L.A. Institute. Naturalized
U.S. citizen in 1968 after my marriage to Pedro de Cordoba in
1963; mother of three sons.
(X) Honors:
Outstanding Young Women of America 1971
APA Fellow 197
Teacher of the Year Award (L.A. Institute) 1986
SCPS Appreciation Awards:
for ethics 1986
for state legislative rep 1991
SCPS Distinguished Service Award 1992