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Expert Services - About
Dr. Blum
Bennett Blum, M.D., is an
internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both forensic
psychiatry and
geriatric psychiatry. An expert on the evaluation of
undue influence and associated manipulation tactics, Dr.
Blum has consulted on hundreds of legal cases throughout the
United States and internationally - including the precedent-setting
United Nations trial of General Pavle Strugar. This was the
first full competency hearing at an International War Crimes
Tribunal since Nuremberg.
Dr. Blum has worked
with major US Government agencies, law
enforcement, and research institutes on the prevention,
investigation, and litigation of issues related to undue influence and
coercion. In 1999, he was the only mental health expert asked
to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation's hearing on Fraud: Targeting
America's Seniors. From 2002-2004, Dr. Blum
was a technical advisor to the Research Triangle Institute for its
national study on elder financial exploitation.
This study was the basis for the Administration on Aging’s
“Financial Exploitation of Older Persons Report.” In 2005,
Dr. Blum participated in an invitation-only policy development
conference for the White House Conference on Aging.
In 2009, the U.S. State Department sponsored a lecture by
Dr. Blum at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the forensic
psychiatry analysis of undue influence claims in war crimes trials.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate
of University of Arizona, Dr. Blum received his medical education from
the University of Arizona and psychiatric training at the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a forensic psychiatric
consultant to the litigation-consulting firm of Park Dietz &
Associates, Inc. (http://www.parkdietzassociates.com/). His work has
been published by the National College of Probate Judges, State Bar
Associations, and in major medical textbooks -including sections on
elder abuse and undue influence in the seventh, eighth, and ninth
editions of Kaplan and
Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Dr. Blum's
work on undue influence assessment is also available in Assessment of Older Adults with
Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists -
published jointly by the American Bar Association's Commission on Law
and Aging and the American Psychological Association.
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