Joseph D. Bloom, M.D.
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry<br/>Dean Emeritus, OHSU School of Medicine
Background
Joseph Bloom, MD, received his degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, interned at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and trained in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He then traded urban living for working in Alaska, first as chief of the mental health unit in the Alaska Native Health Service from 1966-68, and later in private practice in Anchorage from 1969-77. In 1977, Dr. Bloom moved to Portland and joined the OHSU faculty in the position of director of the Community Psychiatry Training Program. Over the years, Dr. Bloom has served as acting chairman and vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and became department chairman from l986 to 1994. He served as interim dean of the School of Medicine in 1993-94, and was appointed dean from 1994 until 2001, when he returned to the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry. Internationally recognized for his teaching, research and prolific writing in the fields of community and forensic psychiatry, Dr. Bloom is considered an expert on the insanity defense, and has written landmark articles on Oregon
Selected Publications
""The incarceration revolution": the abandonment of the seriously mentally ill to our jails and prisons.," The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol: 38, Issue: 4, Page 727-34) - 2010
"Forensic psychiatry and the forensic sciences: in memory of Peter J. Batten, MD.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 37, Issue: 4, Page 552-5) - 2009
"Telepsychiatry with rural American Indians: issues in civil commitments.," Behavioral sciences & the law (Vol: 26, Issue: 3, Page 287-300) - 2008
"Commentary: 1982 was AAPL's year of living dangerously.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 36, Issue: 2, Page 175-80) - 2008
"The majority of inpatient psychiatric beds should not be appropriated by the forensic system.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 36, Issue: 4, Page 438-42) - 2008
"Commentary: authorship and training in forensic psychiatry.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 35, Issue: 1, Page 32-3) - 2007
"Oregon's Juvenile Psychiatric Security Review Board.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 35, Issue: 2, Page 247-52) - 2007
"The evolution of the american law institute test for insanity in Oregon: focus on diagnosis.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 35, Issue: 3, Page 325-9) - 2007
"A comparison study of career satisfaction and emotional states between primary care and speciality residents.," Medical education (Vol: 40, Issue: 1, Page 79-86) - 2006
"Civil commitment is disappearing in Oregon.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 34, Issue: 4, Page 534-7) - 2006
"The use of the insanity defense as a jail diversion mechanism for mentally ill persons charged with misdemeanors.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 33, Issue: 1, Page 79-84) - 2005
"Subspecialization in psychiatry: third-generation programs.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 33, Issue: 1, Page 95-8) - 2005
"Cultural considerations in the criminal law: the sentencing process.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 33, Issue: 3, Page 335-41) - 2005
"Physician reporting of impaired drivers: a new trend in state law?," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 32, Issue: 1, Page 76-9) - 2004
"Thirty-five years of working with civil commitment statutes.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 32, Issue: 4, Page 430-9) - 2004
"A 36-year history of fatal road rage in Marion County, Oregon: 1963-1998.," Journal of forensic sciences (Vol: 45, Issue: 2, Page 397-9) - 2000
"The forensic psychiatric system in the United States.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 23, Issue: 5-6, Page 605-13) - 2000
"An administrative model for close monitoring and managing high risk individuals.," Behavioral sciences & the law (Vol: 17, Issue: 2, Page 227-35) - 1999
"Homicide or suicide: the killing of suicidal persons by law enforcement officers.," Journal of forensic sciences (Vol: 43, Issue: 1, Page 46-52) - 1998
"Changes in public psychiatric hospitalization in Oregon over the past two decades.," Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (Vol: 49, Issue: 3, Page 366-9) - 1998
"Changes in questions about psychiatric illness asked on medical licensure applications between 1993 and 1996.," Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (Vol: 49, Issue: 2, Page 202-6) - 1998
"Treatment refusal procedures and service utilization: a comparison of involuntarily hospitalized populations.," The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 25, Issue: 3, Page 349-57) - 1997
"Psychiatry: three models in search of a future.," Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) (Vol: 47, Issue: 8, Page 874-5) - 1996
"Substance-impaired physicians probationary and voluntary treatment programs compared.," The Western journal of medicine (Vol: 165, Issue: 1-2, Page 31-6) - 1996
"Attitudes of Oregon psychiatrists toward physician-assisted suicide.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 153, Issue: 11, Page 1469-75) - 1996
"The No Harm Contract in the emergency assessment of suicidal risk.," The Journal of clinical psychiatry (Vol: 55, Issue: 8, Page 344-8) - 1994
"The effect of depression treatment on elderly patients' preferences for life-sustaining medical therapy.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 151, Issue: 11, Page 1631-6) - 1994
"Tort liability coverage for community providers who serve insanity acquittees.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 45, Issue: 9, Page 933-5) - 1994
"Oregon's civil commitment law: 140 years of change.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 45, Issue: 5, Page 466-70) - 1994
"Effects of publicity on a forensic hospital.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 21, Issue: 4, Page 475-83) - 1993
"Excluding personality disorders from the insanity defense--a follow-up study.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 21, Issue: 1, Page 91-100) - 1993
"Is the Patient Self-Determination Act appropriate for elderly persons hospitalized for depression?," The Journal of clinical ethics (Vol: 4, Issue: 1, Page 46-50) - 1993
"Long-term follow-up of rural involuntary clients.," Journal of mental health administration (Vol: 20, Issue: 1, Page 46-57) - 1993
"Depression, suicide, and the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment.," The Journal of clinical ethics (Vol: 4, Issue: 4, Page 337-40) - 1993
"The involvement of schizophrenic insanity acquittees in the mental health and criminal justice systems.," The Psychiatric clinics of North America (Vol: 15, Issue: 3, Page 591-604) - 1992
"Do-not-resuscitate orders for depressed psychiatric inpatients.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 43, Issue: 9, Page 915-9) - 1992
"Prenatal care for pregnant chronic mentally ill patients.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 43, Issue: 9, Page 942-3) - 1992
"Improving quality assurance through psychiatric mortality and morbidity conferences in a university hospital.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 43, Issue: 5, Page 470-4) - 1992
"Chronic mental illness and perinatal outcome.," General hospital psychiatry (Vol: 14, Issue: 3, Page 171-6) - 1992
"The judges don't want to do it either.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 148, Issue: 9, Page 1273) - 1991
"Unrecognized physical illness.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 42, Issue: 8, Page 856-7) - 1991
"Psychiatric consultation to a state board of medical examiners.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 148, Issue: 10, Page 1366-70) - 1991
"Weapons possession by patients in a university emergency department.," Annals of emergency medicine (Vol: 20, Issue: 1, Page 8-10) - 1991
"Monitored conditional release of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 148, Issue: 4, Page 444-8) - 1991
"Costs of managing insanity acquittees under a psychiatric security review board system.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 41, Issue: 6, Page 613-4) - 1990
"Victims of fraud: comparing victims of white collar and violent crime.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 18, Issue: 1, Page 55-63) - 1990
"The pregnant psychiatric inpatient: a missed opportunity.," General hospital psychiatry (Vol: 12, Issue: 6, Page 373-8) - 1990
"Post-Hinckley insanity reform in Oregon.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 18, Issue: 4, Page 405-12) - 1990
"Duty to protect and gun control.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 147, Issue: 3, Page 379-80) - 1990
"Threats and assaults against psychiatrists.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 18, Issue: 1, Page 37-46) - 1990
"Family members' opinions about civil commitment.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 41, Issue: 5, Page 537-40) - 1990
"The malpractice claims experience of physicians investigated for inappropriate prescribing.," The Western journal of medicine (Vol: 151, Issue: 3, Page 336-8) - 1989
"Mental health services research with forensic populations.," New directions for mental health services (Vol: , Issue: 44, Page 83-95) - 1989
"The coexistence of physical and mental illness among two samples of Oregon's chronically mentally ill.," New directions for mental health services (Vol: , Issue: 44, Page 97-110) - 1989
"The character of danger in psychiatric practice: are the mentally ill dangerous?," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 17, Issue: 3, Page 241-55) - 1989
"The evolution of Oregon's Public Psychiatry Training Program.," New directions for mental health services (Vol: , Issue: 44, Page 113-22) - 1989
"Investigators' and judges' opinions about civil commitment.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 17, Issue: 1, Page 15-24) - 1989
"Physicians investigated for inappropriate prescribing by the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners.," The Western journal of medicine (Vol: 150, Issue: 5, Page 597-601) - 1989
"Chronic mental illness and the criminal justice system.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 40, Issue: 7, Page 718-23) - 1989
"An empirical study of emergency commitment.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 146, Issue: 2, Page 182-6) - 1989
"Drug treatment refusal and length of hospitalization of insanity acquittees.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 16, Issue: 3, Page 279-84) - 1988
"An overview of psychiatric treatment approaches to three offender groups.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 39, Issue: 2, Page 151-8) - 1988
"The duty to protect others from your patients--Tarasoff spreads to the Northwest.," The Western journal of medicine (Vol: 148, Issue: 2, Page 231-4) - 1988
"The influence of the right to refuse treatment on precommitment patients.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 16, Issue: 1, Page 5-9) - 1988
"Treatment refusal among forensic inpatients.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 15, Issue: 1, Page 5-13) - 1987
"Methodology for the analysis of civil commitment detention times and costs.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 15, Issue: 4, Page 359-70) - 1987
"Academic, community and state mental health program collaboration: the Oregon experience.," Community mental health journal (Vol: 23, Issue: 4, Page 260-70) - 1987
"Psychiatric manpower and services in a community mental health system.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 38, Issue: 3, Page 287-91) - 1987
"The legal basis of forensic psychiatry: statutorily mandated psychiatric diagnoses.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 144, Issue: 7, Page 847-53) - 1987
"The prevalence and significance of medical illness among chronically mentally ill outpatients.," Community mental health journal (Vol: 23, Issue: 2, Page 81-90) - 1987
"The use of DSM-III axis III in recording physical illness in psychiatric patients.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 144, Issue: 11, Page 1484-6) - 1987
"The relationship between mental health programs and general physicians.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 38, Issue: 12, Page 1338-40) - 1987
"Emerging tribal models for the civil commitment of American Indians.," American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center (Vol: 1, Issue: 1, Page 6-23) - 1987
"A pilot study of depression among American Indian patients with research diagnostic criteria.," American Indian and Alaska native mental health research : journal of the National Center (Vol: 1, Issue: 2, Page 4-15) - 1987
"Competency determinations in civil commitment.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 144, Issue: 2, Page 193-6) - 1987
"Lifetime police contacts of discharged Psychiatric Security Review Board clients.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 8, Issue: 2, Page 189-202) - 1986
"A methodology for predicting the effects of changes in civil commitment decision making.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 14, Issue: 1, Page 71-80) - 1986
"A method for quantifying and comparing civil commitment processes.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 143, Issue: 6, Page 744-9) - 1986
"Medical services in community mental health programs.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 37, Issue: 10, Page 1045-7) - 1986
"Evaluation and treatment of insanity acquittees in the community.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 14, Issue: 3, Page 231-44) - 1986
"Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board: a comprehensive system for managing insanity acquittees.," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol: , Issue: 484, Page 86-99) - 1986
"Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board: a comprehension system for managing insanity acquittees.," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol: , Issue: 484, Page 86-99) - 1986
"The consultation model and forensic psychiatric practice.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 13, Issue: 2, Page 159-64) - 1985
"The effect of mental health system changes on civil commitment.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 13, Issue: 4, Page 345-57) - 1985
"Halfway around the world to prison. Vietnamese in Oregon's criminal justice system.," Medicine and law (Vol: 4, Issue: 6, Page 563-72) - 1985
"Rural civil commitment.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 12, Issue: 4, Page 359-71) - 1984
"Oregon's new insanity defense system: a review of the first five years, 1978 to 1982.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 12, Issue: 4, Page 383-402) - 1984
"An empirical view of patients exercising their right to refuse treatment.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 7, Issue: 3-4, Page 315-28) - 1984
"Insanity defenses: contested or conceded?," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 141, Issue: 7, Page 885-8) - 1984
"An empirical view of patients exercising their right to refuse treatment.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 7, Issue: 3-4, Page 315-28) - 1984
"Ensuring continuity of care for a Munchausen patient through a public guardian.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 34, Issue: 1, Page 65-7) - 1983
"Local variations in the civil commitment process.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 11, Issue: 1, Page 5-15) - 1983
"The CMHC as a setting for residency education.," Community mental health journal (Vol: 18, Issue: 1, Page 3-10) - 1982
"Characteristics of persons committed to Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 10, Issue: 3, Page 155-64) - 1982
"Effects of a new involuntary commitment law: expectations and reality.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 10, Issue: 4, Page 249-59) - 1982
"An examination of the use of transcultural data in the courtroom.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 10, Issue: 2, Page 89-95) - 1982
"After Oregon's insanity defense: a comparison of conditional release and hospitalization.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 5, Issue: 3-4, Page 391-402) - 1982
"Oregon's innovative system for supervising offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity.," Hospital & community psychiatry (Vol: 33, Issue: 12, Page 1022-3) - 1982
"Training psychiatrists to work with community support systems for chronically mentally ill persons.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 138, Issue: 1, Page 98-101) - 1981
"Disposition of insanity defense cases in Oregon.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 9, Issue: 2, Page 93-9) - 1981
"Local variations in arrests of psychiatric patients.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 9, Issue: 3, Page 203-9) - 1981
"Residency curriculum in forensic psychiatry.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 137, Issue: 6, Page 730-2) - 1980
"Psychiatric participation in the Hootch case: effects on Alaska native education.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 137, Issue: 8, Page 959-62) - 1980
"An Indochinese refugee psychiatric clinic: culturally accepted treatment approaches.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 137, Issue: 11, Page 1429-32) - 1980
"Forensic psychiatric evaluation of Alaska native homicide offenders.," International journal of law and psychiatry (Vol: 3, Issue: 2, Page 163-71) - 1980
"Civil commitment of American Indians.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 8, Issue: 1, Page 94-103) - 1980
"Oregon's civil commitment, statute: Stone's "thank-you theory" - a judicial survey.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 7, Issue: 4, Page 381-9) - 1979
"Required educational objectives in community psychiatry.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 136, Issue: 2, Page 193-5) - 1979
"Boarding schools: effects on the mental health of Eskimo adolescents.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 134, Issue: 4, Page 411-7) - 1977
"Report of the advisory committee to the Department of Health and Scial Services regarding medical care in the Anchorage correctional institutions.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 19, Issue: 1, Page 7-9) - 1977
"Mental health program development in rural Alaska--changing roles of public and private psychiatrists.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 18, Issue: 3, Page 25-8) - 1976
"Aspects of violence reduction.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 17, Issue: 1, Page 3-8) - 1975
"Patterns of Eskimo homicide.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 3, Issue: 3, Page 165-74) - 1975
"Cross-cultural forensic psychiatry in Alaska.," The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (Vol: 3, Issue: 4, Page 252-6) - 1975
"Migration and psychopathology of eskimo women.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 130, Issue: 4, Page 446-9) - 1973
"Population trends of Alaska natives and the need for planning.," The American journal of psychiatry (Vol: 128, Issue: 8, Page 998-1002) - 1972
"A heroin withdrawal program.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 14, Issue: 1, Page 30-2) - 1972
"Recent population trends of Alaska natives.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 13, Issue: 1, Page 3-5) - 1971
"Rural mental health in Alaska.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 12, Issue: 1, Page 21-3) - 1970
"Socio-cultural aspects of alcoholism.," Alaska medicine (Vol: 12, Issue: 3, Page 65-7) - 1970
