Harold Bursztajn, MD

Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D. [CV], a Harvard Medical School ('77) and Princeton University ('72) honors graduate, maintains an active patient practice, has a distinguished academic achievement record, and consults nationally. He is currently a senior clinical faculty member at Harvard Medical School and co-founded the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. In recognition of his many years serving as a Principal Mentor for students at Harvard Medical School Dr. Bursztajn recently received the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award. Additionally, he consults, teaches, and testifies nationwide as an expert qualified in general psychiatry and forensic neuropsychiatry. His special areas of interest include medical and psychiatric malpractice, psychiatric diagnosis, suicide prevention, sexual boundary violation claim evaluations, detection of malingering, pain impairment evaluations, informed consent, medication management standards, managed health care, psychiatric and forensic neuropsychiatric autopsies, testamentary capacity, diminished capacity, death penalty mitigation, and employment related issues such as ADA, disability, workers' compensation, and sexual harassment. Other areas of special clinical and forensic interest include the forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of medical complications of psychiatric illness and medication as well as psychiatric complications of medical illness.