CURRICULUM VITAE
Kenneth C. Rickler, M.D.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth April 20, 1947 Place of Birth Buffalo, New York Citizenship U.S.A.
Business Address Butler Hospital 345 Blackstone Boulevard Providence, RI 02906
Business Phone Numbers (401) 455-6506 (voice) (401) 455-6405 (fax)
EDUCATION
Undergraduate Cornell University 1964-1968 English Major B.A. – 1968, Cum Laude
Medical School State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine 1968 – 1972 M.D. – 1972
POST-GRADUATE TRAINING
Internship Wadsworth Veteran’s Administration Hospital Wilshire and Sawtelle Boulevard Los Angeles, California July 1972 – June 1973 Internal Medicine
Residency: Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center Department of Neurology 1200 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, California June 1975 – June 1978 Neurology Residency
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POST-GRADUATE TRAINING, CONTINUED
Fellowship: University of California Los Angeles Medical Center Department of Psychiatry 710 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, California 90024 July 1978 – June 1979 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
MILITARY SERVICE None
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND BOARD CERTIFICATION
Diplomate of National Board of Medical Examiners Certificate Number 123515 July, 1973
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Board Certified in Neurology Certificate Number 209906 April, 1980
License to Practice Medicine in California License Number G24876 June 1, 1972 – 1985 (inactive)
License to Practice Medicine in the District of Columbia License Number 11807 August 23, 1979 - 1995 (inactive)
License to Practice Medicine in Maryland License Number D25183 July 17, 1980 – 1995 (inactive)
License to Practice Medicine in North Carolina License Number 95-00199 January 28, 1995 – 1998 (inactive)
License to Practice Medicine in Rhode Island License Number 8987 September, 1995 – present
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor University of California at Los Angeles Department of Neurology Los Angeles, California 1979 – 1980
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C. 1980 – 1991
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C. 1980 – 1992
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C. 1992 – 1995
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C. 1993 – 1995
Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University October, 1995 – Present
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
Emergency Room Physician North Valley Medical Group Pacoima, California 1974 – 1978
Consultant in Adult and Pediatric Neurology Central City Mental Health Clinic Los Angeles, California 1978 - 1979
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HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS, CONTINUED
Director, Neurobehavioral Clinic University of California at Los Angeles Reed Neurological Research Center Los Angeles, California 1978 – 1980
Medical Director Neurobehavioral Foundation Los Angeles, California 1979 – 1980
Co-Director Neurobehavior Clinic Neuroscience Center at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital National Institute of Mental Health and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. 1983 – 1988
Consultant Neurobehavior Clinic Neuroscience Center at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital National Institute of Mental Health and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. 1989 – 1995
Neurologist Forensic Division St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. 1980 – 1995
Guest Researcher Clinical Brain Disorders Branch Branch Chief: Daniel Weinberger, M.D. National Institute of Mental Health Washington, D.C. 1989 – 1995
Consultant Child Psychiatry Branch Branch Chief: Judith L. Rappoport, M.D. Section Chief: Susan E. Swedo, M.D. National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, Maryland 1991 – 1995
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HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS, CONTINUED
Consultant in Behavioral Neurology VA Medical Center Providence, Rhode Island September 1995 – July 1999
Consultant in Behavioral Neurology RI Training School Cranston, RI September 1995 – Present
Neurologist Butler Hospital Providence, Rhode Island September 1995 – Present
Consultant in Behavioral Neurology Eleanor Slater Hospital Cranston, Rhode Island January, 1998 – July, 2004
OTHER APPOINTMENTS
State Disability Neurological Examiner Valley Evaluation Medical Clinic El Monte, California 1978
Consultant California State Department of Health Sacramento, California
National Medical Advisory Committee Tourette Syndrome Association Bayside, New York 1983 – 1998
Medical Advisory Committee Greater Washington Chapter Tourette Syndrome Association Washington, D.C. 1983 - 1995
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OTHER APPOINTMENTS, CONTINUED
Medical Advisory Committee Consultant, Attention Deficit Disorder Clinic Jewish Social Services Agency Rockville, Maryland 1993 – 1995
National TSA Liaison for Alternative Treatment Tourette Syndrome Association Bayside, New York 1997 – present
Medical Advisor R.I. Chapter, Tourette’s Syndrome Association September, 1995 to present
Neurologist, Brown University Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Research and Treatment Program July, 1997 to present
Director of Fundraising Butler Hospital Providence, RI 02906 2000 - 2002
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES
Chairman, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. Member: 1988 – 1995, Chairman: 1991 – 1995
Institutional Review Board St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. 1983 –1995
Violence Control Committee St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C. 1988 –1995
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee Butler Hospital Providence, Rhode Island September, 1995 to present
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HOSPITAL COMMITTEES, CONTINUED
Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Research Committee Butler Hospital Providence, Rhode Island 1997 - 2002
MEMBERSHIPS IN SOCIETIES
American Academy of Neurology July 1978 – present
American Psychiatric Association June 1980 – 1997
Washington Psychiatric Society June 1980 – 1995
Behavioral Neurology Society 1985 – 1990
Tourette Syndrome Association October 1981 – present
International Society for Research on Aggression 1979 – 1985
American Neuropsychiatric Association 1995 – present
PUBLICATIONS
Rickler KC. Neurologic diagnosis in psychiatry. Psychiatric Annals, 13(5):408-411, 1983.
Hyde TM, Aaronson BA, Randolph C, Rickler KC, Weinberger DR. Relationship of birth weight to the phenotypic expression of Gilles de la Tourette’s syndrome in monozygotic twins. Neurology, 42:652-658, 1992.
Leonard HL, Swedo SE, Rapoport JL, Rickler KC, Topol D, Lee S, Rettew D. Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Adv Neurol, 58:83-93, 1992.
Cantor-Graae E, McNeil TF, Rickler KC, Hyde TM, Sjostrom K, Rawlings R, Higgins ES. Are neurological abnormalities in well discordant monozygotic twins of schizophrenics the result of perinatal trauma? American Journal of Psychiatry, 151:1194-1199, 1994.
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PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED
Hyde TM, Emsellem HL, Rickler KC, Weinberger DR. Electroencephalographic abnormalities in monozygotic twins with Tourette’s syndrome. Brit J Psychiatry, 164:811-817, 1994.
Torrey EF, Taylor EG, Brach S, Bowler AE, McNeil TF, Rawlings RR, Quinn PO, Bigelow LB, Rickler KC, Sjostrom K, Higgins ES, Gottesmann II. Evidence for a prenatal origin of schizophrenia in a subgroup of discordant monozygotic twins. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 20(3):423-432, 1994.
Hyde TM, Stacey ME, Coppola R, Handel SF, Rickler KC, Weinberger DR. Cerebral morphometric abnormalities in Tourette’s syndrome: A quantitative MRI study of monozygotic twins. Neurology, 45:1176-1182, 1995.
Knable M, Rickler KC. Psychosis associated with Felbamate. J of Clinical Psychopharm, 15(4):292-293, 1995.
Leonard HL, March J, Rickler KC, Allen AJ. Pharmacology of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in children and adolescents. J Amer Acad Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(6):725-736, 1997.
Karitani M, Gascon GG, Leonard HL, Rickler, KC. Pediatric onset restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements in sleep. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 36(9):1161-1162, 1997.
Hovey J, Rickler KC. Neurobehavioral evaluation and diagnostic study of 102 patients in an “L” facility. Prepared for the California State Department of Mental Health, 1979.
Ehlers CL, Rickler KC, Hovey JE. A possible relationship between plasma testosterone and aggressive behavior in a female outpatient population. In: M. Geigis, L Kiloh (eds), First International Symposium on Limbic Epilepsy and the Dyscontrol Syndrome. Amsterdam: Elsevier, North Holland, 1980.
Hovey J, Rickler KC. Implications of neurobehavioral evaluation for mental health care in the State of California. California Department of Mental Health, 1980.
Rickler KC. Episodic dyscontrol. In: DF Benson, D Blumer (eds), Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Disease, Volume II. New York: Grune & Stratton, pp. 49-73, 1982.
Cadet JL, Rickler KC, Weinberger DR. The clinical neurologic examination in schizophrenia. In: HA Nasrallah, DR Weinberger (eds), The Neurology of Schizophrenia. Amsterdam: Elsevier, North Holland, pp. 1-48, 1986.
Leonard HL, Swedo SE, Rapoport JL, Rickler KC, Topol D, Lee S, Rettew D. Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder. Advances in Neurology, 58:83-94, 1992.
Stassen HH, Coppola R, Gottesman II, Torrey EF, Kuny S, Rickler KC, Hell D. EEG differences in monozygotic twins discordant and concordant for schizophrenia. Psychophysiology 36(1):109-17, 1999.
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PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED
Karitani M, Rickler KC, Swedo S, Beer D, Leonard HL. Obsessive Compulsive disorder and Tourette’s syndrome in children and adolescents, Textbook of Adolescent Psychiatry, Richard Rosner, Editor, Arnold Publishers, 2003.
Book Review, Psychiatry for Neurologists, Edited by Dilip V. Jester, MD and Joseph H. Friedman, MD, December, 2005, 88:12, page 445..
Ad hoc reviewer for Biological Psychiatry, 2006.
ABSTRACTS
Hovey JE, Rickler KC. Characteristics of aggressive patients in a neurological outpatient clinic. Aggressive Behavior, August, 1980.
Ehlers CL, Rickler KC, Hovey JE. Elevated plasma testoserone levels in a female outpatient population with aggressive behavior. Aggressive Behavior, August, 1980.
Torrey EF, Taylor E, Bowler A, Bracha S, Quinn PO, Bigelow L, Rickler KC, Higgins N, Wyatt RJ, Gottesman II. Evidence of early brain changes in a subgroup of twins with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 4:285, 1991.
Leonard HL, Hyde, TM, Rettew DC, Rickler KC, Carosella N, Weinberger, D. Cormorbidity in 28 child and adult Tourette syndrome twin pairs. Biol Psychiatry 33:43A, 1993.
Waltrip RW, Torrey EF, King LR, Weinberger DR, Rickler KC, Rubin SA, Carbone KM. Borna disease virus antibodies in a schizophrenic monozygotic twin study cohort. Amer Soc for Virology, 14th Annual Meeting, July 8, 1995.
Jenkins M, Hong J, Salloway S, Malloy P, Rickler K, Kohn R. Brown University School of Medicine. Improvement in attention with stimulant treatment in adults with ADHD. American Neuropsychiatric Association, submitted 1997.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES
Guest Lecturer Psychopharmacology Curriculum for Residents in Adult Psychiatry George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry 1986 – 1995
Teaching Attending Neurology Didactics for medical students and for residents George Washington Medical Center Department of Neurology 1980 – 1993
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UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES, CONTINUED
Teaching Attending Adult Psychiatry Residency Program St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington, D.C.
Neuropsychiatry Seminar Lecturer, PGY-III and PGY-IV Butler Hospital Providence, Rhode Island September 1995 to present
AWARDS
The Prattle Award, The Psychiatric Residents’ Award for Talented and Learned Educators, 1996-1997 Academic Year, Brown University
Brown Medical School Teaching Recognition Award, June 2002
PRESENTATIONS
1/10/96 Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Diagnosis, Course and Treatment Butler Hospital Professional Lecture Series in Psychiatry
1/17/96 Tic Disorders, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Bradley Hospital
1/24/96 Tourette’s Syndrome: A Model Neuropsychiatric Illness Neurology Grand Rounds
2/4/96 Medications, Working With Your Doctor, Tourette’s Syndrome Association, Rhode Island Chapter, Guest Speaker at Annual Meeting
2/21/96 Tourette’s Syndrome: Diagnosis, Spectrum and Associated Conditions and Treatment Butler Hospital Professional Lecture Series in Psychiatry
2/24/96 Tourette’s Syndrome Association Annual Meeting in Connecticut Guest Lecturer
2/29/96 Use of SSRI’S: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective Sponsored by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Guest Speaker
3/13/96 Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Aspects and Forensic Implications Butler Hospital Professional Lecture Series in Psychiatry
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PRESENTATIONS, CONTINUED
4/17/96 Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference and Journal Club, Butler Hospital
6/12/96 Diagnosis and Treatment of Aggressive Behavior in Childhood. Developmental Neuropsychiatry Seminar, Rhode Island Hospital
7/9/96 Neuropsychiatry Grand Rounds, Eleanor Slater Hospital
11/1/96 Panelist and Speaker, Tourette’s Syndrome Association National Conference Burbank, California
11/7/96 Poster Presentation, Case Report of First Presentation of Psychosis in an Adolescent with Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, First Annual Research Day, Brown University
11/20/96 Interface Between Behavioral Neurology and Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Bradley Hospital
12/4/96 First Presentation of Psychosis in an Adolescent with Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Case Presentation, Neurology Grand Rounds, Rhode Island Hospital
12/19/96 Communicating Hydrocephalus, Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference and Journal Club, Butler Hospital
2/8/97 Guest Lecturer, Annual Tourette’s Syndrome Association Meeting Butler Hospital
3/20/97 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Rehoboth School Department, Rehoboth, MA
4/23/97 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, Cranston School Department, Cranston, RI
4/26/97 Alternative Care, The Arts and Healthcare Symposium Rhode Island Hospital
5/8/97 Severe Developmental Disabilities, Public Lecture Butler Hospital
5/14/97 Tourette Syndrome, Guest Lecturer, Tourette Syndrome Association Butler Hospital
6/11/97 Pseudoseizures, Case Presentation, Tourette Syndrome Association Rhode Island Hospital
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PRESENTATIONS, CONTINUED
12/10/97 Cornelia De Lange Syndrome, Case Presentation, Grand Rounds, Rhode Island Hospital
1/23/98 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Guest Lecturer Rhode Island College
4/2/98 Psychiatry and Epilepsy, Butler Hospital Staff Association, Butler Hospital
4/30/98 B12 Deficiency, Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference and Journal Club, Butler Hospital
6/3/98 Wilson’s Disease, Case Presentation, Neurology Grand Rounds Rhode Island Hospital
10/16/98 Guest Lecturer, Tourette Syndrome Association, Atlanta, GA
11/7/98 Guest Lecturer, Tourette Syndrome Association, Providence College
11/12/98 Huntington’s Disease, Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference and Journal Club, Butler Hospital
2/10/99 Niemann-Pick Disease, Case Presentation, Neurology Grand Rounds, Rhode Island Hospital
4/8/99 New Drugs in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference and Journal Club, Butler Hospital
6/29/99 Psychiatry for the Neurologist, RI Hospital Lecture Series, Rhode Island Hospital
3/7/02 Gait Disorders in the Elderly, Geriatric Psychiatry Case Conference, Butler Hospital
12/19/02 When a Boy Hits His Mom, Integrated Clinical Case Conference, Butler Hospital
9/7/05 Living with Head Injury: Family and Legal Perspectives, The Michael Webb Memorial Program, Butler Hospital, Panelist
2/28/06 Guest Lecturer, Treatment Options Including Alternative Therapies, Tourette Syndrome Association
3/9/06 Meds for Aggressive Kids on the Children’s Intensive Treatment Unit, Child and Adolescent Services Program Lecture Series, Butler Hospital
6/22/06 44 Year Old Female with Lower Extremity Weakness of Unclear Etiology, Case Discussant, Integrated Clinical Case Conference, Butler Hospital