Robert Pos M.D. | Canadian Psychiatrist and Research Scientist

Pos' Career

Academic:

present - 1992	Emeritus Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia;
1992 - 1983	Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia;
1982 - 1973	Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario;
1973 - 1968	Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1968 - 1967	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1967 - 1966	Associate, Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1966 - 1960	Clinical Teacher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1966 - 1962	Clinical Teacher, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto;

Clinical:

1991 - 1984	Psychiatric Consultant, Vancouver Pretrial Services Centre (B.C. Corrections);
1987 - 1986	Psychiatrist, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1986 - 1984	Director of Adult Clinical Services; Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1984 - 1983	Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Forensic Psychiatric Institute, Port Coquitlam, B.C; Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1983 - 1982	Psychiatrist, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1982 - 1981	Psychiatrist-in-Charge, Alcoholism Service, General & Marine Hospital, Owen Sound, Ontario;
1982 - 1978	Consultant, Mental Health Centre, Pentanguishene, Ontario;
1982 - 1976	Consultant, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto;
1981 - 1978	Director & Chief of Psychiatry, General & Marine Hospital, Owen Sound, Ont.;
1981 - 1975	Senior Psychiatrist, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1975 - 1968	Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1968 - 1967	Geographic Full Time Psychiatrist, Toronto General Hospital;, Toronto, Ontario;
1967 - 1965	Geographic Full Time Physician, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1965 - 1964	Psychiatric Consultant, Student Counseling Service, University of York, Toronto, Ontario;
1965 - 1962	Assistant Physician, Toronto General Hospital;, Toronto, Ontario;
1962 - 1958	Staff Psychiatrist, Ontario Hospital, Toronto, 999 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario;

Committee appointments:

Academic

1980 - 1976	Chairman, Editorial Board: A Method of Psychiatry (Undergraduate Textbook of Psychiatry), Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1976 - 1975	Editor-in-Chief, Undergraduate Psychiatric Textbook (Textbook for the Physician), Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1975 - 1968	Member, Psychiatric Planning & Coordinating Committee, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1970 - 1967	Director, Research Division, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto General Hospital;
1970 - 1965	Project leader, Informational Underload Theory of Psychotic Decompensation, Neurophysiological Research Laboratory, Banting Institute and 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto.
1967 - 1964	Chairman, General Hospitals Committee, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Toronto;

Clinical

1986 - 1983	Chairman, Medical Advisory Board, Adult Clinical Service, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1986 - 1984	Chairman, Research Committee, Adult Clinical Service, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1982	Chairman, Task Force on Reorganization, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia;
1981 - 1980	Member of Executive Committee, General & Marine Hospital, Owen Sound, Ontario;
1975 - 1968	Member, Medical Advisory Board, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1975 - 1972	Member, Executive Committee, Medical Advisory Board, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1975 - 1973	Member, Budget Committee, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;
1974 - 1973	Chairman, Interdisciplinary Task Force on Behavioral Sciences and Allied Groups, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario;

Other

1989 - 1988	Member, Task Force on Election Procedures, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law;
1989 - 1986	Member, By-Laws Committee, American Acedemy of Psychiatry and the Law;
1989 - 1986	Member, Public Affairs Committee, American Acedemy of Psychiatry and the Law;
1986 - 1984	Member, International Affairs Committee, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law;
1977 - 1974	Member of Council, the Toronto Medico-Legal Society;
1973 - 1968	Member, Board of Direction, Toronto Institute for Pastoral Training (Toronto School of Theology);
1972 - 1969	Director, American Society of Cybernetics;
1970 - 1968	Member, Toronto Psycho-analytic Forum for the Humanities;

Court experience:

1975 - 1990

Qualified as an expert witness in the Supreme Courts of British Columbia, New Foundland, and Ontario, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, Provincial and County Courts in British Columbia, providing expert opinion in 16 Dangerous Offenders hearings, 11 Insanity Defenses, 5 Automatism Defenses, 16 other psychiatric defenses in well-known criminal cases, and numerous hearings involving remands and fitness to stand trial and, furthermore, being the nominee or consultant under the School Act of British Columbia in 6 school districts and for the Ministry of Education of British Columbia

Honours:

2003	Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association;
1996	Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association;
1987	F.A.C.F.P.(Fellow of the American College of Forensic Psychiatry);
1976 - 1975	Sabbatical year, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
1975	F.A.P.A. (Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association);
1971	F.I.C.P.M. (Fellow of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine);
1970	Member, the New York Academy of Sciences;
1966	Visiting Scientist, the Psychiatric Research Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medicine, Moscow, U.S.S.R.;
1965	National Research Award 1964, the Canadian Mental Health Association (awarded by Dean J. McCreary, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia);
1962	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Memberships of professional associations:

Retired Life Member of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia;
Emeritus Member of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario ;
Life Fellow, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada;
Life Member, Canadian Psychiatric Association;
Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association;
Senior Member, Society of Specialist Physicians & Surgeons of British Columbia ;
Life Member, Canadian Medical Protective Association.
Member, Canadian Medical Association;
Member, Ontario Medical Association ;
Member, International Society for the Study of Time;
Member, the Julian Jaynes Society.