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Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., will discuss “Competency: Criminal, Civil, and Professional” at the 2006 Albert M. Biele, M.D., Memorial Lecture in Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Sadoff is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director at the Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry, and Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

The 28th annual Biele Lecture will be held Wednesday, April 26, at 11 a.m. in the DePalma Auditorium of Jefferson’s Foerderer Pavilion Building, 1020 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

Dr. Sadoff received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota in 1959 and completed his residency in Psychiatry at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, from which he also received a Master of Science degree in Psychiatry in 1963. He is board certified in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, legal medicine and has added qualifications in forensic psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Sadoff is the author of more than 90 articles in medical and legal journals and of more than 30 book chapters. He has authored, co-authored or edited seven books, including Forensic Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Malpractice: Cases and Comments for Clinicians.

Dr. Sadoff has examined more than 8,000 individuals charged with crimes during the past 40 years and has testified for both prosecution and defense in criminal cases in about 20 states and several federal jurisdictions. He has served as a consultant to Norristown State Hospital, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Harrisburg State Hospital, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital of New Jersey and the Philadelphia Prison System.

Dr. Sadoff is licensed in five states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, California and Minnesota. He has lectured in nearly every state in the United States and in 12 countries around the world.

The Biele lectureship was created in 1979 to honor Dr. Albert M. Biele, an outstanding Jefferson physician, scholar and psychiatry professor and friend to many at Jefferson. The lecture was endowed by the Biele family and members of the Jefferson Medical College Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.

The Biele Lecture committee is chaired by Karl Doghramji, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Thomas Jefferson University, and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

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