About the Book Author
Ronald M. Chase, M.D. graduated from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, having majored in philosophy and chemistry. He attended La Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy for didactic studies and the Università di Bologna, Italy, for clinical work in medicine. His post graduate studies continued at the University of Florida University Hospitals. He was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College.
During the Vietnam War he took a military residency in psychiatry at the National Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Consortium), and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C. for chronic mental illnesses. He had early exposure to the internationally acclaimed psychoanalyst, Harold F. Searles, M.D. who as mentor inspired Dr. Chase's entire career. As Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy he was later stationed at U.S. Naval Hospital, Orlando, Florida as Chief of Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Consultant to the U.S. Air Force, McCoy AFB, Orlando, Florida.
He became a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and did a fellowship in psychosomatics at the Chicago Medical School mentored by Hyman Garner, M.D. Chair, Department of Psychiatry. He was appointed to head the psychiatric liaison program for hemodialysis and oncology programs in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.
At Veterans Administration, VAMC, hospital he developed the first Vietnam Veterans Inpatient Unit for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and concluded PTSD is not a Disorder. he became a whistleblower regarding corruption and abuse of power at that facility.
Other Experiences
Other professional experiences included: Staff psychiatrist at the Department of Corrections at Rikers Island. Was a psychiatric consultant for the District Attorney in New York City and expert witness in capital offense cases for the Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York. He was recruited to serve as the first staff psychiatrist at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. Contributing forensic psychiatrist on O’Reilly’s “Inside Edition” in review of elements of the O.J. Simpson case.
His concern for the inordinate number of suicide deaths among soldiers returning from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted him to take a position with the U.S. Army as Psychiatrist Contractor at Winn Army Community Hospital, Third Infantry Division, Ft. Stewart, Georgia.
After forty years in the practice of psychiatry he returned to medicine and practiced as a Medical Consultant to the Department of Health.