Dr. Joseph David Bloom M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239About
Dr. Joseph Bloom is a psychiatrist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Bloom is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Bloom diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Bloom may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Bloom treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1962
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Forensic Psychiatry- 1979
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Physician reporting of impaired drivers: a new trend in state law?
- Thirty-five years of working with civil commitment statutes.
- The use of the insanity defense as a jail diversion mechanism for mentally ill persons charged with misdemeanors.
- Subspecialization in psychiatry: third-generation programs.
- Cultural considerations in the criminal law: the sentencing process.
- A comparison study of career satisfaction and emotional states between primary care and speciality residents.
- Civil commitment is disappearing in Oregon.
- Commentary: authorship and training in forensic psychiatry.
- Oregon's Juvenile Psychiatric Security Review Board.
- The evolution of the american law institute test for insanity in Oregon: focus on diagnosis.
- Telepsychiatry with rural American Indians: issues in civil commitments.
- The majority of inpatient psychiatric beds should not be appropriated by the forensic system.
- Forensic psychiatry and the forensic sciences: in memory of Peter J. Batten, MD.
- "The incarceration revolution": the abandonment of the seriously mentally ill to our jails and prisons.
- Forensic psychiatry, statutory law, and administrative rules.
Fellowships
- Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Community Psychiatry 1968
- HARVARD MED SCH, BOSTON, MA 1968
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