Dr Charles Parker

Neuroscience Consultant, Practicing Child, Adolescent, Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist, Psychopharmacologist, ADD/ADHD Consultant, SPECT Imaging Consultant/Training, Systems/Functional Medicine, Brain Injury Assessment and Treatment, Addictions Medicine Consultant

New scientific evidence changes psychiatric care.

For years many considered psychiatry a belief system filled with dreams, abstractions, and little reality. Even today, many assert that ADD is a character problem, and SPECT brain imaging is modern snake oil.

But let’s go beyond “belief systems.” New evidence, facts do count. Psychiatry has evolved to include the latest neuroscience. Everyday practice has moved from fantasies and dreams - to include reality.

New questions with new answers increasingly drive treatment interventions. Brain and body "biologic systems" can be measured for their function and specifically treated based upon solid molecular and cellular evidence.

Traditional interventions remain valid. Advances in biotechnology and neuroscience offer more comprehensive treatment strategies.

The Bio:
Dr Charles Parker, Medical Director of CorePsych, provides both personal consultation and professional training to address the multiplicity of challenges present in psychiatry today.

With the abundant changes in the technology of information delivery he is available for time saving virtual consultation and presentations anywhere.

Training
- Westminster College, Fulton, MO, BS: Biology, Minor: English
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Phila, PA
- Adult Psychiatry: Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Hahnemann Med Center, Phila., PA [Chief Resident]
- Adult Psychoanalysis: Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis
- Board Certified Adult Psych, Forensic Psych
- Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Board Certified Addiction Medicine - for 10 years
- Family and Interpersonal Mediation: Old Dominion University
- Coaching: Mentor Coach: International Coach Federation Accredited
- Licensed: Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Management of Radioisotopes - for use in Nuclear Medicine – 2003

Experience
- Visiting Professor, Psych Dept., Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA - Current
- Active outpatient practice since early 70’s, Partner in Parker, Schlichter and Assoc. in Va Beach, VA
- Hospital programs: Management and Program Development from ~’78 to ~’92 including Executive Medical Director of Peninsula Hospital, Hampton, VA
- Management Consultant: Media Buying Firms in Montauk, NY, and Times Square, NYC, Precast Concrete Manufacturers in Richmond, VA, and Auto Sales/Managment in Va Beach.
- Guest Creativity Consultant: With Edward de Bono at Electronic Data Systems in Dallas [see the post].
- Program Development: Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Providers, from Sun Valley ID, to Lafayette LA.
- Lectured: Psychopharmacology nationally for > 12 years to hundreds of medical colleagues with special interests in antidepressants and diagnosis and treatment for ADD: NYC, to Boston, LA, and Seattle
- Developed and managed as Chief Psychiatrist: Amen Clinic in Reston, VA near Washington, DC: SPECT brain imaging in clinical practice, started in '03.
- Active SPECT Image Evaluation Practice: reviewing, managing, the process, and teaching the use of brain imaging, thousands of scan review hours
- Neuroscience Consultant: Spero Retreat, Beverly Hills, CA; Patrick Carnes, PhD IITAP & Gentle Path; LifeBridge Diagnostics, SPECT Imaging, Melbourne, FL.
- Teleconference coaching and teleseminar presentations from '98 with clients from Japan, Iceland, Ecuador, Israel, England, Scotland and Alaska
- Society for Nuclear Medicine,
- American Medical Association,
- Institute for Functional Medicine

On a personal note:
- Eagle Scout, and God and Country Awards
- Bailed hay and caught chickens in Indiana. It was great fun. [See the post on agrarian guilt.]
- Picked cotton [3 seasons] and shoveled concrete on the roads [3 yrs] in Missouri. Never again. The roads will teach you chain-gang teamwork.
- Organic gardener and beekeeper for years. Lessons: With Bees - Stay natural, remain calm with a big buzz, - and regarding Worm Composting: Meaningless scraps can heal the garden.
- Attended Culver Military Academy, ‘60G. Trumpet in the Band [wrong specialty], wonderful team, still in contact.
- Sold furnace cleanings door to door in metro West Philadelphia. Going into those homes and meeting the families: Unforgettable.
- Read my poetry in Philadelphia clubs with friend Ashley Angert playing classical guitar: it was a very different time.
- Black Belt: Shotokan Karate, Dr Hamada, Hanshi - International Chairperson of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, Japan [Oldest Japanese Martial Arts Society]. Got hit a few times.
- Outdoor writer, salt water fly fisherman, spey fishing enthusiast. It's like dancing in the woods

Quite a tour, from Missouri farms to metro psychoanalysis, SPECT imaging and molecular and cellular physiology. In almost 40 years, we have evolved from questions about sexual fantasies to very specific interest in bowel movements, PMS, and exposure to mold!

- From a start with mind - back to include body, with little left behind. Most interesting: how the biological body facts do fit with the mind work and the clinical stories.

Tune in.