James S. Ketchum, MD, Author
Education & Experience
© 2006/2007
J.S. Ketchum
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
Rotating Internship
Letterman Army Hospital Presidio
San Francisco, CA 1956-57
Psychiatric Staff
Woodview-Calabasas(and other hospitals)
San Fernando Valley 1979-1985
Private Practice of Psychiatry
Encino, Westlake Village, Woodland Hills
San Fernando Valley 1979-1995
Staff Psychiatrist and UCLA/USC student
mentor Olive View/UCLA Hospital
Sylmar, California 1986-1989
Private Practice of Psychiatry 1995-2006
Staff Psychiatrist
Rural Mental Health Clinics 1996-2000
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland
Chief, Clinical Research Division
1968-1971
Resident in Psychiatry
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington D.C.
1958-1960
Edgewood Arsenal Maryland
Research Psychiatrist
1961-1963 Branch Chief, Psychopharmacology
1963-1965 Acting Chief, Clinical
Research Division 1965-1966
Private Practice of Psychiatry
Author/Publisher
Santa Rosa, California 2006-present
Cornell University Medical College
New York, NY 1952-56 M.D.
Chief, Behavioral Science Division
Academy of Health Sciences
Fort Sam Houston, Texas 1971-1973
Chief, Dept. of Psychiatry
Martin Army Hospital
Fort Benning, Georgia 1973-1976
Retired 1976 - Legion of Merit
Chief, Substance Abuse Program
Brentwood VA Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
In-Residence, UCLA/NPI
Los Angeles, CA1976-1979
Medical Field Service School - Fort Sam Houston Texas Jul-Dec 1957
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
in NeuroPsychology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California 1966-1968
Forest Hills High School,
Queens, New York 1944-1948
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
1948-1951 and Columbia College
New York, NY 1951-1952