Donal F. Sweeney MD FACP, FCCP, FASAM

EDUCATION
B.A. Providence Coll.- magna cum laude M.D. New York Medical College - rank 3rd / class of 128

INTERNSHIP
Wilford Hall USAF Hospital, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX 1958 - 1959

RESIDENCY
Wilford Hall USAF Hospital, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease. 1959 - 1962

SPECIALTY
Amer. Board Internal Medicine - 1965

CERTIFICATION
Amer. Board Internal Medicine; Subspecialty - Pulmonary Disease - 1970; Certified - Addiction Medicine - 1986

PROFESSIONAL
Fellow - American College Physicians

ORGANIZATIONS
Fellow - American College Chest Physicians Fellow - American Soc. Addiction Medicine

PRACTICE
David Grant USAF Hosp. Travis 1962 - 1966; Santa Barbara Med. Clinic 1967 - 1979; Private Practice 1979 - 0ct. 1, 1990; Director, Occupational Health Service and Employee Assistance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory \ Cal Tech - Oct.1990 - Nov. 2000; Private Consulting - Santa Barbara Nov. 2000-04
Active Int. Med. Staff - Cottage Hosp.- 07/1/06

MEDICAL
Respiratory Care - SB Cottage Hosp. 1967-1989

DIRECTOR
Schick-Shadel Alcohol Hosp. 1986 - 1987 Jet Propulsion Lab Occup. Health 1990 -2000

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
President - SB Chapter Cal. Soc. Int. Med.
Amer. Col. Chest Phy. - Respiratory Care Sec.
SB County Med. Soc. - Physician's Aid - Chair
Member - Medical - Legal Committee.
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: Chair of the Utilization (insurance) Review & Impaired
Physician's Aid Committees
Member - Quality Ass., Respiratory Care

ACTIVITIES
Colonel, USAFR (MC) - Assigned HQ/USAF Surgeon General's Office - Quality Ass. & Case Review; Veteran - Active duty - Viet Nam and Desert Storm; Retired, 2-93 Active Staff - Cottage 2000 - 07/1/06 Consult Staff - Huntington, Pasadena-1990-2000; Sponsor - California - Qualified Medical

LECTURER
Adult Educ. - Univ. Cal. Santa Barbara
USAF - Quality Ass. Yearly Course JPL - Medical & EAP Topics George Fox University, Western Theological Seminary-On Call

ADMINISTRATIVE
1969 - 1975 Secretary, Vice Chief & Chief of Staff - SB County Hospital 1969 - 1985 Respiratory Therapy Director, Cottage Hospital 1974 - 1979 Chairman, Dept. Int. Med.& Member Board of Directors, S.B. Medical Clinic

CONSULTANT
Board Med. Quality Assurance (BMQA), for the CA Impaired Physician Program
Physician Adv. - Cal. Med. Review Inc.
Reviewer - Position Paper - ACP
Reviewer - Med. Review Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; USAF Medical reviewer
Qualified Med. Examiner for: Int. Medicine, Chest & Addiction Disease, California, Nov. 1991 - present
Reviewer-Expert Med. Reviewer for the
Medical Board of California;1995-present

ALCOHOL ARTICLES
1. 1982 - "Impaired Physician" - Medical Economics
2. 1985 - "Questions You Always Wanted to Ask About AA" May, Postgraduate Medicine
3. 1986 - Letter,” On Alcoholism" Oct., AMA News
4. 1987 - "Reflections; Sobriety and Time" May - June, Journal of General Internal Medicine; Reprinted The Addiction Letter Vol.3, #6, June 1987
5. 1989 - "Alcohol & Mnenosyne: Blackouts" Sept. 1989, Vol.6, #3, pp.159-162; Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
6. 1990 - "Blackouts; Legal Implications" Sept. 1990, Vol.7, #3, pp.155-159; Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
7. 1990 - "Alcohol and Memory, Legal Ramifications" presented at the annual meeting - American Academy Forensic Science, Feb. 22,1990
8. 2004 Book - The Alcohol Blackout - Published March 2004
9. March 2004 - Blackout Talk - American Academy Forensic Science, Annual Meeting, Dallas
10. March 2005 - Lecutre - Psychiatric Grand Rounds, Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara

Robert A. Liston
Robert A. Liston, a former newspaperman and magazine journalist, is the author of 50 non-fiction books. Among these is THE WAYSIDERS: A New Approach to Reading and the Dyslexic Child, written with R.M.N. Crosby, M.D. It was the first book to call attention to dyslexia as a reading disorder. It was published twice in the U.S. and in the U.K. Reviewers lauded it for discussing a complex subject in lucid terms. Some called it a new approach to scientific writing.

Liston also collaborated on THE PILL: Facts and Fallacies about Today's Contraceptives by Robert W. Kistner, M.D. The intricacies of female endocrine and reproductive systems were explained in easily understood terms.

Liston is the sole author of two books on psychology, When Reason Fails and Healing the Mind. Among his 25 published novels, 11 are on medical themes. Liston lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Jean.

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