Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney & Founding Partner Dorothy Clay Sims.

Dorothy Clay Sims is founding partner of her own law firm Sims, Amat, Stakenborg, & Henry in Ocala, Florida and was the first woman chair of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Florida bar in 22 years. She was president of the Marion County Bar Association; co-founder/past president, Florida Worker's Advocates; CEO, Florida Academy of Impairment Rating, Inc.; and co-founder, International Forensic Medical Association.

Sims has carved a significant niche deposing defense doctor witnesses in brain injury, malingering, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) cases that lead to favorable trial outcomes and frequent awards to plaintiffs nationwide. Sims is CEO of MD in a Box, an online business she founded in 2005 to provide other lawyers real-time access to fully trained medical doctors during deposition or trial while they cross-examine the opposing doctor.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Maia Szalavitz.

Ms. Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science, and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert, Bruce D. Perry, MD. PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic 2007).

She is also the author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead 2006) and co-author, with Dr. Joseph Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, of Recovery Options: The Guide You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).

She is a Senior Fellow at Stats.org, a media watchdog organization, which investigates coverage of science and statistics.

She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Newsday, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, Salon, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other major publications. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, MSNBC's News with Brian Williams, and NPR.

Maia Szalavitz has also worked in television--first as Associate Producer and then Segment Producer for PBS' Charlie Rose, then on several documentaries including a Barbara Walters' AID special for ABC and as Series Researcher and Associate Producer for the PBS documentary series, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, "The Insider", interviews Stephen A. Karp, MSW.

Stephen A. Karp, MSW is the Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, CT Chapter, a position he held from 1989 –1999, and again since August 2001.

Mr. Steve Karp obtained his MSW in 1983 from Fordham University  with a concentration in community organization. Mr. Karp has a long history of involvement with NASW, first as a volunteer , then as the Political Director for the New York State Chapter. He served the CT Chapter and was later the Director of Chapter Services and Continuing Education at the national office of NASW from 1999-2001.

Prior to working for NASW Steve spent over ten years in the fields of aging and developmental disabilities, where he did a combination of direct service and administration. He has been an adjunct professor of social work, teaching at several colleges and universities and on the advisory board for the Institute for the Advancement of the Practice of Political Social Work at the UCONN School of Social Work and the Office of Managed Care Ombudsman.