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Expert Services - About Dr. Blum
Bennett Blum, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed physician specializing in both forensic
and geriatric psychiatry. An expert on the evaluation of undue influence and associated manipulation tactics,
Dr. Blum has consulted on hundreds of legal cases throughout the United States and internationally - including the precedent-setting
United Nations trial of General Pavle Strugar. This was the first full competency hearing at an International War
Crimes Tribunal since Nuremberg. Dr.
Blum has worked with major US Government agencies, law enforcement, and research institutes on the prevention, investigation,
and litigation of issues related to undue influence and coercion. In 1999, he was the only mental health expert asked
to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's hearing on Fraud: Targeting America's
Seniors. From 2002-2004,
Dr. Blum was a technical advisor to the Research Triangle Institute for its national study on elder financial exploitation.
This study was the basis for the Administration on Aging’s “Financial Exploitation of Older Persons Report.”
In 2005, Dr. Blum participated in an invitation-only policy development conference for the White House Conference on
Aging. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Arizona,
Dr. Blum received his medical education from the University of Arizona and psychiatric training at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a forensic psychiatric consultant to the litigation-consulting firm of Park Dietz & Associates,
Inc. (http://www.parkdietzassociates.com/). His work has been published by the National College of Probate Judges, State
Bar Associations, and in major medical textbooks - including a chapter on elder abuse, exploitation, and legal issues in geriatric
psychiatry in the eighth edition of Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. He
has also co-authored the internationally acknowledged seminal research on police-assisted suicide ("suicide by cop"),
worked as an advisor for several law enforcement training films, including "Predators of the Elderly," and taught
homicide investigators of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department.
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