Barry Bialek, MD is a board-certified family physician living in Boulder, Colorado. His practice includes both family medicine and emergency medicine. For the past 10 years, Dr. Bialek has served as the in-house medical consultant to one of the most successful plaintiff's personal injury law firms in the US. His job was to advise on every medical step of every medical malpractice case. This gives Dr. Bialek a unique perspective on medical malpractice and how best to avoid it.
Dr. Bialek has held clinical faculty positions with the departments of family medicine at both the University of Toronto (Canada) and the University of Arizona. Dr. Bialek is currently a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado, College of Engineering, where he teaches his other passion: sustainable community development in Nepal.
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Ava Diamond earned her Masters in Clinical Social Work from New York's Columbia University in 1991. Since then, Ms. Diamond dedicated herself to life improvement for others. Ms. Diamond has aided people, including many healthcare providers, to overcome the most challenging of psychiatric and social issues.
Ms. Diamond is the co-developer of two multifaceted therapeutic models. With her colleague in New York City, Jacqueline Cohen, MADT, and an Advisory Board consisting of faculty from the medical schools at Yale University and Columbia University, she has co-founded Relational Impact Medicine and Narration Generation. Ms. Diamond will be teaching Relational Impact Medicine as an elective course at Yale Medical School in 2010. With her expertise in alleviating and preventing symptoms of healthcare provider burnout, extensive substance abuse treatment experience, and understanding of the hospital systems, she brings a special sensitivity to physicians and nurses who are in need of support through her private practice.
She also currently serves as Clinical Supervisor for a Yale University and Dept of Children and Families collaborative project that provides intensive home-based therapy for chemically dependent parents with young children.
Ms. Diamond is based in New Canaan, CT and more information about her services may be obtained by visting her website www.avadiamondlcsw.com
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