About Dr. Paul Bohn

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

1990

Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.

1997

Addiction Psychiatry, Subspecialty Certification.

2005

Forensic Psychiatry, Subspecialty Certification.

EDUCATION

1993 – 1995

Psy.D. (Doctor of Clinical Psychology), 1995: Institute for
Contemporary Psychoanalysis, LA, CA.

1988 – 1993

Candidate: Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute.

1988 – 1989

Fellow: University of Southern California Medical Center Anxiety
Disorders & Behavior Therapy Clinic.

1985 – 1988

Resident: UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

1980 – 1984

M.D., 1984: University of California, Irvine.

1975 – 1980

B.A. with High Honors, Pharmacology, 1980: UCSB.

1977 – 1977

Institute for Shipboard Education, Semester at Sea Program;
Intensive cross-cultural immersion.

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY POSITIONS/HONORS

2004

Clinical Professor: UCLA.

1989-2003

Assistant/Associate Clinical Professor: UCLA.

2003

Distinguished Fellow: American Psychiatric Association.

1993-1996

Founding Director: UCLA Social & Performance Anxiety Clinic.

1992-1996

Associate Director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic.

2001

President: Southern California Psychiatry Society.

2010

Reviewer: The American Journal of Psychiatry

2000

Advisory Board Member: International Paruresis Association

2001

Selectee: Best Doctors of America, Anxiety Disorders Category, Best Doctors, Inc.

2002

Selectee: Anxiety Disorders Category, Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists; Consumers Research Council of America

2001

Selectee: Super Doctors; Superdoctors.com

2002

Biographee: Marquis Who’s Who in America, 55th Edition

2010-2015

Editor: Newsletter of the Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Assn, UCLA

2007-2015

Board of Directors: Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Assn, UCLA.

1996

Faculty: Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

2013

Member: New Center for Psychoanalysis.

2018

Member: St John’s Hospital Alumni Association

1997 – 1999

Process Group Leader: UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Residency

1992 – 1995

Chairman: Santa Monica Rotary Polio Eradication Committee

1993 – 1997

Board of Directors: NCCJ (A Human Relations Organization)

1989

Member: Anxiety and Depression Association of America and
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation

1983

Flying Samaritans Member: a group of doctors and pilots who fly to isolated rural areas of Mexico to provide medical treatment.

RESEARCH

2003

Principal Investigator: Levetiracetam (N-type calcium channel
blocker) in the treatment of social phobia: UCB Pharma grant.

2000

Co-Investigator: Fluoxetine and Olanzapine in the treatment of
treatment-resistant depression: Lilly grant.

2000

Co-Investigator: Sigma opioid receptor agonist in the treatment of
depression: Otsuka grant.

1998

Principal Investigator: Substance P Antagonist in the
treatment of social phobia: Novartis grant.

1997

Co-Investigator: Lamotrigine in the treatment of bipolar
depression: Glaxo Wellcome grant.

1993

Principal Investigator: Brofaromine (Reversible MAO B Inhibitor)
in the treatment of social phobia. Ciba-Geigy grant.

1980

Lab Technician: Prepared and operated guinea pig atrium and
ileum live-tissue assays to screen compounds isolated from marine
organisms for potential pharmacologic activity.
Sea Grant Project.