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CURRICULUM VITAE
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LYLE H. ROSSITER, JR., M.D.
Saint Charles, IL
Tel: (630) 587-5710
Fax: (630) 587-5711
Email: drrossiter@sbcglobal.net
Medical Licensure and Registration
Physician and Surgeon, 1963, Illinois
D.E.A. Controlled Substance Registration
Professional Status
Diplomate in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1972.
Diplomate in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, 1984.
Private Practice, General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry.
Forensic Psychiatric Consultant to DuPage County Circuit Court, Public Defender and State's Attorney's Offices; Cook County Public Defender's Office; Office of the State Appellate Defender Supreme Court Unit, Kane County Child Advocacy Center; private attorneys in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, California, Alabama, and Washington, D.C.. Over 2500 cases in 36 years of Consultation, Evaluation, Reports, and Testimony in Civil and Criminal Matters.
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Clinical Expertise
Thirty-six years experience in assessment, diagnosis, psychodynamic formulation, developmental analysis, and individual psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatment of Axis I syndromes, personality disorders, and organic brain impairment. Twenty years experience in group therapy of symptomatic, relational and personality disorders. Integrated psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, self-psychological, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal modalities in the diagnosis and treatment of neurotic, characterological, and psychotic disorders. Comprehensive independent psychiatric evaluation and disposition of insured disability claims. Comprehensive assessment of occupational functional competence/disability.
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Forensic Expertise in Criminal Matters:
Fitness to Stand Trial: Defendant’s capacity to comprehend legal proceedings and cooperate with counsel; evaluation of effects of psychotropic medications and neuropsychiatric factors on fitness and courtroom presentation at trial and sentencing.
Criminal Competency: Mental state at time of offense for mental disease or defect impairing appreciation of wrongfulness/criminality of acts and/or capacity to conform conduct.
Mitigating and Aggravating Factors: Mental state at time of offense, provocation, mens rea, developmental trauma, relational factors, neuropsychiatric/medical disorders and brain injury factors.
Post Conviction Analysis: Scrutiny of civil rights violations; competency for Miranda warning; competency at arrest, detention, evaluation, trial, and sentencing; factors in mitigation/aggravation; medication and neuropsychiatric effects; relevance of prior evaluations.
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Forensic Expertise in Civil Matters:
Medical/Psychiatric Malpractice: Standard of care in provider-patient relationship, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and disposition; evaluation of injury and causation; consultation in deposition and cross-examination of opposing witnesses.
Personal Injury: Post-traumatic disorders in survivors of medical emergencies, physical injury, motor vehicle accidents, assaults, and closed head injury.
Competencies: Testamentary capacity, competency for self-care, management of personal affairs, contract, marriage, testimony, pro se court appearance, and parenting.
Civil Rights: Psychiatric damages alleged in ADA and sexual harassment claims in workplace/commercial/public environments, post-traumatic stress syndromes, functional disability, cognitive/emotional/occupational/interpersonal impairment assessment.
Child Custody and Visitation: Best interest of the child criteria, assessment of personality variables in caretaker fitness, other-state removal criteria, assessment of child development levels, attachment/relational variables.
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Education:
Elementary and high school education in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, 1943 to 1954.
Bachelor's Degree in Biology (with honors), June 1958, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
Doctor of Medicine Degree, University of Chicago School of Medicine, June 1962.
Medical-Surgical Internship, University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics, 1962-63.
Residency in Psychiatry, University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics, July 1963 through June 1966.
Associate Fellow, New York Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, 1980.
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Prior Professional Experience:
Captain, U.S. Army, Chief of Psychiatry, Department of Defense
(Top Secret Security Clearance), U.S. Army Hospital, Sandia Base, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, August 1966 through June 1968.
Associate Fellow and Training Supervisor, Institute of Rational
Emotive Therapy, New York, 1979-89.
Consultant, Family Service Association of DuPage County,
1980-82.
Consultant, Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services, Aurora, Illinois Region, 1981-1983.
Consultant, Public Defender and State Attorney Offices, Kane
County, Will County, Illinois.
Consultant/analyst on employee/staff morale, Central DuPage
Hospital: multiple individual and group interviews, conferences, written reports
to hospital administration, 1988.
Clinical Director/Advisor, Outpatient Psychiatric Services,
Central DuPage Hospital, November 1994 through February 1996.
Member, Central DuPage Hospital medical staff, Department of Psychiatry, 1981-2005.
Member, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 1984 – 2006.
Member, American College of Forensic Psychiatry, 2001-2006.
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Teaching Appointments
Loyola University, Department of Psychiatry, 1969 to 1971.
Madden Mental Health Center, Maywood, Illinois, 1969 to 1971.
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Publications
Award, Illinois Psychiatric Society for paper, "Psychoanalysis
and Learning Theory," June 1966.
"The Cause and Treatment of Depression, Part I," DCBA Brief,
DuPage County Bar Association, November 1991.
"The Cause and Treatment of Depression, Part II," DCBA Brief,
DuPage County Bar Association, November 1991.
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Lecture Presentations
Workshop, lecture, demonstration interviews on "Cognitive
Perspectives in the Treatment of Depression," presented at the Illinois
Psychological Association Meetings in Chicago, December 1981.
Lecture on "Courtroom Dangerousness," delivered to judges of
the Circuit Court of the 18th Judicial Circuit, DuPage County, Wheaton,
Illinois, February 1985.
Continuing Medical Education lecture on "Tardive Dyskinesia and
Malpractice," delivered to the Central DuPage Hospital medical staff at
Winfield, Illinois, September 18, 1985.
Lecture on "Concentration, Cognition and Affect in Coaching
Athletes," delivered at the Sports Performance and Rehabilitation Institute,
Carol Stream, Illinois, July 16, 1981.
Continuing Medical Education lecture on "Forensic Psychiatry,"
delivered to the medical staff at Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois,
February 6, 1985.
Forensic psychiatric forum consultant in "Understanding the
Insanity Plea or Defense," November 27 and December 4, 1983, at the invitation
of Judge Carl F.J. Henninger, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of DuPage County.
Simulated trial; lecture delivered on "History and Current Status of the Concept
of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity."
Videotaped lecture and demonstration delivered November 5 and
12, 1987, on "Modern Cognitive Psychotherapy Evaluation and Treatment
Techniques" to the Department of Psychiatry, Central DuPage nursing and
psychology inpatient staff, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois.
Day-long lecture, videotape and interview demonstration: "An
Introduction to Rational Emotive Therapy," presented to the Veteran's
Administration Medical Center Psychiatry Service staff at Knoxville, Iowa,
September 30, 1986.
Lectures, supervision, demonstrations on psychotherapy at the
Primary Certificate Practicum, New York Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy,
Chicago, October 23 to 27, 1981. Same as above, April 11 to 15, 1984.
Transcribed therapy session, Chapter 8 in Wessler &
Wessler, The Principles and Practice of Rational Emotive Therapy, Jossey-Bass
Publishers, San Francisco, 1980.
Lecture Series on Principles of Evaluation, Diagnosis and
Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders presented to the Behavioral Health Services
Staff, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois, 1994; Personality
Development and Psychodynamics; Psychopharmacotherapy; Relational Factors in
Psychotherapy; Psychiatry and Substance Abuse; Principles of Informed
Consent/Standard of Care.
Lecture on "Factors in the Assessment of Dangerousness,"
delivered to the MacNeal Hospital psychiatry staff at Berwyn, Illinois, October
18, 1995.
Lecture on "An Overview of Forensic Psychiatry" presented to the Central DuPage Hospital Medical Staff, May 10, 2002.
Lecture on "Suicide Risk Factors" presented to the Central DuPage Hospital Psychiatric Staff, March 3, 2004.
Lecture on "Suicide Risk Factors" presented to the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, April 2, 2004.
Lecture: “Adolescent Suicide Risk Factors” presented to the Central DuPage Hospital Psychiatric Staff, October 27, 2004.
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