Bennett Blum

Chaparral High School

Class of 1979

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Bennett Blum - Class of 1979 - Chaparral High School

First Name	Bennett
Last Name	Blum
Graduation Year	Class of 1979
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	AZ
Country	United States
Occupation	Physician, Rabbi
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Hanging out in the Math/Science Resource Center with all the other eccentrics (lit. those "outside the circle"). The people were bright, interesting, humorous, and friendly.
About Me	I am a physician specializing in both forensic and geriatric psychiatry, and am also a rabbi. As a physician, my expertise is the detection of psychological manipulation tactics used to exploit the elderly and other vulnerable adults. I created assessment techniques in that are taught throughout much of the Western Hemisphere, and have been privileged to consult on hundreds of legal cases throughout the United States, including the criminal trials of Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, and Theresa Ramirez; civil litigation case of O.J. Simpson; and litigation regarding Merrill-Lynch and the Orange County bankruptcy. Internationally, I testified in the precedent-setting United Nations trial of General Pavle Strugar - the first full competency hearing before an international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. I was deeply gratified when the Tribunal explicitly praised my work and that of my colleagues. Our combined effort help create new international law and the current standards for assessment of competency to stand trial in these settings. My work first received national attention when I was asked to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's 1999 hearing on Fraud: Targeting America's Seniors. From 2002-2004, I 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 Agings "Financial Exploitation of Older Persons Report." In 2005, I participated in a policy development conference for the White House Conference on Aging. I work with many organizations on the prevention, investigation, and litigation of issues related to elder abuse. My work became part of a nationwide 2006 training project entitled "Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response." In 2007, I worked with the National College of District Attorneys and National District Attorneys Association to review the mental capacity and undue influence sections of their course "Prosecuting Elder Abuse Cases." In 2009, the US State Department sponsored my visit to train the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the topics of diminished capacity, undue influence and psychological coercion evaluation in war crime litigation. From 2011-2013, I will be serving on the Board of Directors for the Nat...(read more)