CURRICULUM VITAE
Celestine DeTrana, M.D.
Education:
1977-1980 University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Degree: B.A. Cinema Studies
1983-1984 College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Premedical courses
1984-1986 Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
1986-1988 University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Degree: M.D.
1988-1989 General Medical-Transitional Internship
St. Vincent Hospital and Health Services
Indianapolis, Indiana
Graduate of Residency Program
1989-1992 Psychiatry Residency
Indiana University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Indianapolis, Indiana
Graduate of Residency Program
1999 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Forensic Psychiatry Review Course
New Orleans, Louisiana
Academic Appointments:
1992-1996 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994-1996 Co-Director
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Indiana University School of Medicine
1996-1998 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
1998-present Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
Hospital Appointments:
1992-1996 Director, Geriatric Psychiatry
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
1992-1996 Attending Physician
Midtown Community Mental Health Center and
Wishard Memorial Hospital
Indianapolis, Indiana
1992-1996 Attending Physician
Indiana University Hospital and Outpatient Clinics
Indianapolis, Indiana
1996-2005 Associate Staff Physician
Saint Vincent Hospital and Health Services
Indianapolis, Indiana
Other Appointments and Professional Consultantships:
1995 – present Expert Witness in legal cases regarding criminal responsibility,
malpractice, disability, various competencies, psychic harm, etc.
1996 - 2001 Consultant, Geriatric Psychiatry
St. Augustine Home for the Aged
Indianapolis, Indiana
1997-1998 Associate Medical Director
Universal Behavioral Services
Community Mental Health Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
1997- present Independent Medical Examiner
1997-present Consultant to businesses on psychiatric issues in the workplace
i.e. potential for workplace violence, capacity to perform job,
recommendations, adaptations, etc.
1999 - present Expert Witness for the Social Security Administration. Consultant to judges in
Appellate Court hearings regarding medical and psychiatric disability.
Involved in up to six cases per month prior to 2002. At this time participation
occurs only on as time allows.
Licensure and Certification:
1992-present Indiana, Number 0104-0560
Specialty Board Status:
1993 Lifetime Diplomate, Psychiatry
Certificate Number 38091
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1995 Diplomate
Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry
Certificate Number 1341
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1999 Diplomate, Forensic Psychiatry
Certificate Number 937
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Professional Organizations:
1989 - present American Psychiatric Association
1989 - present Indiana Psychiatric Society
1989-1993 American Medical Association
1989-1993 Indiana State Medical Association
1992-1998 Association of Women Psychiatrists
1997 - present American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Honors and Awards:
1996-1997 Teaching Achievement Award
Indiana University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
2004 Nominated to become a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
2005 Elected as Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
"In recognition of significant contributions to Psychiatry
Teaching Assignments:
1992 - 1994 Supervisor and teacher of third year medical students
in their clinical psychiatry training.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1992 - 1996 Supervisor and teacher of outpatient psychiatry to psychiatry
residents on their outpatient rotation.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1992 - 1996 Supervisor and teacher of geriatric psychiatry to psychiatry residents
on their geriatric psychiatry rotation.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1993 - 1998 Director of the Clinical Syndromes Course, a year long course for psychiatry
residents. Course taught the etiology, epidemiology, clinical signs, symptoms,
course of illness and treatments of the psychiatric disorders.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994 - 1996 Lecturer on sub-topics in geriatric psychiatry, for the geriatric psychiatry faculty.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994 - 1996 Organized and supervised the Geriatric Psychiatry Journal Club, Indiana University School of Medicine
Spring 1995 Teacher of s psychiatry course for second year medical students. Indiana University School of Medicine
Spring 1995 Lecture on the Cholinergic Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Dementia
Indiana University School of Medicine
May 1997 Lecture: "Senescence as a Phase of Life"
Indiana University School of Medicine
1998 - present Administrating pre-Boards exams for psychiatry residents preparing for the second
phase of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology exams. "Mock Boards"
Indiana University School of Medicine
1999 - present Ongoing teaching & supervision of psychiatry residents in interviewing and diagnosing
patients, pharmacotherapy, psychodynamic interpretation and psychotherapy process
and technique.
Indiana University School of Medicine
SERVICE:
To Discipline:
1990 Deputy Resident Representative
Indiana Psychiatric Society
1990-1992 Resident Representative
Indiana Psychiatric Society
To Patients:
1988 - 1992 Resident Physician in Psychiatry
Indiana University Medical Center
1992 - 1993 Staff physician, outpatient psychiatry
Richard L. Roudebush Veteran’s Administration Medical Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1993 - 1996 Director of Geriatric Psychiatry
Richard L. Roudebush Veteran’s Administration Medical Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1996 - present General Adult, Forensic and Geriatric Psychiatrist Private Practice,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1997 -1998 Associate Medical Director Universal Behavioral Services
Community Mental Health Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
To Administration:
1993 - 1996 Created and developed the Geriatric Psychiatry
Department for the Richard L. Roudebush Veteran’s Administration Medical Center,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1993 – 1995 Committee to Select the Recipient of the Arthur Richter Medical Student Award of Excellence in Psychiatry,
Indiana University School of Medicine
1995 - 1997 Chairman of the Committee to Select the Recipient of the Arthur Richter Medical Student Award of Excellence in Psychiatry,
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994 - 1996 Medical Student Education Committee
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994 - 1999 Continuing Medical Education Committee
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
1997 – 2002 Peer Review and Ethics Committee
Saint Vincent Hospital and Health Services
Indianapolis, Indiana
Professional Activities:
1984 – 1987 Researcher, immunology Department,
Medical University of South Carolina
Authored “Antibodies Reactive with Human Melanoma Cell Antigens in Alopecia Areata,”
by DeTrana, Kulze, Tsang and Galbraith.
1993-1996 Co-Investigator:
“An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Different Psychotherapies for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994-1996 Co-Investigator:
Olfaction in Alzheimer’s Disease --
Relationship to Cerebral Blood Flow.
Indiana University School of Medicine
1994-1996 Co-Investigator:
Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Indiana University
Fall 1996 Lectures on “Depression in the Elderly”
For non-psychiatric physicians
for Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company
Grants and Fellowships:
1994 Co-principal Investigator:
Velnacrine/Mentane Drug Study for Alzheimer’s
Dementia, Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Publications:
1985 Becker HC, Anton RF, DeTrana CM and Randall CL.
“Sensitivity to Ethanol in Female Mice: Effects of Ovariectomy and Strain,”
Life Sciences, Volume 37,
Issue 14: 1293-1300, October 7, 1985.
1990 DeTrana, C, Hurwitz, RM. Painful Purpura: an
Adverse Effect to a Thrombolysin, Archives of
Dermatology. 126 (5): 690-91, 1990 May.
1990 Hurwitz, RM, DeTrana, C. The Cutaneous
Pathology of Atopic Dermatitis. American Journal of
Dermatopathology. 12 (6): 544-51, 1990, December.