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National Assessment Specialists, Inc.
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SPECIALIZING IN SUPERIOR MEDICAL LEGAL EVALUATIONS INVOLVING:
OUR DOCTORS
The psychiatrists that comprise the NAS team are Qualified Medical Examiners. The expert medical evaluations our associate doctors provide are supported by years of experience and training. The accompanying biographies on this page highlight each psychiatrist’s education, professional experience, achievements, interests and hobbies.
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Irina Addes, M.D.
A native of the Soviet Union, Irina Addes, M.D. immigrated to the United States thirty years ago. She joins NAS after years of practicing psychiatry in both New York and Los Angeles. Dr. Addes received her M.D. from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and completed her residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She served as Chief resident at North Central Bronx Hospital, where she oversaw the acute inpatient unit.
Dr. Addes is a Qualified Medical Examiner who has been in private practice in Torrance since 2008. She brings a holistic approach to her assessment of each patient, considering developmental, interpersonal, social, genetic, and medical history. She previously worked in a variety of capacities, including many years with the QTC where she provided psychiatric evaluations for veterans, many of who suffered from PTSD. She also has experience treating developmentally disabled and emotionally disturbed youngsters at St. Agatha Home at New York Foundling Hospital and working with children, adolescents and adults in community clinics, outpatient drug treatment programs and group homes.
Dr. Addes is fluent in Russian.
Laura Davies, M.D.
Offices: Fresno, Stockton, San Francisco
Laura Davies received her MD in 1997 from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. She completed her training in both General Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of San Francisco, where the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry awarded her the Ginsburg Fellowship.
Dr. Davies has been in private practice since 2002, where she specializes in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. Previously, she served as an Assistant Clinical Professor and practiced as a Child Psychiatrist at UCSF. She started her career at the Instituto Familiar de la Raza, where she held a position on the Psychiatric staff.
She is a Qualified Medical Examiner who, over the years, has also been active in several professional organizations, including as a Faculty Member of REACH (Recommendations for Employing Antipsychotics in Children and Adolescents) and as a Calmecac participant, a bicultural training program for mental health providers in the Latino community. Dr. Davies is also the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Henry F. Albronda Award upon the completion of her residency and the Irving Phillips Child Psychiatry Award.
She is fluent in Spanish.
Richard Greenberg, M.D.
Offices: Gardena, Hawthorne, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Torrance, Santa Monica
Richard Greenberg has been practicing psychiatry in Southern California for nearly 50 years and he is proud of that clinical experience. A native of Minnesota, Dr. Greenberg earned his MD in 1956 from the University of Minnesota, St. Paul/Minneapolis. Departing Minnesota for Southern California, Dr. Greenberg completed his internship in 1957 at San Bernardino County Hospital. He was a resident in psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles and completed an additional year of residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Dr. Greenberg has been in private practice in Southern California since 1962. He is a Qualified Medical Examiner, Board Eligible Psychiatrist. He also participates in several professional organizations, including South Bay Psychiatric Society, California Medical Association, and The Los Angeles County Medical Association.
In addition to his commitment to the private medical community, Dr. Greenberg served as a Captain in the United States Air Force Medical Corps, where he practiced at Parks AFB Hospital in California. Outside of his medical career, Dr. Greenberg has always made time for his other passion – singing. In his free time, you can find him harmonizing with a Barbershop chorus.
Rodrigo A. Munoz, M.D.
Rodrigo Munoz's Colombian heritage adds a new cultural dimension to NAS. Dr. Munoz received his MD in 1963 from the University of Cauca, in Popayan, Colombia and he completed an internship and residency in Psychiatry at University Hospital in Medellin.
Dr. Munoz currently divides his time between Hillcrest Counseling Center, where he serves as Chief of Psychiatry Services, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, where he is the Medical Director of the Day Treatment Program, and the University of California, San Diego, where he is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. When Dr. Munoz first arrived in California in 1970, he joined the staffs of several hospitals in the San Diego area, including Mercy Hospital & Medical Center and Scripps Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Munoz has published dozens of journal articles, and his work in psychiatry has been recognized numerous times over the years. He's the 1998 recipient of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Simon Boliver Award, as well as the 2003 Jeanne Spurlock Lecture and Award recipient from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Munoz has served on the Mexico Border Health Commission.
He has also been an active member of the medical community, having served as a Delegate for the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Clinical Physicians, and the California Psychiatric Association among others.
He is fluent in Spanish.
Steven Rudolph, D.O.
*Steven Rudolph joins the NAS team from San Diego. An osteopathic physician who is board certified in psychiatry with an emphasis in chemical dependency, Dr. Rudolph brings a unique perspective to his reports. Dr. Rudolph specializes in the assessment and treatment of complex cases of chronic pain, traumatic stress and substance abuse in the workplace.
He received his DO in 1992 from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and moved west to complete his internship in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Rudolph served as a Fellow in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program at the University of San Diego. He has been conducting medical legal exams for the workplace and other clients since 1997.
Dr. Rudolph is a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a member of the San Diego Psychiatric Society and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In his free time, Dr. Rudolph remains a competitive runner and tri-athlete.
*Dr. Rudolph does not do QMEs.
Irwin Savodnik, M.D.
Irwin Savodnik acts as the Medical Director as well as the Director of Education & Training at NAS. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, a member of the faculty at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles and a philosopher.
He earned his MD in 1972 from Upstate Medical Center at State University of New York in Syracuse. During this time, he was also pursuing his Ph.D. in philosophy, which he received with Honors in 1970 from New York University. Dr. Savodnik began his psychiatric training at the University of California Irvine's Orange County Medical Center, where he also started his Psychiatric Residency. He completed his residency in 1975 at Harvard University College of Medicine's Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1986, Dr. Savodnik earned his Ph.D. from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Savodnik began doing medical-legal evaluations in 1985 and launched NAS a few years later. Today NAS has 18 offices throughout California, employs 11 doctors and has completed thousands of reports.
But this was not the path Dr. Savodnik originally set off on. He began his medical career in the academy, serving as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of Medical Student Education at the University of Pittsburgh. He later opened a private practice in Torrance, CA. Throughout his career, Dr. Savodnik has remained committed to his passion for teaching, and he has taught and been on the faculty of many of the region's universities, including California State University of Fullerton.
He is married to Marlene Savodnik, Chief Operating Officer for NAS, has two children and two grandchildren. When he is not busy seeing patients, or teaching, Dr. Savodnik is a trained jazz pianist who can be heard performing around Los Angeles.
Dr. Savodnik leads the NAS team from his office at our Torrance headquarters; he is no longer conducting evaluations.
Barbara Strong, M.D.
Offices: Torrance, La Mirada, Palmdale, Riverside, Santa Ana
Barbara Strong brings an international component to NAS. She earned her MD in 1978 from La Salle University in Mexico City and is fluent in Spanish. She moved to Orange, California to pursue her professional training, completing her Internship in Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine at UCI Medical Center and her residency in psychiatry at USC’s Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Dr. Strong’s medical experience is extensive, spanning General Practice as well as Psychiatry. She has been both a Mental Health Psychiatrist at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, as well as a Staff Psychiatrist at the Pacific Clinic in West Covina for more than 10 years. Her career has included positions at numerous hospitals, mental health centers, as well as prisons around Southern California. She is Board Eligible in Psychiatry and a Qualified Medical Examiner.
In addition to her commitment as a physician, Dr. Strong is a devoted mother of ten.
Stephen Wilson, M.D.
Stephen Wilson came to psychiatry as a result of his work in the Peace Corps. A graduate of State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in 1965, Dr. Wilson completed his internship in 1966 at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, VA. He was a psychiatric resident from 1969-1972 at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and he completed a fellowship in Legal Psychiatry in 1973 at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Dr. Wilson has been in private practice in Westlake Village since 1973. Prior to this, he served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. He began his career as an instructor in the Department of Community Medicine at the State University of New York in Syracuse. For three years, Dr. Wilson was also a Clinical Assistant Professor at California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles.
When asked about his greatest professional accomplishment, Dr. Wilson says it was developing and implementing a polio immunization program, which helped protect nearly 80,000 children from the debilitating disease. He is a member of the Board of American Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as a Qualified Medical Examiner. He is also a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the Southern California Psychiatric Society, the Southern California Society for Adolescent Psychiatry and the Southern California American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
When he is not busy seeing patients Dr. Wilson is a dedicated reader, photographer and grandfather.
