Dr. Nicolson works on a geriatric med-psych unit at Beth Israel Hospital in Plymouth Massachusetts. He directs the Psychiatry Consultation Service and heads Addiction Psychiatry at the same hospital. At times, he teaches residents at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His primary clinical interests are related to neurological and cognitive examinations.

Dr. Rasimas has a Jesuit university background in biochemistry, mathematics, and philosophy. He completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at Penn State University, earning a Ph.D. in chemical biology (2002) and M.D. (2003). After Psychiatry residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he was a clinical fellow at the NIMH, training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Bioethics, and clinical research. Dr. Rasimas has studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. J.J. served as a C - L psychiatrist for Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and remains on faculty for the Penn State College of Medicine, there. He completed the critical care-based Medical Toxicology fellowship at Penn State, obtained board certification in Addiction Medicine, and then returned to NIMH to join the Undiagnosed Diseases Program and the Intramural Research Program to oversee clinical trials in mood and anxiety disorders. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology and the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Rasimas has a background in emergency psychiatry integrating multidisciplinary education into clinical work in toxicology and mental health. J.J. is now the Director of C – L Psychiatry and Co-Chair of the Biomedical Ethics Committee at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, pursuing an academic medical career at the interface of psychosomatic medicine, medical toxicology, bioethics, and psychoanalysis with a primary clinical interest in the phenomenology of suicide.

Dr. Maldonado is the Associate Division Chief of Adult Psychiatry for Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center. He is board certified in Adult Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, Forensic Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Forensic Medicine.
His research lab developed the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) a tool created to assess the psychosocial candidacy of organ transplant and ventricular assisted devices (VADs) candidates. In addition, his research has led the field of Psychosomatic Medicine with the development of tools for the prediction and assessment of various neuropsychiatric disorders; including the development of a new tool for the timely and accurate diagnosis of delirium: the Stanford Proxy Test of Delirium (S-PTD); the Stanford Algorithm for Predicting Delirium (SAPD), a tool to help predict patients at risk for developing delirium; and the Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS). He has developed management protocols and algorithms for the prevention and treatment of delirium; as well as novel pharmacological techniques (benzodiazepine-sparing protocol) for the prophylaxis and treatment of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndromes.
Dr Maldonado has been the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, the most recent includle: the 2017 – Franz-Köhler-Inflammation-Award from the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI) for extraordinary achievements in research on inflammation and its relationship to the pathophysiology of delirium; and the 2018 – Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award by the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the Academy’s highest honor, for distinctive achievements in CLP training, research, clinical practice, and leadership.

Dr. Markley is Board-Certified in General Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Addiction Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychiatric Association. She is the Medical Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Community Pediatrics Liaison at Akron Children's Hospital. She also practices pediatric medicine in the Adolescent Medicine Clinic at Akron Children’s. She has been a member of ACLP since 2010 and co-leads the Pediatric C/L SIG with Dr. Susan Turkel.

Dr. Markley is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Northeast Ohio Medical University. She graduated from the Triple Board Residency at the University of Utah Medical Center in 2009, then moved back to Ohio to practice. She recently achieved an additional Board Certification in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Markley’s interests are varied and include substance abuse (particularly the novel designer drugs of abuse), psychopharmacology of the medically ill, and collaborative care. Teaching is a passion of hers, and she is involved in teaching activities in several settings.

Scott Simpson, MD, MPH, is Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services at Denver Health Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is Co-Chair of ACLP’s Emergency Psychiatry SIG. As an emergency and C-L psychiatrist, Dr. Simpson has a national reputation for developing innovative clinical interventions, programming, and training curricula to improve the treatment of behavioral emergencies. These successes include developing Colorado’s first 24-7 buprenorphine induction program, pioneering an integrated care services based in the emergency department, and designing an original training rotation for US Army Behavioral Health Specialists in crisis psychiatry. Simpson has been recognized with local and national awards for teaching, scholarship, and program development.

Dr. Simpson received his bachelor's degree in history from Yale University, his Masters of Public Health from Harvard University, and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed psychiatry residency and a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is board-certified in adult psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and addiction medicine.