Philip Candilis, MD, DFAPA, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Candilis is a fellowship-trained forensic
psychiatrist and medical ethicist with interests in informed consent, capacity
assessment, and professional ethics. He teaches, writes, and conducts empirical research
in medical decision-making and research ethics, and consults to agencies like the Board
of Registration in Medicine and Physician Health Services, Inc. (the agency assessing and
monitoring Massachusetts physicians with health concerns). Dr. Candilis is a
board-certified clinician who trained at Mass. General and the Harvard Ethics Program and
has practiced throughout the UMass inpatient, outpatient, and emergency health systems.

Articles

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Capacity to make medical treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis: a potentially remediable deficit (with Michael R. Basso, Jay Johnson, Courtney Ghormley, Dennis R. Combs, and Taeh Ward), Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology (2010)
 

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Institutional Review Boards: What Do They Do? How Do They Protect Subjects? (with Christopher Jackson, Suzanne Garverich, Lauren A. Gellar, Charles W. Lidz, and Teresa Roach), Psychiatry Issue Briefs (2008)
 

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A direct comparison of research decision-making capacity: schizophrenia/schizoaffective, medically ill, and non-ill subjects (with Kenneth E. Fletcher, Cynthia M. A. Geppert, Charles W. Lidz, and Paul S. Appelbaum), Schizophrenia research (2008)
 

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Professional development in forensic psychiatry: the role of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (with Joseph B. Layde), Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2007)
 

Books

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Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness (with Robert Weinstock and Richard Martinez), Center for Mental Health Services Research (2007)
 

Contributions to Books

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Advances in Informed Consent Research (with Charles W. Lidz), The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice (2009)