James Hamilton, PhD
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Associate Professor Adjunct
Biography
Dr. James Hamilton is Associate Professor Adjunct in the General Pediatrics section of the Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine. He is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Clinical Health Psychology area of the Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, where he taught and conducted research for 28 years until he retired in 2022. He received a BA in Psychology at Clark University, and an MA and PhD in clinical and social psychology at Case Western Reserve University. His research and training interests center on medical deception, fabricated medical problems, and, in particular, medical child abuse (popularly known as Münchausen syndrome by proxy). He maintains a small consultancy though which he participates in legal matters related to medical child abuse, factitious disorder, and other matters related to medical deception.
Appointments
General Pediatrics
Associate Professor AdjunctPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- PhD
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Psychology / Clinical and Social Psychology (1986)
- Pre-Doctoral Inter
- Medical College of Pennsylvania (1986)
- MA
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Psychology / Clinical Psychology (1983)
- BA
- Clark University, Department of Psychology (1981)
Board Certifications
Clinical Psychology
- Certification Organization
- State of Connecticut
- Latest Certification Date
- 2024
- Original Certification Date
- 2023
Research
Overview
Survey research using collateral sources to study the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of medical child abuse cases.
AI and latent group analyses to identify medical child abuse cases in large pediatric databases and electronic medical records.
Research on the psychometric development of a system for scoring medical records for indicators of medical child abuse.