Full Text of HR1227 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to thank Ryan Finkenbine, M.D. for his | 4 | | service to the Illinois Psychiatric Society; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine is currently the Chair and | 6 | | Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Department of | 7 | | Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of | 8 | | Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine is the President-elect of the | 10 | | Illinois Psychiatric Society and has been a leader in | 11 | | advocating for Peoria-area psychiatric and mental illness | 12 | | patients; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine oversees the Department of | 14 | | Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine's growth and development in | 15 | | its goal to provide excellent clinical care, education, and | 16 | | research at UIC College of Medicine in Peoria; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, In addition to his administrative | 18 | | responsibilities, Dr. Finkenbine maintains an active forensic | 19 | | practice; over the past decade, he has conducted or coordinated | 20 | | hundreds of criminal and civil forensic evaluations; all types | 21 | | of legal cases requiring expert psychiatric testimony are |
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| 1 | | comprehensively assessed to provide accurate, credible | 2 | | opinions to referring parties; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine is a graduate of Wittenberg | 4 | | University and the Indiana University School of Medicine; he | 5 | | completed his internship and residency in psychiatry at the | 6 | | Medical University of South Carolina and then received advanced | 7 | | training in forensic psychiatry at the University of South | 8 | | Carolina School of Medicine; after holding positions at | 9 | | hospitals in Alaska and South Carolina, he took an academic | 10 | | position at West Virginia University in Morgantown, where, as | 11 | | Director of the general psychiatry residency training program, | 12 | | he was honored as a five-time recipient of the Best Faculty | 13 | | Teacher award by his residents; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine was also the Director of an | 15 | | ACGME-accredited Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship that he | 16 | | started in 1999; he was nationally recognized as the Best | 17 | | Teacher in Forensic Psychiatry by the American Academy of | 18 | | Psychiatry and the Law for his innovative and successful | 19 | | educational programs; as a leader in the area of forensic | 20 | | psychiatry, he has been invited to present at dozens of CME and | 21 | | CLE approved activities, including as a Distinguished Visiting | 22 | | Professor; he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the West Virginia | 23 | | College of Law and served on the West Virginia Governor's | 24 | | Sexually Violent Predator Task force and on the State |
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| 1 | | Comprehensive Behavior Health Commission Work Group; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Finkenbine is a member of the American | 3 | | Psychiatric Association; he is licensed in Illinois and is | 4 | | Board Certified in general and forensic psychiatry; therefore, | 5 | | be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 8 | | thank Ryan Finkenbine, M.D. for his service to the Illinois | 9 | | Psychiatric Society and we congratulate him on being selected | 10 | | as the new President; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to Dr. Finkenbine as an expression of our esteem and | 13 | | respect.
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