Meeting/Event Information

Forensic Psychology with Stacey Wood

Dr. Stacey Wood, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychology
Scripps College

(909) 706-2764
[email protected]
 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/stacey-wood.php

 WHO: Dr. Wood is an Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology at Scripps College, in Claremont. She received her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College, her Ph.D. from the University of Houston in Neuropsychology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuro-psychology at UCLA. Dr. Wood worked as a neuropsychologist and an expert witness on over 200 cases  and testified around 30 times in federal, criminal, civil, probate, and arbitration courts.  She is the Director of the Neuropsychology of Decision-Making laboratory at Scripps College and has published dozens of papers related to her work on the neuropsychology of decision-making across the lifespan.  Her research has been funded by NIH, NSF, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Borchard Foundation for Law and Aging.

TOPIC: She will present on the psychology of fraud, both from the victim's per-spective as well as the perpetrator's. She will discuss elder abuse and review a number of case studies in which elders were defrauded by family members, friends, caregivers, and others. Additionally, she will address the psychology of the perpetrators of fraud, discussing in particular the sociopathic and psycho-pathic characteristics of those who perpetrate fraud.

WHAT: LA-ACFE Meeting. Two Hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE). The meeting and registration fee includes: dinner, beverages, and desert.

5 - 6 PM: Registration and Networking
6 - 8 PM: Meeting and Discussion 

WHERE: Los Angeles Athletic Club
431 West 7th Street, Los Angeles 90014
Main Phone: (213) 625-2211
http://www.laac.com/

Located at the northeast corner of 7th and Olive in Downtown LA.
Enter the LAAC parking lot on the east side of Olive just north of 7th.Subsidized parking is available for $4.50 with validation.Click here for directions.