Carol Wolman, MD - Bio
I have lived on the Mendocino Coast since 1980. My husband, Robert Clapsadle, and I raised our two children here. I have practiced psychiatry in Elk, Albion, Mendocino and Fort Bragg, mostly working with the indigent.
Education and awards:
1958- Merit Scholar
1962- Radcliffe College- BA cum laude
1967- MD - Harvard Medical School – top third of class
1967-68 Stanford University- internship in Internal Medicine
1970-73 University of Pennsylvania- Residency in Psychiatry
1975- Board Certified in Psychiatry
1978- made a Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association
Military
1968-70 USPHS Division of Indian Health- Gallup, NM
Ran an alcohol detoxification/rehabilitation program, helped open a psychiatric unit.
Work History
1973-present Practice of psychiatry, Mendocino Coast and Oakland, CA-
1988-92- Consultant, Native American Health Center, Oakland
1988-present- Consultant- American Indian Child Welfare
Political, Community and Peace Activity
1959-62 Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
1963-67- Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
1970-78 – Board, Agape Foundation
Ran many consciousness raising groups about the threat of nuclear war
1979- CoFounder and President, Northern California Physicians for Social Responsibility, with Helen Caldicott and others
1980- 88- CoFounder Interhelp- with Joanna Macy and others-
1992-2002- Ran Touchstone- Albion Community Center- provided meals, childcare, movie night, music night, needle exchange, emergency services, and counseling to the Albion community
1999-2003-Founder, with John Lewallen, Nuclear Peace Action Group- lobbied to save the ABM treaty and stop nuclear proliferation-made two lobbying trips to Washington
2004-present- Founder and Cochair- Impeach Bush-Cheney
1997- present- active internet presence, running groups, writing articles-
see http://www.opednews.com/author/author20.html
2006- ran for Congress in CA District 1 as an independent write-in candidate
Film making with Robert and Jacob Clapsadle
1989-92 Producer, music director THE RIDE TO WOUNDED KNEE- documentary about the Lakota commemoration of the 1890 massacre.
1996-98 Producer, composer and music director PARADISE COVE – gangster genre dramatic feature
2006-7 Associate Producer, with Robert and Jacob Clapsadle: HIGH CRIMES AND ATROCITIES- documenting the actions of Bush and Cheney that are grounds for impeachment.
2006-8 CAROL WOLMAN FOR CONGRESS! Documentary Project
Watch the two minute video that introduces Carol and gives an overview of her platform,
or the full twenty minute video following Carol on the campaign trail.
Also see Running as an independent write-in candidate in '06