Clinton Ernest Tempereau MD
The Grossman Burn Center, 4929 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91324
Telephone: (818) 349-1098 FAX: (818) 349-3723
E-mail: clint@tempereau.com
Internet address: www.tempereau.com/clinton
Curriculum Vitae:
Dr. Tempereau is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry. For the past 25 years he has limited his practice to crisis intervention, with an emphasis on acute burn trauma. He is a regular contributor to Survivor Newsbrief, a burn survivors’ newsletter. As Chief of Psychiatric Services at the Grossman Burn Center from 1980 to 2000, he has treated several hundred burn survivors. He has written and lectured extensively on electrical injuries, loss of the will to live, psychological regression and many other subjects.
Prior to entering psychiatry Dr. Tempereau was trained in Internal Medicine, serving as a research associate, then clinical instructor, in the Department of Infectious Diseases at UCLA. Early in his career he became a Flight Surgeon. As Chief of Psychiatric Services for the Fifth Air Force in Korea during the Korean War, he interviewed and evaluated approximately 100 newly repatriated prisoners of war.
Dr. Tempereau has been married to Hak Jue Tempereau since July 1954. They have five children, Fred, Kim, Lynn, Margot and John. He enjoys snow skiing, gardening, ecological travel, poetry, linguistics and Old English.
EDUCATION
Waukesha High School, Waukesha, WI
Graduated 05/42
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Bach. of Science 09/15/45
Univ. of Wis. Med. Sch., Madison, WI
M.D. 05/24/47
MILITARY
U.S. Naval Reserve
11/06/43-01/31/44 & 01/22/46-08/16/46
Calif. Air Nat’l Guard
07/01/47-06/30/48
U. S. Air Force Reserve
04/18/52-08/25/52
U. S. Sch. Of Aviation Medicine,
Randolph AF Base, San Antonio, Texas
10/01/52-12/20/52
Barksdale AFB, Bossier City, Louisiana
(Chief of Psychiatry)
01/01/53-3/31/53
Tachikawa AFB, Japan
(Staff psychiatrist)
04/01/53-05/10/53
Headquarters, 5th Air Force, Korea
(Chief of Psychiatrist Services)
05/11/53-08/12/54
Korean Service Medal; U.N Service Medal
Honorable Discharge
09/03/54
INTERNSHIP
St. Luke’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
07/01/47-06/30/48
RESIDENCIES
V. A. Hosp., Van Nuys, CA: Internal Med. 01/03/49-03/31/50 V. A. Hosp., Van Nuys, CA: Psychiatry 04/01/50-06/20/50 V. A. Hosp., Long Beach, CA: Psychiatry 06/21/50-09/30/50 V. A. Hosp., Long Beach, CA: Int. Med. 01/01/50-03/17/51 V. A. Hosp., Long Beach, CA: Psy. & Neur. 03/18/51-04/25/52 V. A. Hosp., Long Beach, CA: Psy. & Neur. 09/27/54-07/06/55 U. S. Air Force Residency and Practice Credit:
20 months
PRIVATE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
Eagle, WI 07/01/48-12/31/48 Long Beach, CA
05/01/52-08/25/52
PRIVATE PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY
Los Angeles, CA 07/06/55-02/28/59 Sherman Oaks, CA
1959-2000
CERTIFICATION
Wisconsin license to practice medicine 07/01/48 California license to practice medicine 01/29/51 Flight Surgeon: U. S. Air Force 05/07/54 Diplomate, Amer. Bd, of Psychiatry & Neur
10/15/55
APPOINTMENTS
Research Associate, Dept. of Infectious Dis.
UCLA Medical School
02/27/50-06/31/51 Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Infectious Dis.,
UCLA Medical School
07/01/51-03/31/53 Instructor, General & Abnormal Psychiatry,
HQ 5th Air Force, Korea1953-1954 Psychiatric Consultant, Detached Service to
U.S. Army, Operation "Big Switch",
Osan, Korea & USS Black08/12/53-10/12/53 Psychiatric Consultant, USPHS Federal
Correctional Institution, Terminal
Island, CA07/01/55-07/01/56 Psychiatric Examiner, Los Angeles
Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA1955-1956 Psychiatric Examiner, Dept. of Pensions,
Los Angeles, CA1984-1987 Ch. of Psych. Services, Grossman Burn Ctr.
@ Sherman Oaks, CA
@ Anaheim, CA
1980-2000
07/24/95-05/01/97
Bioethics Committee, Sherman Oaks Hosp. 1987-1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Medical Association
California Medical Association
Los Angeles County Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
Southern California Psychiatric Society
American Burn Association
American Trauma Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association: Life Member
HOSPITAL STAFF APPOINTMENTS
Sherman Oaks Hospital and Health Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Carpenter CM, DeBoer CJ, Tempereau CE.
Agglutinin response to intradermal test for sensitivity to Brucella.
J of Immun, 65:331-5, Sept. 1950
West PM, Rapaport SI, Tempereau CE.
Enzymatic evaluation of therapeutic agents in cancer.
Cancer, 4:177-83, Jan. 1951
Jacobs JSL, West PM. Tempereau CE.
Studies of proteolytic enzyme systems in patients with emotional disorders.
Proc Soc Exptl Biol Med, 78:410-02, 1951
Tempereau, CE, Carpenter CM, Lack A, Rawlings B.
Effects of ACTH in experimental brucellosis in guinea pigs.
Ann Western Med and Surg, 5:997-99999, Dec. 1951
Jacobs JSL, Tempereau CE, West PM.
The effect of insulin coma on insulin secretion.
Science, 116:87-7, July 14, 1952
Jacobs JSL, Tempereau CE.
Studies of a proteolytic enzyme system in schizophrenia.
AMA Arch Neur and Psychiatry, 68:388-92, September, 1952
Goodman JR, Florsheim WH, Tempereau CE.
Reserpine and thyroid function.
Proc Soc Exptl Biol and Med, 90:196-8, 1955
Tempereau CE. Fear of flying in Korea.
Am J of Psychiatry, 113:218-23, September, 1956
Tempereau CE, Grossman AR, Brones MF.
Psychological regression and marital status; determinants in the psychiatric management of burn victims.
J burn Care Rehab, 8:286-91, 1987.
Tempereau CE, Grossman AR, Brones MF.
Letter to the editor, JAMA, 260:3437-8, December 16, 1988
Tempereau CE, Grossman AR, Brones MF.
Volitional collapse (loss of the will to live) in burn patients.
J Burn Care Rehab, 10:464-8, Sept/Oct, 1989
Grossman AR, Tempereau CE, Brones MF, Kulber HS, Pembrook LJ.
Auditory and central nervous system effects of electrical injury.
J Burn Care Rehab, 14:169-75, Mar/Apr, 1993
Tempereau CE.
When a firefighter gets burned.
US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service. Fire Management Notes 56:21-2, 1996
Tempereau CE
Burn injuries and the psychotrauma team.
California Workers’ Compensation Enquirer, Nov/Dec, 1998
INCIDENTAL
Tempereau CE. Article in the Los Angeles Times: PERSPECTIVE ON THE FIRES (Commentary on Op-Ed page). Nov. 3, 1993
Tempereau CE. Continuing Medical Education lecture: POST-EARTHQUAKE TRAUMA. Sherman Oaks Hospital and Medical Center, Feb 17, 1994
Tempereau CE. Founding member of SCAN (Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect) team at Grossman Burn Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Tempereau CE. Article distributed to Glendale (CA) Fire Fighters: WHEN ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS ONE. April 12, 1987
Tempereau CE. Article in ExpertEase Newsletter of Pro/Consul, Inc., Winter 2000
Tempereau CE. "BURN TOPICS" in Survivor Newsbrief (a burn survivors’ newsletter):
Skin and Brain, A rapid-response team
Pain tolerance
Facial scars
Beyond sadness
Why me?
Burns and badness
Those first few weeks
Regression
The big stress test
In praise of bonding
Caregiving at its best
Laura
Dante’s inferno and ours
A rational basis for trauma counseling
Stony silence
When a child is burned
When One Plus One Equals One
Peace of Mind