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From June 2006
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Dr. Leonard Barley Shrinking ADHD's Impact
By Elizabeth SagehornIn this hypercaffeinated, 500-channel, multitasking, Blackberry-messaging-while-you-treadmill business world, attention deficit disorder doesn’t seem as much a handicap as a job requirement. Despite the jokes people make about having “ADD,” this disorder can be a crippling job-killer.
Local psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Barley says that the economic impact on America from adult ADD/ADHD sufferers is $50 billion a year in lost productivity. “Employees are often late. They may seem inattentive or make impulsive bad decisions. They forget meetings.”
Barley laughs at the moniker “situational ADHD” bandied about in the news lately. “This is not true attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, just in-efficiency. People are doing too many things at one time.”
He should know. This 59-year-old entrepreneur currently holds three jobs: CEO of Roseville-based Cognitive Diagnostic Center; is a psychiatrist with a practice in Roseville; and is the medical director of Heritage Oaks Hospital in Sacramento. He also founded MedLogic Global in the late ’80s, which developed advanced nonsuture adhesives.
Barley ran MedLogic Global as CEO, then chairman. He even went back to school and got an MBA to understand business better. He matched brains with some of the brightest people in America on his board of directors, before he sold the concern to the UK-based technology company Advanced Medical Solutions.
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