Bringing more than 10 years of experience in psychiatry and forensic mental health systems, this double board-certified psychiatrist specializes in competency to stand trial evaluations, criminal responsibility assessments, forensic psychiatric consultation, and complex diagnostic analysis involving severe mental illness. Areas of expertise include treatment-resistant schizophrenia, involuntary medication proceedings, malingering evaluations, violent and sex offender risk assessments, disability evaluations, custody-related psychiatric assessments, and fitness-for-duty evaluations involving secured environments and weapons-carrying positions. The expert regularly evaluates psychiatric conditions within legal and correctional contexts and provides objective opinions in both civil and criminal matters.

Currently serving as Chief of the Forensic Evaluation Department within a state psychiatric hospital system, the expert leads a department of more than 20 forensic psychiatrists and psychologists responsible for conducting evaluations involving competency restoration, not guilty by reason of insanity commitments, and offender mental health disorders. Previous professional experience spans state hospitals, correctional facilities, county behavioral health systems, academic psychiatry settings, and telepsychiatry services. Responsibilities have included psychiatric treatment, forensic consultation, forensic program administration, and supervision of multidisciplinary forensic mental health services in institutional and correctional environments.

Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Psychology earned magna cum laude. The expert completed psychiatry residency training, followed by fellowship training in forensic psychiatry. Board certification is maintained in both Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Professional memberships include the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American Psychiatric Association, and regional psychiatric societies. Scholarly and professional activities include publications and presentations addressing forensic psychiatry, correctional mental health, involuntary treatment, transgender inmate management, psychotherapy, and psychiatric evaluation practices. The expert has lectured on civil forensic psychiatry, conservatorships, forensic documentation, and correctional mental health considerations at professional conferences and institutional training programs. Expert witness experience includes forensic consultation, report preparation, depositions, administrative hearings, parole hearings, and courtroom testimony involving competency, involuntary medication proceedings, offender evaluations, and forensic psychiatric determinations.