A forensic psychiatrist and expert witness with more than 40 years of experience, this physician specializes in psychiatric disability, workers’ compensation and fitness-for-duty evaluations, psychiatric malpractice, therapist boundary violations, impaired physicians and other professionals, post-traumatic stress disorder, workplace violence, and psychiatric and medical record review. More than 40 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. Additional forensic expertise encompasses competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, mental state at the time of an alleged offense, evaluations relevant to sentencing and treatment, sexual offender assessment, individual and family therapy, and agency consultation.

Educational attainment includes a bachelor’s degree and a medical degree, followed by a medical internship and psychiatric residency training with service as chief resident. Professional credentials include permanent board certification in Psychiatry and designation as a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. His clinical and administrative background has included leadership of psychiatric education, quality assurance, risk management, crisis intervention, psychiatric liaison and emergency services, and methadone treatment programs, together with prior command responsibility in a military medical detachment.

Within forensic and public-sector psychiatry, the expert has served as a court psychiatrist, consultant for disability determinations, consultant on behavioral medical reviews, and psychiatric advisor in matters involving driver fitness. His professional experience also includes general and forensic psychiatric practice, consultation regarding child abuse, assisted-living psychiatry, and assessment of psychiatric conditions relevant to disability, professional functioning, criminal proceedings, and treatment planning.

Professional leadership includes extensive service with the Maryland Psychiatric Society, including roles as president, council chair, secretary/treasurer, committee chair, and peer-review participant. He has also held chapter presidency, executive committee, council, and committee positions with the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Additional authority is reflected in psychiatric journal review work, prior service as an American Psychiatric Association peer reviewer, and publications addressing dying patients, child abuse, abusive families, and violent behavior. This combination of forensic practice, psychiatric leadership, professional standards work, and expert testimony supports evaluation of psychiatric impairment, professional conduct, criminal responsibility, workplace risk, and other complex behavioral health issues in litigation.