This forensic psychiatry expert witness has more than 10 years of experience in correctional psychiatry, competency evaluations, sanity assessments, mental health disability analysis, and psychiatric care within inpatient and custodial settings. His work includes forensic mental health evaluations involving competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, dangerousness assessments, grave disability determinations, decision-making capacity, testamentary capacity, inmate medical consent, and allegations involving deliberate indifference in correctional healthcare environments. He has also provided consultations and courtroom testimony as a forensic psychiatry expert witness for more than 5 years.

Currently serving in a clinical leadership role within inpatient behavioral health services, he also maintains an active appointment as a staff forensic psychiatrist conducting court-ordered psychiatric evaluations. Earlier leadership responsibilities included serving as Medical Director of Psychiatry for correctional healthcare operations involving pre-trial detainee populations. His professional background further includes psychiatric treatment services within correctional institutions, psychiatric emergency departments, inpatient behavioral health units, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and emergency psychiatric care for indigent and incarcerated adult populations.

Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he earned a Doctor of Medicine degree following completion of a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. His postgraduate medical training included psychiatry residency education and internal medicine internship training, with additional clinical work involving hospice psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, consultation-liaison services, and psychiatric treatment planning. Licensure includes physician and surgeon licensure in both California and Nevada.

His forensic and correctional psychiatry experience includes evaluation of mental health care standards in jail and prison settings, psychiatric impairment analysis, competency restoration-related issues, inmate psychiatric treatment considerations, and mental health emergencies within custodial systems. Professional memberships include the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Forensic Mental Health Association of California, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association. He has also contributed scholarly publications addressing personality disorders within the court system, geriatric psychiatric treatment considerations, and psychiatric identification practices in hospice and palliative care populations.