Forensic psychiatry and internal medicine shape his work as a psychiatry expert witness with more than 5 years of experience in forensic psychiatry, detecting feigned psychiatric illness, suicide and violence risk assessment, competency to stand trial, insanity defense, mental state evaluations, fitness for duty evaluations, psychiatric malpractice, and civil competency evaluations. His clinical background includes psychiatry, internal medicine, emergency psychiatry, psychotropic medication issues, psychiatric side effects, and medical conditions in psychiatric patients. He has prior experience offering services as a psychiatry expert witness. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Bachelor of Science in biology, completed combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency training, and completed fellowship training in forensic psychiatry. He is board certified in psychiatry, holds unrestricted licensure to practice medicine, and has held ACLS certification. His professional involvement includes the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, American Psychiatric Association, and Utah Medical Association. His professional experience includes current psychiatric practice, prior medical officer responsibilities in a mental health institute, and prior work as a lab director and center physician. He has also held chief resident responsibility in psychiatry and participated in resident leadership, graduate medical education, and policy subcommittee activities. His forensic psychiatry background includes psychological autopsy, competency restoration, religious objections to treatment, involuntary psychiatric medication, violence risk assessment, suicide risk assessment, psychiatric malpractice issues, and the relationship between medical conditions, psychiatric symptoms, and psychotropic medication side effects.