Forensic psychiatrist provides expert witness services with over 20 years of experience in forensic psychiatry, including 10 years of expert witness experience involving civil and criminal cases with psychiatric issues. Their work includes performing Independent Medical Evaluations, disability evaluations, fitness for duty assessments, psychiatric malpractice evaluations, peer review, emotional distress evaluations, personal injury assessments, and post-traumatic stress disorder evaluations. Additional areas of evaluation include testamentary capacity, malingering, competency, insanity, pre-sentencing evaluations, death penalty cases, conservatorship evaluations, workers’ compensation, and emergency psychiatry.

Their professional experience includes conducting psychiatric and post-traumatic stress disorder evaluations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as service in the United States Navy. They have also worked with the San Diego County Forensic Evaluation Unit and the San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital, performing psychiatric evaluations and providing services in forensic and emergency psychiatric settings. Their work includes multiple fitness for duty evaluations for law enforcement personnel and evaluations involving military service-related psychiatric issues.

The expert is board certified in psychiatry and holds subspecialty certification in forensic psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. They are a Qualified Medical Evaluator in the State of California and hold an active medical license in California. Additional professional involvement includes serving as an expert reviewer for the Medical Board of California and affiliations with the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American College of Forensic Psychiatry, and the San Diego Psychiatric Society. Their educational background includes a Doctor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Biology, along with clinical training in psychiatry through internship and residency and fellowship training in forensic psychiatry.