Prison Suicide Expert Witness Services
Specialties & Experience
General Specialties: Psychiatry and Correctional Healthcare
Specialty Focus: Suicide, Prisons, Jails, Forensic Psychiatry, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, PTSD, medication, substance abuse, jail suicide, prison suicide, correctional suicide, group home suicide, nursing home suicide, addiction, teen suicide, juvenile suicide
Education: Residency and Fellowship, University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine
Years in Practice: 40+
Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 50+
National Areas of Services and Expertise:
- Mental Health and Psychiatric Services to Prisons and Jails
- Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention in Prisons and Jails
Consultations on:
- Analysis of 1983 Claims Pertaining to Jails and Prisons
- Malpractice and Medical Negligence
- Standards of Care Analysis
- Psychopharmacological Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Jails and Prisons
- Case Reviews of Suicide in Jails and Prisons
- Expert Consultation on Wrongful Death and Suicide Related Litigations
- Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies
- Pharmacotherapy of Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Corrections
- Mental Health Programs in Corrections
Other Areas of Expertise:
Independent Medical Examination
- Workers Compensation
- Personal Injury
- Disability Determination
- Compensation and Pension Evaluation of Veterans
- Fitness to Duty
- Examination to determine Guardianship/Conservatorship
- Capacity to Execute a Willuo
Forensic Evaluation in Criminal Cases
- Competency to Stand Trial
- Insanity Defense
- Diminished Capacity
- Suitability to be released from the State Forensic Mental health System
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Evaluations and Testimony
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Medication Treatment of Children with Mental Disorders
- Standard of Care Analysis
- Juvenile Evaluation
- Personal injury