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Forensic Psychiatrist, Brain Injury Medicine, Medical Evaluator

ID: 736011 Texas, USA

Expert is triple-Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine and Psychiatry. He assesses emotional distress and mental health injuries as well as brain injury concerns. Triggers considered are personal injury, undue influence, changed competency, medical malpractice, physical and emotional abuse, violence, and criminal behavior. Expert is the Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at TIRR Memorial Hermann where his clinical focus is treating the neuropsychiatric complications of brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury. Previously he served as the Medical Director of PACE Mental Health. Expert has clinical experience in high-risk and security-sensitive settings, maximum-security prisons and correctional psychiatric hospitals, inmates on Death Row and segregated in Isolation. Expert also volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights - Asylum Network and Daya Houston, conducting forensic assessments of victims of kidnapping and false imprisonment, human trafficking, undue influence, physical and sexual abuse, and rape. Expert is skilled in evaluating PTSD, Anxiety and Depressive Disorders, risk of suicide, and malingering. He is experienced in the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on decision-making. In psychiatric hospitals, Expert treats psychosis: Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders (hallucinations, delusions.) Expert’s findings consider complicating factors, such as emotional distress worsened by physical and emotional isolation from family and support (e.g., prisoner or elder.) Pre-existing mental and physical illness, competency and capacity (e.g. dementia, Intellectual Disability) and medication or addiction may also be relevant to his opinions. Expert opines about medical malpractice and standard of care, including in government-regulated and institutional settings. Expert conducts Independent Medical Examinations and review of records, issuing his med-legal findings by report, testimony or private consultation. Expert is available to testify as an expert witness in civil, criminal, military, probate, Federal, Immigration and administrative jurisdictions.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 2014	Degree:	Subject: Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship	Institution: Oregon Health Sciences University
Year: 2012	Degree:	Subject: Psychiatry Residency	Institution: University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2019 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Department:
Responsibilities: Expert's clinical focus will be treating the psychiatric complications of brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2020 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Staff Psychiatrist	Department:
Responsibilities: Provides psychiatric and addiction medicine treatments to disenfranchised populations such as the LGBT community, those with Housing Insecurity and Persons living with HIV (PLHIV). Avenue 360 is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2018 to 2019	Employer: PACE Mental Health	Title: Medical Director	Department:
Responsibilities: Served as the Medical Director and supervised mid-level providers in Houston and Sugar Land, Texas. He treated general psychiatric patients and those with Substance Use Disorders. He provided Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) with Buprenorphine (aka Suboxone).
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2014 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: President	Department:
Responsibilities: Provides expert witness and consulting services to attorneys and other entities. He has assisted attorneys in state, federal and military courts nationwide. His reports are detailed and have resulted in a settlement without a trial. He does thrive in depositions and enjoys the intellectual challenge of testifying. His wide-ranging clinical experience informs his expert witness work. Expert is one of about a dozen Forensic Psychiatrist who is Board-Certified in Brain Injury Medicine.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2019 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Advisor	Department:
Responsibilities: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Expert to the Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. The committee advises the board and the director of the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments on matters related to offenders with medical or mental impairments and perform other duties imposed by the board. Expert also serves on the Geriatric sub-committee.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2016 to 2016	Employer: Texas Department of Justice	Title: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Department: UTMB-CMC
Responsibilities: Served as a Staff Psychiatrist at the Jester IV TDCJ Prison Psychiatric Hospital. He treated Impulse Disorders, Self-Injurious Behavior, and other psychiatric illnesses with offenders on Death Row and those in Restrictive Housing. He provided telepsychiatric outpatient care to offenders at the Polunsky Death Row Unit. He was appointed as Assistant Professor of UTMB.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2015 to 2016	Employer: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)	Title: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Department: Competency Restoration Unit at Harris County Psychiatric Center
Responsibilities: Served the Competency Restoration Unit at Harris County Psychiatric Center treating those deemed Incompetent to Stand Trial. His patients came from the Harris County Jail as well as other jails in Texas. The goal of the unit is to treat mental illness and restore the patients to competency so they are able to aid and assist their defense attorneys. Expert also taught medical students and psychiatry residents.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2014 to 2015	Employer: Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services	Title: Psychiatrist	Department:
Responsibilities: Treated those with severe Intellectual Disabilities, Genetic Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorders in a residential facility. He worked with Behavioral Analysts. He prepared documentation as mandated by a settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice.
Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2010 to 2013	Employer: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)	Title: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	Department: Harris County Psychiatric Center
Responsibilities: Worked at Harris County Psychiatric Center on a general Inpatient Unit treating those with severe mental illness and teaching medical residents in the Department of Psychiatry.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American Psychiatric Association Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Physicians for Human Rights - Asylum Network Daya Houston Houston Psychiatric Society

Licenses / Certifications
Board Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2014) Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2015) Board-Certified in Brain Injury Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2018) Texas Medical License, Board of Medical Examiners Certified Medical Review Officer (MRO), Medical Review Officers Certification Council, 2020

Licenses / Certifications

Board Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2014)
Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2015)
Board-Certified in Brain Injury Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2018)
Texas Medical License, Board of Medical Examiners
Certified Medical Review Officer (MRO), Medical Review Officers Certification Council, 2020

Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UT Health Dept. of Psychiatry Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health and Science Center Government Appointments: Appointment to Governor’s Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. Appointed and confirmed by the Texas State Senate Additional appointment to the Geriatric Sub-Committee. Government Contracts: U.S. Department of Defense Federal Courts

Professional Appointments

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UT Health Dept. of Psychiatry
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health and Science Center

Government Appointments:
Appointment to Governor’s Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.
Appointed and confirmed by the Texas State Senate
Additional appointment to the Geriatric Sub-Committee.

Government Contracts:
U.S. Department of Defense
Federal Courts

Awards / Recognition
Editor-In-Chief of Brain Injury Medicine - Stat Pearls Ranked #1, Psychiatry Residency In-Service (PRITE)

Publications and Patents Summary
Date Rape Drugs: Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Law Weaponized Chemistry: a Medicine Cabinet of Assault Presentations: 6 Publications: 1 Research: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Role of Massage on Depression Study CHAI Study, Coronary artery disease among Houston Asian Indians Carpal Tunnel Glove, Biofeedback and EMG Research

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Expert Witness Experience
Criminal Cases Capital Cases Civil Cases Military Cases Occupational IMEs Fitness for Duty Disability TBI Cases PTSD Cases Sexual Assault see https://www.forensicpsychiatrynow.com/ for more

Training / Seminars
AAPL MRO Training Capacity for Justice

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