Civil Commitment Expert Witnesses

Boston, Massachusetts

Psychology, Forensic Psychology - Competency, Testing, Consult, Risk, Mitigation, Personal injury, Voluntariness, Sexual, Violent, Depression, Criminal Responsibility, Civil commitment, Diminished Capacity, Aid in Sentencing, Board-Certified, Neuropsychological Testing, Murder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD"), Therapy, Trauma

Dr. Winsmann is a Harvard Medical School-affiliated, licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of New York, the State of Florida, the state of Iowa, the State of New Hampshire, and the State of South Carolina. Dr. Winsmann is Board-Certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. For more information about ABPP Board-certification as a forensic psychologist, please visit: https://abfp.com/about/ Dr. Winsmann completed a fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Psychoanalytic Studies as a Harvard Medical School Clinical Fellow, where he subsequently served as a Faculty Member. Dr. Winsmann serves as the Moderator of PsyLaw List, which is an international email list comprised of approximately 1000 members involved in forensic psychology. He is ...

patchogue, New York

Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry - forensic psychiatry, psychiatry, child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric malpractice, competency, criminal responsibility, civil commitment, suicide risk, violence risk, employment disability, hospital psychiatry, correctional psychiatry, expert witness psychiatry, psychopharmacology, forensic evaluations, IME, law

Dr. Jason R. Yanofski, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 15 years of clinical and forensic experience across multiple U.S. states and internationally. He is fellowship-trained in both Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (UT Southwestern Medical Center) and Forensic Psychiatry (Yale University), following a psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Yanofski’s career has spanned some of the nation’s most challenging psychiatric environments. He has served as a staff psychiatrist at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (New York), Napa State Hospital (California), San Quentin State Prison (California), and the California Health Care Facility. Internationally, he worked as an adult, child, and forensic psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore, served as a civilian psychiatrist for the U.S. Navy in Japan, and as psychiatry team leader for the U.S. Army in Germany. His broad practic...

Galveston, Texas

Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatry - Competence to stand trial, Insanity, Criminal responsibility, Sentencing mitigation, Risk assessment, Civil commitment, Testamentary capacity, Guardianship, Malpractice, Disability, Fitness for duty

Rocksheng Zhong, MD, MHS is Associate Professor, Director of Forensic Services, and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Director in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch, as well as Lecturer in the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Yale School of Medicine. He completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine, general psychiatry residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and forensic psychiatry fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine. He is board certified in general psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Prior to joining UTMB, he served as Medical Director of Northern Arizona for Southwest Behavioral and Health Services, where he supervised the treatment of serious mental illness and addiction and was a court-appointed psychiatric examiner for Mohave County Superior Court civil commitment proceedings. Dr. Zhong maintains a clinical practice in general and forensic psychiatry. He treats patients with me...