Geriatric Mental Health Expert Witnesses
Geriatric mental health expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on geriatric mental health. The geriatric mental health expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Geriatric Psychiatry.
Sanford I. Finkel, MD
Wilmette, Illinois
Geriatric Psychiatry
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contested wills, mental capacity, competency, testamentary capacity, undue influence, geriatric mental health, trust contests, insane delusions, estate planning, geriatric forensic psychiatry, will contests
• Sanford Finkel, MD, is an active clinician, geriatric psychiatrist for over 50 years.
• His primary forensic activity relates to contested wills, particularly complex material which requires comprehensive analysis.
• He has been retained in about 200 cases and can provide references upon request.
• He currently is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago Medical School.
• He also has been a Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School where he also was a Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Neurology.
• He is the Founder of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and co-founder of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) and the American Psychiatric Association Council on Aging.
• He is the Founding chair of the IPA’s Task Force on Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence.
• He has approximately 150 publications and has given over 1000 lectures in the field of geriatric psychiatry.
