Munchausen Syndrome Expert Witnesses

Boston, Massachusetts

Psychiatry, Mental Health - Telepsychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry, Catatonia, QT Prolongation, SJS and lamotrigine, Suicide, Malingering, Factitious Disorder, Munchausen syndrome, Overdose, Delirium, Risk Assessment, Delirium Tremens, Serotonin syndrome, Alcohol withdrawal, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

I am a consultation-liaison and emergency room psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, specializing in the care of patients with co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness. I specialize in caring for patients with medical complications of psychiatric illness or psychiatric medications, as well as psychiatric complications of medical illness or medications. As an emergency psychiatrist, I regularly perform risk assessment for suicide and harm to others and make decisions about whether patients need to be hospitalized involuntarily. Each week, I see dozens of patients with the following conditions: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, personality disorders, PTSD, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and TBI. I teach and supervise medical students, residents and fellows on a daily basis. I completed a psychiatry residency at University of Virginia and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Massa...