Psychiatric Causation Expert Witnesses

Ellicott City, Maryland

Psychiatry - Psychiatric causation, Work-related mental injury, Civil psychiatric IME, Employment-related psychiatric claims, Psychiatric disability evaluation, Psychiatric functional impairment, Record review psychiatric expert, Insurance psychiatric evaluation, Polypharmacy psychiatric effects

Dr. Yang Roby, MD, PhD, is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with over a decade of clinical experience in adult psychiatry and medico-legal psychiatric evaluation. She is the founder of Innerpeace Psychiatric Services, LLC, where she provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment for adults with complex psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. Her clinical background includes extensive experience across inpatient, outpatient, emergency, consultation-liaison, geriatric, and dual-diagnosis settings. Dr. Roby’s expert witness and IME work focuses on psychiatric causation, threshold impairment, and differential diagnosis in civil and employment-related matters, with particular emphasis on work-related mental injury and disability determinations. She is frequently retained to evaluate whether reported psychiatric symptoms meet diagnostic and functional thresholds, the presence and role of pre-existing psychiatric vulnerability, and the extent to which workplace or situatio...

Seattle, Washington

Psychiatry, Pediatric Psychiatry - Sexual Harassment, Physical and Sexual Assault, Emotional Distress, PTSD, Psychological Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Psychiatric Causation, ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Personality Disorders, Suicide, Autism, Independent Medical Examination, Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Child Abuse, Psychedelics, Ketamine

PSYCHIATRIST & PSYCHOANALYST: FORENSIC & CLINICAL EVALUATION CREDENTIALS Board Certified: Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN) Faculty: University of Washington (Current); Harvard Medical School (Former) Training: Harvard Medical School (Residency & Fellowship) Experience: 20+ years clinical evaluation and treatment across the lifespan FORENSIC & CLINICAL EXPERTISE Diagnostic Clarification: Objective assessment of Complex Trauma, PTSD, Mood, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Autism & ADHD), and related psychiatric conditions. Impairment Assessment: Longitudinal psychiatric functional impairment and disability evaluations. Litigation Support: Psychiatric Causation and Sequelae; Assessment of Damages; Standard of Care review. Evaluative Services: IMEs, Rule 35 Exams, Evidence-Based Reports, and Rule 26 Disclosures. Testimony: Available for Deposition and Trial (Plaintiff and Defense). LOGISTICS Location: Seattle-based Availability: National travel; Remote/Telehealth consultation