I am a board-certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I completed my Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent subspecialty training at the University of California, San Francisco, and have been in private psychiatric practice in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2002. Alongside clinical work, I have built a forensic practice that takes me into courtrooms, depositions, and the quieter work of helping counsel think through difficult psychiatric questions in their cases.

I take engagements for plaintiff and defense counsel. I have worked in civil, criminal, administrative, worker’s compensation, conservatorship, and immigration matters. Whatever the legal question, the underlying work is the same. I answer the question asked. This often includes conducting a careful psychiatric evaluation, reviewing the records, and preparing a report with clear, jargon-free conclusions. I place data in context for the court, clearly, so a layperson can follow the reasoning without losing the precision the science requires.

I value collaboration with the legal team. Some of the most useful work I do happens before deposition: anticipating the questions an opposing expert is likely to raise, identifying where the records support the case and where they complicate it, and consulting with counsel