What is Forensic Psychiatry?

Forensic psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that includes research and clinical practice in the many areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues. Forensic psychiatrists work in a variety of areas in which the mental health and the law overlap. Forensic psychiatric evaluation is provided through our forensic clinic.

Examples include evaluations and consultations around the following:

Risk assessment
Traumatic brain injury
Criminal responsibility
Mental state at the time of the offense
Competence, civil and criminal
Child custody
Psychiatric issues relevant to mitigation at sentencing, including capital sentencing
Involuntary treatment
Correctional psychiatry
Juvenile justice
Ethics and human rights
Psychiatric damages relevant to civil litigation
Independent medical evaluation
Medical malpractice
Disability status determinations

Contact Us

Eileen P. Ryan, DO
Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Services
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
1670 Upham Drive; Suite 130
614-685-5602
Eileen.Ryan@osumc.edu

Our Leaders

Eileen Ryan, DO

Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Services, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Dr. Eileen Ryan is a board-certified psychiatrist in general, child and adolescent and forensic psychiatry. She is the Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Services for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.

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Douglas Misquitta, MD

Assistant Professor - Clinical

Dr. Douglas Misquitta is a board-certified general psychiatrist with additional training in forensic psychiatry. He is the psychiatrist for the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs at Harding Hospital at The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center.