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Liza H. Gold, MD is a board certified general and forensic psychiatrist in private practice since 1992. She has extensive experience in the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of posttraumatic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and disorders related to women's reproductive biology such as postpartum disorders and the use of medication during pregnancy.
Dr. Gold's forensic practice specializes in the mental health assessment of employment related psychiatric problems, emotional injuries, emotional damages, and mental disability. She provided consultations in civil litigation, forensic evaluations in employment litigation and other types of cases, independent medical evaluations, and testimony regarding psychiatric issues, emotional injuries, emotional damages, and mental disability in medical malpractice, employment litigation, workers compensation cases, and other administrative and litigation cases in which psychiatric issues regarding emotional injury or mental disability arise. These include evaluations and testimony regarding psychiatric claims and discrimination, mental disability claims, the ADA, fitness for duty examinations, long-term and short-term disability, workers compensation, sexual, gender and racial discrimination, and other employment related legal and administrative matters.
Dr. Gold is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University Medical Center and teaches at the Georgetown Department of Psychiatry Residency and Forensic Fellowship Program. She is a consultant at the John Howard Forensic Division of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, the Arlington County Courts, and the Alexandria County Courts. She is a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Forensic Psychiatry Certification Examination Committee. She holds medical licenses in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and New York.
Dr. Gold is the award winning author of Sexual Harassment: Psychiatric Assessment in Employment Litigation (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004), (American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2006 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award). She is the coeditor of The American Psychiatric Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004), issued in its second edition in April 2009, and co-author of Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace: Model, Process, and Analysis (Springer 2009). This text has been nominated for the 2011 Guttmacher Award.
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