Forensic Psychiatry Services

Consultation, Evaluation, and Testimony

Dr. Gold is a board certified forensic psychiatrist with a national reputation. She has been retained to provide expert services all over the United States. Dr. Gold has been retained by both plaintiffs and defense attorneys as well as administrative agencies, consultative health agencies, insurance companies, and government agencies to provide expert opinions on psychiatric issues that arise in legal or administrative settings.

Dr. Gold specializes in the mental health assessment of employment related psychiatric problems, emotional injuries, emotional damages, and mental disability. She has authored numerous articles and books on psychiatric employment evaluations and mental disability evaluations. She provides consultations in civil litigation, forensic evaluations in employment litigation and other types of cases, independent medical evaluations, and testimony regarding psychiatric issues, emotional injuries and damages in medical malpractice, employment litigation, and mental disability claims. 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.

A complete list of forensic services and assessments is provided below.

Forensic Psychiatry Assessments

• Mental and emotional damages

• Mental and emotional injuries

• Mental disability

• Causation of emotional injury

• Mitigation of emotional injury/damages

• Treatment needs and prognosis

• Fitness for Duty evaluations

• Americans with Disabilities Act

• Title VII claims

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims

• Workers' Compensation claims

• State employment and human rights commissions claims

• Violence risk assessments

• Impaired professionals

• Malpractice and standard of care

• Sexual misconduct by professionals

 

Forensic Psychiatry Services

• Case and Document Review

• Consultation with attorneys

• Independent Medical Evaluations

• Deposition and Courtroom Testimony

 

 

2501 North Glebe Road, Suite 204 Arlington , VA 22207
Phone: (703) 875-0435 Fax: (703) 875-0434
E-mail: lhgoldmd@gmail.com