Medical Board Certification and Membership
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1991)
Forensic Psychiatry, Subspecialty Certification (1999)
Member, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Forensic Psychiatry Certification Examination Committee, 2008 – 2025
Medical Licensure
Maryland
District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Virginia
New Jersey
New York
Employment
District of Columbia Superior Court Commission on Mental Health, 2017 – present
Member
Commission on Mental Health
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Office of Forensic Services
Forensic Oversight System
Academic Appointments
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Education
Boston University Psychiatry Residency Training Program, 1986 – 1990
New York University School of Medicine, M.D., 1986
University of Cambridge, Master of Philosophy in the History of Medicine, 1983
Harvard/Radcliffe College, magna cum laude, B.A., 1981
Professional Affiliations
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)
Governance
- President-Elect, 2019-2020 [President, 2020-2021]
- Vice President, 2017-2018
- Vice President, 2011-2012
- Board of Governance Councilor, 2006-2009
Chairmanships
- Chair, Task Force on Committee Reform, 2018-2019
- Co-Chair, Education Committee, 2018-2021
- Program Chair, 2006 Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL), 2005-2006
- Chair, Task Force on the Development of Disability Evaluations Guidelines, 2005- 2007
AAPL Institute for Research and Education
- Chair, Education Committee 2018 – 2021
- Board Member, 2015-2021
AAPL Representative, American Medical Association Conference on AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 2018
President, Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2004-2008
American Psychiatric Association
Distinguished Fellow, 2006
Chairmanships
- Isaac Ray Award Committee, 2015-2018
- Committee of Tellers, 2003-2006
Committees
- Isaac Ray Award Committee, 2010-2013; 2015 – 2018
- Council on Psychiatry and Law, 2007-2010; corresponding member 2015-2018
- Committee on Judicial Action, 2002-2006; consultant 2015-2018
- Council on Psychiatry and Law Firearms Workgroup, 2013-2014
- Committee of Tellers, 2002-2008
- Corresponding Committee on History and Library, 2002-2008
AAPL Representative: American Bar Association, “Moving From Crisis to Action: A
Public Health Approach to Reducing to Gun Violence,” Mother Emanuel A.M.E.
Church, Charleston, SC, December 4, 2015
APA Resource Documents
- Kapoor R, Benedek E, Bonnie RJ, Gandhi T, Gold LH, Judd S, Pinals DA: Risk-Based Firearm Removal Laws, 2018
- Pinals DA, Appelbaum PS, Bonnie R, Fisher C, Gold LH, Lee L: Access to Firearms by People with Mental Disorders, 2014
Experience Summary
Private Practice, Clinical and Forensic Psychiatry, Arlington, VA
District of Columbia Superior Court, Mental Health Commission, 2017
Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Forensic Evaluation Oversight Panel, 2019
St. Elizabeths Hospital, Consultant, John Howard Pavilion, 2008 – 2009
Court Appointed Evaluations
- Arlington County District and Circuit Courts, 2008- present
- Fairfax County District and Circuit Courts, 2010 – present
