Expert Witness/Psychiatry IME (40 years)

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With over 40 years' experience in psychiatry, including decades providing expert witness litigation support, IMEs regarding psychiatric aspects of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial), employment law, and/or injuries/accidents related to Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation issues, Dr. Weiss is well known for her comprehensive, fact-based, persuasive reports. Dr. Weiss' unique ability to establish exceptional rapport with clients allows for thoughtful, thorough examinations, leaving no stone unturned. As everything affects the psyche, her keen attention to detail with complex medical-legal records enables her to integrate highly complex psychiatric histories and concepts, coming to evidence-based opinions, and providing high-caliber, usable medical-legal reporting and testimony. Dr. Weiss has decades of diverse experience, having worked on behalf of the Applicant, the Defendant, and also as an unbiased, Independent Medical Examiner. Able to view a case through multiple lenses, she must consider what has happened prior to, and outside of, an accident/incident, as well as uncovering details of the event(s) itself. As an expert, she must be objective and look at the evidence which has been presented. If there is evidence for psychiatric injury/pain and suffering, her ability to articulate the Applicant's perspective, as well as how she, as the psychiatric expert, would understand it is unparalleled. It is important to consider how a person is functioning, and what is the status of their mental/psychological state. Ultimately, whether Dr. Weiss' findings strengthen her client's case, or help to uncover weaknesses/ deficiencies that need to be addressed, one can be confident that Dr. Weiss will provide a through, detailed psychiatric analysis based on medical evidence. Dr. Weiss is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Board Certified Psychiatrist, in private practice since 1988. Her expert witness work has primarily related to psychiatric and emotional distress claims of injury in terms of harassment (sexual/gender-based/racial) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Her wealth of experience also includes anxiety, depression, and personality disorders. OTHER AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Abuse ADA Discrimination Adult Psychiatry Anxiety Disorders Bereavement/Loss Depression Depressive Disorders Disability (Employment) Disability Issues Discrimination Emotional Damages Emotional Distress Emotional Suffering Employment Discrimination Employment Psychiatry Employment Related Claims Employment Retaliation Harassment Independent Medical Examiner (IME) Mental Health Molestation Occupational Injury Pain & Suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Psychiatric Disability Psychiatric Disorders Psychiatric Evaluations Psychiatric Pain & Suffering Evaluation Psychiatric Personal Injury Psychiatric Trauma Psychiatry Psychiatry & Psychology Psychological Injuries Psychological Trauma Psychology PTSD Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment Trauma Whistleblowing Workplace Injuries Wrongful Termination