Biography
Robert Kinscherff, Ph.D., Esq. is a forensic psychologist and attorney who currently
serves as the Assistant Commissioner for Forensic Mental Health at the Massachusetts
Department of Mental Health. He has previously served as the Director of Juvenile
Court Clinic Services for the Juvenile Court Department of the Massachusetts
Trial Court and as a Director of Training for the Law and Psychiatry Service
of Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a Designated Forensic Mental Health
Supervisor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
He is also the Director of the Forensic Specialization Track at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and holds teaching faculty appointments for the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Boston University School of Law. He has held previous appointments at Mercy College in New York, the Institute of Social and Behavioral Pathology at the University of Chicago, Deaconess Hospital, Franciscan Children’s Hospital, the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and teaching hospitals through the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School (Children’s, the Judge Baker Children’s Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Cambridge Hospital).
For the American Psychological
Association, he has been a
past two-term Chair of the
Ethics Committee and Chair
of the Committee on Legal Issues.
He has published widely in
areas including juvenile delinquency,
child maltreatment, sexual
offenders, and clinical and
forensic mental health practice
and ethical issues. He is one
of the most sought after speakers
in these areas. Dr. Kinscherff
has served as a consultant
to many public and private
organizations including: the
New Hampshire Department of
Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (Counterterrorism
Division), the Milbank Memorial
Fund, the Connecticut Department
of Mental Health and Addiction
Services (Special Populations
Project), Dartmouth Medical
School Psychiatry Research
Center, and the National Council
of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges. He has also served
on many state and national
governmental and organizational
task forces and commissions
for mental health and the law.
Biography
Paul Duffly, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Boston.
He frequently serves as Guardian ad litem to conduct custody and visitation
evaluations as well as care and protection evaluations, with appointments from
Suffolk, Norfolk, Worcester, Plymouth and Essex Counties in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. He has testified as an expert in these courts, as well as
in state, superior, juvenile, district, and federal courts. He is regularly
invited to lecture to professionals on the assessment of complex substance
abuse issues in custody evaluations and care and protection situations. He
has presented at conferences sponsored by various organizations including:
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Flaschner Judicial Institute, Massachusetts
Trial Court Judicial Institute, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts,
Massachusetts Department of Social Services In-service Training Program, Flaschner
Judicial Institute Children's Justice Act Conference, and the Massachusetts
Psychological Association.
Dr. Duffly currently serves
on the Board of Directors of
the Massachusetts Association
of Guardians ad litem. He was
chief psychologist of the Addictions
Service, as well as consultant
to the Children and the Law
Program, at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. He also served
as the Director of the Drug
Dependence Center at the Veteran’s
Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He had held an academic appointment
at Harvard Medical School.
He is now a consultant with
the Tufts-New England Medical
Center Family Evaluation Center
and is an Assistant Clinical
Professor in the Department
of Pediatrics at Tufts Medical
School.
Biography
Tali K. Walters, Ph.D. is a Designated Forensic Psychologist and Forensic Supervisor
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is also a founding partner in Cambridge
Forensic Consultants, LLC, a forensic mental health provider organization.
She has served as a forensic psychologist at Bridgewater State Hospital, the
maximum-security forensic psychiatric hospital for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
She has also been a psychotherapist in a college counseling setting and rehabilitation
hospital. She has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School and
Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School. She is also on staff
at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.
As a senior forensic psychologist, she consults nationally to criminal attorneys
regarding forensic mental health issues and performs over 125 forensic evaluations
a year. She is a supervising forensic psychologist at the Metro Boston Inpatient
Units at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center in Boston, a 60-bed inpatient
unit for court referred and continuing care patients. She consults with state
psychiatric hospitals on risk assessments and provides emergency psychiatric
intervention for police departments in Massachusetts. Her specialties are in
the areas of criminal responsibility, competency to stand trial, workplace
and individual risk assessments, serial murderers, and ethics. She is also
on the board of the Society of Terrorism Research.
Biography
Renee Sorrentino, M.D. is the Director of the Institute for Sexual Wellness,
Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School and former Director of Forensic
Psychiatry at the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center. She received her medical
degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed a residency
in adult psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital.
Dr. Sorrentino completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship with Phillip Resnick,
M.D. at Case Western Reserve University and a clinical clerkship with John
Bradford, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of sexually
dangerous individuals. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology with added qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry.
Dr. Sorrentino’s practice is devoted to the treatment and evaluation
of paraphilias and sexual offenders as well as the hormonal treatment of paraphilias,
a field in which she is published. She is a highly sought after consultant
to attorneys and social service agencies in the area of sex offending and the
law and has testified in hundreds of cases. She supervises the training and
professional development of psychiatry residents in the Massachusetts General
Hospital/McLean Hospital Residency Training Program.
Biography
David Medoff, Ph.D. holds dual academic appointments as an Associate Professor
and Director of the Graduate Mental Health Counseling Program at Suffolk University
and as an Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard
Medical School. He has also served as both a staff Psychologist, Director of
Training and Co-Director of the Children and the Law Program at the Massachusetts
General Hospital
Dr. Medoff is certified as a Designated Forensic Psychologist and has extensive
experience in both juvenile and adult forensic evaluations including the assessment
of sexual offenders, child abuse and neglect, delinquency, Competency to Stand
Trial, Criminal Responsibility, Aid In Sentencing and Fitness for Duty. His
specialized areas of interest and expertise include the forensic psychological
testing and the forensic evaluation of juvenile sexual offenders. He currently
teaches and supervises at Suffolk University and at the Children and the Law
Program, Harvard Medical School. He is also in a private forensic psychological
assessment and consultation practice.
Dr. Medoff worked for several years at the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic as
a supervising staff psychologist, the Manager of Psychological Testing Services
and the Director of Training. He is a Certified Juvenile Court Clinic Mentor
I and II and has served as a gubernatorial appointee on the Massachusetts Sexual
Offender Registry Board as a Board Member and the Juvenile Specialist. He has
published numerous articles on a wide variety of clinical and forensic topics
including the major psychoses, forensic psychological testing and juvenile
sexual offenders. He has presented numerous professional workshops in the field
of forensic psychology Internationally, Nationally and Regionally.
