Thomas G. Gutheil

Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, where he is Assistant Director of Medical Student Training and Co-Founder of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law. One of the world's leading forensic psychiatrists, he is a past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and current president of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. Dr. Gutheil is coauthor of the widely used Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law, which won the American Psychiatric Association's Manfred S. Guttmacher Award (an award Dr. Gutheil has shared three times). His numerous other awards and honors include the American Psychiatric Association's 2000 Isaac Ray Award for outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry. The author of more than 250 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Gutheil lectures worldwide and is regularly consulted by attorneys, licensing boards, and institutions on boundary questions, risk management, and malpractice prevention.