Ronald Schouten, M.D.

is the Director of the Law & Psychiatry Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has served as a teacher, consultant to organizations, and expert witness in both civil and criminal matters. Dr. Schouten was with the employment law firm of Dorfman, DeKoven, Cohen & Laner in Chicago before attending medical school. He has combined his legal and medical training to provide teaching and support to a wide variety of groups and individuals. Dr. Schouten has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant in the traditional areas of forensic psychiatry, as well as special expertise in the areas of risk management, sexual harassment and boundary violations, impaired professionals, violence in the workplace, the Americans with Disabilities Act, domestic violence, and organizational consultation. Dr. Schouten has played a key role in the development of a number of innovations in the teaching of forensic mental health issues. These include a grand rounds program on mental health issues for MassachusettsŐ judges, a Harvard Medical School Continuing Education Program held for legal professionals, the Harvard Medical School Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, and numerous teaching programs for the Law & Psychiatry Service and Harvard Medical School. He has served as a consultant and trainer for major corporations in the areas of violence in the workplace and sexual harassment.

Dr. Schouten is Forensic Column editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. He is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with Added Qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry and a Designated Forensic Psychiatrist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is Immediate Past President of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry. Dr. Schouten is licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts and California. (BA: Haverford College, JD: Boston University School of Law, MD: University of Illinois College of Medicine)