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Dr. Haar is an emergency physician with expertise in health and human rights. Her work focuses on the protection of human rights in times of complex humanitarian crisis and conflict. She is particularly interested in the protection of health workers and health services.

She is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and a research fellow at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. She is also an emergency medicine physician in Oakland, CA.

Dr. Johnson is a board certified general and forensic psychiatrist licensed in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Howard University, Howard University College of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences residency program where he served as the Administrative Chief Resident during his final year, and the St. Elizabeths Hospital forensic psychiatry fellowship program. Dr. Johnson also holds the honor of being a Jeanne Spurlock American Psychiatric Association Congressional Fellow where he worked in the U.S.

Dr. Penn has performed numerous civil, criminal, and other independent psychiatric evaluations of children, adolescents, adults, and has been qualified and testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts. He has served as a consultant regarding correctional and non-correctional mental health care delivery and standards of care. He has presented on law and psychiatry issues, including seclusion and restraint, use of psychotropic medications, access to mental health care in correctional settings, suicide prevention, and prediction of future violence.

An internationally recognized leader in the integration of neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and neuropsychology, his research interests include the cognitive and behavioral consequences of neurologic and psychiatric diseases, brain dysfunction in violent and criminal behavior, frontal lobe functions including insight, judgment, empathy, self-awareness, social adaptation, memory disorders and and dementias, complex decision-making, fraud, and undue influence. 

Dr. Edersheim has performed a wide variety of forensic evaluations in both civil and criminal settings, including evaluations of competencies to stand trial, testamentary capacity, the capacity to make medical decisions, fitness for duty, the assessment of emotional damages, diminished capacity and criminal responsibility. She is a principal lecturer in the forensic psychiatry fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches forensic psychiatry to adult psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals.  Dr.

He was a contributor to the amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court by the American Psychological Association (APA) in Roper v. Simmons (2005) and has been involved in bringing science to juvenile and criminal justice reform since that time. As a Fellow of the APA, Dr. Kinscherff’s service has included Chair of the Ethics Committee, Chair of the Committee on Legal Issues, and Board of Professional Affairs.