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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. 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.

Dr. Nicole R. Johnson is the Director for the Office of Forensic Services for the DC Department of Behavioral Health. The Office of Forensic Services provides complex and diverse mental health services for individuals involved in the criminal justice system. This office includes forensic inpatient services through Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Jail and Prison Re-Entry programs, Competency to Stand Trial Restoration and Evaluations, Court ordered evaluations, oversight for civilly committed individuals and Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity Acquitee monitoring and treatment.

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.