Psychiatric Expert Witness
Lawrence G. Wilson, M.D. has been a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry for over 30 years and is an Associate Professor Emeritus. He has been a teacher of medical students and resident doctors, a practitioner and consultant, and a research colleague of other physicians. He has authored or co-authored over 30 articles in refereed journals and 5 book chapters.
Dr. Wilson is board certified in general psychiatry (1975) and forensic psychiatry (1999) by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has served as an examiner for that body in the western United States. He is a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the Seattle Forensic Institute and has presented Continuing Education Programs to attorneys and physicians on suicide, standards of practice, and cultural aspects of mental illness and care.
While a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine, he has served as an expert witness in questions of standard of care in cases of suicide in hospitals, in questions of criminal responsibility, and in questions of competence to stand trial or make wills and other legal documents. He has served on both plaintiff's and defense sides on these questions.
Dr. Wilson served on the ethics committee of his hospital for 18 years since its inception in 1988 and was on the ethics committee of the Washington State Psychiatric Association from 1994-2000. His post-graduate training in psychiatry was at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
Dr. Wilson earned his B.A. degree in history and premed in 1962 from the University of Kansas in Lawrence and his M.D. in 1966 from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas.
His expertise is in the following:
- Questions of standard of care in suicide
- Case review and consultation with attorneys and physicians
- Criminal Responsibility
- Standard of care in outpatient practice, psychiatric units in general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals
- Personal injury in psychiatric practice
- Expert witness in proper psychiatric diagnosis and treatment
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