30+
YEARS OF PRACTICE
10,000+
REPORTS RENDERING OPINIONS
5000+
PATIENTS TREATED
200+
DEPOSITION TESTIMONY
300+
COURT TESTIMONY
FORENSIC PRACTICE
Dr Suzanne Dupée, M.D.
Dr. Dupée has consulted and provided critical input for cases from inception to trial.
- Triple Board Certified Adult, Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist
- Retained by defense and plaintiff attorneys
- Court appointments
- Only psychiatrist on Approved List of Child Custody Evaluator Panel for Los Angeles Superior Court
- Los Angeles Superior Court Expert Witness panels: Criminal, Dependency, Juvenile, & Family Law
- Extensive experience testifying in depositions and trials
- Consulting experience
- Clinical expertise in psychiatry, adult, child & adolescent
- Testified in multiple states
- Testified in Federal Courts in multiple states
Dr suzanne Dupée, M.D.
Dr. Dupée has consulted and provided critical input into cases from inception
to trial.
- Triple Board Certified Adult, Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist
- Retained by defense and plaintiff attorneys
- Only psychiatrist on Approved List of Child Custody Evaluator Panel for Los Angeles Superior Court
- Extensive experience testifying in depositions and trials
- Consulting experience
- Clinical expertise in psychiatry, adult, child & adolescent
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Areas of expertise in Forensic Psychiatry
What is a forensic psychiatrist?
This is the most common question I am asked. Forensic psychiatry is the interface between psychiatry and the law.
Civil Law
- Assessment of emotional damages
- Sexual abuse
- Personal injury
- Child sexual abuse
Employment Law
- Sexual harassment
- Wrongful termination
- Discrimination-racial, gender, age
- Retaliation
- Hostile workplace
- Fitness for Duty
- Threat assessment
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Disability
- Insurance disability claims
- Social security disability claims
- Veteran’s Adminisration claims
Criminal Law
- Insanity evaluations/criminal responsibility/insanity defense
- Criminal competency
- Psychiatric evaluations for mitigation
- Death penalty mitigation
- Consultation for prosecutors and defense
Malpractice
- Wrongful death from suicide
- Psychopharmacology malpractice
Family Law
- Child custody evaluations
- Psychiatric evaluations of family law litigants
- Consultation
- Adult child support evaluations
- Child custody evaluations
- Psychiatric evaluations of family law litigants
- Consultation
Dependency/Child Abuse
- Psychiatric evaluations of parents
- Psychiatric evaluations of children
- Child abuse evaluations
