College of Law

Courses

• Mental Health Law

Awards

• 2008 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award
• 2008 Career Achievement Award, WSU Department of Psychiatry
• 2008 Chair's Recognition Award, WSU Department of Psychiatry
• 2006 Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• 2005 Best Doctors in America
• 2004 Who's Who in the Midwest
• 2001 Faculty Recognition Award, WSU Department of Psychiatry
• 1998 Chair's Recognition Award, WSU Department of Psychiatry
• 1990 Mental Health Media Award, Ohio Mental Health Association
• 1986 Maurice Levine Essay Award (2nd Prize)
• 1985 Maurice Levine Essay Award (1st Prize)
• 1984 Maurice Levine Essay Award (1st Prize)
• 1972 National Merit Scholar

November 2011

Doug attended the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-30, and was elected Treasurer of the organization. He made the following presentations at the meeting:

• “Selling Meds for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, (Oct. 28, 2011) (with S. C. Sanderson, 2011 UC College of Law grad and a former Weaver fellow);
• “How I Became a Researcher: Career Trajectories.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, (Oct. 29, 2011) (with S. Yang, P. Candilis, S. Hatters-Friedman, & R. Trestman); and
• “Wild Child? Assessing Risk of Pediatric Inpatient Aggression.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, (Oct. 30, 2011) (D. Barzman).

Several of Doug’s articles were cited: 

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Reena Kapoor, et al., Ethics in Forensic Psychiatry Publishing, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 332 (2011);
• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Alan R. Felthous, Commentary: Competence to Stand Trial in Juveniles and the Judgment Model, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 327 (2011);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate About Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychol. 783 (1994), in Craig J. Bryan, The Clinical Utility of a Brief Measure of Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness for the Detection of Suicidal Military Personnel, 67 J. Clinical Psychol. 981 (2011);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate About Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychol. 783 (1994), in Yuan Y. Liu, et al., A Comparison of Logistic Regression, Classification and Regression Tree, and Neural Networks Models in Predicting Violent Re-Offending, 27 J. Quantitative Criminology 547 (2011);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychol. 783 (1994), in Annie H. Nguyen, et al., Freedom in Paradise: Quality of Conditional Release Reports Submitted to the Hawaii Judiciary, 34 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 341 (2011);
• Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms, 33 N.M. L. Rev. 255 (2003), in Peggy M. Tobolowsky, Different Path Taken: Texas Capital Offenders' Post-Atkins Claims of Mental Retardation, 39 Hastings Const. L.Q. 1 (2011);
• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Bob Green, Andrew Carroll, & Adam Brett, Risk Assessment and Resource Allocation, 19 Australasian Psychiatry 448 (2011);
• "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute 27 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Susan Hatters Friedman, Reel Forensic Experts: Forensic Psychiatrists as Portrayed on Screen, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 412 (2011);
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: A Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in Guofen Yan & Tom Greene, Statistical Analysis and Design for Estimating Accuracy in Clinical-Center Classification of Cause-Specific Clinical Events in Clinical Trials, 8 Clinical Trials 571 (2011);
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information from the Dexamethasone Suppression Test: An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Mark Zimmerman, et al., Are Screening Scales for Bipolar Disorder Good Enough to be Used in Clinical Practice? 52 Comprehensive Psychiatry 600 (2011);
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Lori H. Colwell & Julie Gianesini, Demographic, Criminogenic, and Psychiatric Factors that Predict Competency Restoration, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 297 (2011); 
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Patricia A. Zapf & Ronald Roesch, Future Directions in the Restoration of Competency to Stand Trial, 20 Current Directions Psychol. Sci. 43 (2011); and
• Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard,” L. & Hum. Behavior (2009), (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay,William M. Klykylo, & Douglas S. Lehrer), in Annie H. Nguyen, et al., Freedom in Paradise: Quality of Conditional Release Reports Submitted to the Hawaii Judiciary, 34 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 341 (2011).

October 2011

Doug attended the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law in Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-30, and was elected Treasurer of the organization. He made the following presentations at the meeting: 

• “Selling Meds for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Boston, Massachusetts, October 28 (with Sanderson SC (who is a 2011 UC College of Law grad and a former Weaver fellow.);
  
• “How I Became a Researcher: Career Trajectories.”   Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Boston, Massachusetts, October 29 (with Yang S, Candilis P, Hatters-Friedman S,  & Trestman R);
  
• “Wild Child? Assessing Risk of Pediatric Inpatient Aggression.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30.

Two of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Craig J. Bryan, The Clinical Utility of a Brief Measure of Perceived Burdensomeness and Thwarted Belongingness for the Detection of Suicidal Military Personnel, 67 J. Clin. Psychol. 981 (2011); and
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Ronaldo C. Prati, et al., A Survey on Graphical Methods for Classification Predictive Performance Evaluation, 23 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 1601 (2011).

September 2011

Doug published Physician Impairment: When Should You Report?, 10 Current Psychiatry 67 (2011) (with Helen M. Farrell).

He completed two articles:

• Estimating the Accuracy of Neurocognitive Effort Measures in the Absence of a "Gold Standard" (with Dustin B. Wygant & Roger O. Gervais); and

• Practicing Psychiatry via Skype: Medicolegal Considerations (with Helen M. Farrell).

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Martin Rettenberger, Douglas P. Boer, & Reinhard Eher, The Predictive Accuracy of Risk Factors in the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20),38 Crim. Just. & Behav. 1009 (2011);

• Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error', 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007) in James Vess, Ethical Practice in Sex Offender Assessment: Consideration of Actuarial and Polygraph Methods, 23 Sexual Abuse- J. Res. & Treatment 381 (2011); and

• ROC Curves and The Binormal Assumption, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosci. 436 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Geetha Kumar, Justin Faden, & Robert A. Steer, Screening for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adult Inpatients with Psychiatric Disorders, 108 Psychol. Rep. 815 (2011).

Summer 2011

In May, Doug presented, "Selling Meds for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge or, Is this worth turning into a law review article?" as part of the College’s Summer 2011 Faculty Workshop series.  

Doug completed two articles and a book chapter:

Estimating Accuracy of Neurocognitive Effort Measures in the Absence of a “Gold Standard,” (with Dustin B. Wygant, & Roger O. Gervais);

• Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): A Reliability Study, (with  Drew Barzman, Loretta Sonnier, & Michael Sorter); and

• Civil Commitment, to appear in Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law: A Handbook for Lawyers (Ronald Roesch & Patricia A. Zapf, eds.).

He published two articles:

Brief Rating Of Aggression By Children And Adolescents (BRACHA): Development Of A Tool To Assess Risk Of Inpatients’ Aggressive Behavior, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 170 (2011) (with D. Barzman, L. Brackenbury, L. Sonnier, B. Schnell, A. Cassedy, S. Salisbury, & M. Sorter); and

• Should You Prescribe Medications For Family And Friends?  10 Current Psychiatry 41 (2011) (with H. M. Farrell & E. Gilday).

Doug made several presentations:

The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 19, 2011;

• Understanding and Assessing ‘Legal Insanity’.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, May 26, 2011;

• Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 2, 2011;

• Risk Assessment.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 9, 2011;

• Mitigation and Nature versus Nurture.  Lincoln College of Technology, Florence, Kentucky, June 15, 2011;

• Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 16, 2011; and

• Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation.  Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 23, 2011.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Christopher J.  Ferguson, A Further Plea for Caution Against Medical Professionals Overstating Video Game Violence Effects, 86 Mayo Clin. Proc. 820 ( 2011 );

• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Tamara Rice Lave, Controlling Sexually Violent Predators: Continued Incarceration At What Cost? 14 New Crim. L. Rev. 213 (2011);

• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Brian R. Abbott, Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water: Is It Time for Clinical Judgment to Supplement Actuarial Risk Assessment?, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 222 (2011);

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Mark R. McGowan, Robert A. Horn, & Ramona N. Mellott, The Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth in Secondary Educational Settings, 23 Psych. Assessment 478 (2011);

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Joakim Sturup, Marianne Kristiansson, & Per Lindqvist, Violent Behaviour By General Psychiatric Patients In Sweden - Validation Of Classification Of Violence Risk (COVR) Software, 188 Psychiatry Res. 161 (2011);

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in John G. McCabe & Daniel A. Krauss,  The Effect of Acknowledging Mock Jurors' Feelings on Affective and Cognitive Biases: It Depends on the Sample, 29 Behav. Sci. Law 331 (2011);

• Comparing and Optimizing Diagnostic-tests - an Information-theoretical Approach, 12 Med. Decis. Making 179 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Drew H. Barzman, et al., Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): Development of a Tool for Assessing Risk of Inpatients' Aggressive Behavior,39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L 170 (2011);

• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in Natalie Rigaux, Autonomy and Dementia Part I: Propositions For a "Dementia Friendly" Conception, 9 Psychol. & Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement 107 (2011);

• ROC Curves and The Binormal Assumption, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosci. 436 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Geetha Kumar, Justin Faden, & Robert A. Steer, Screening For Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Adult Inpatients With Psychiatric Disorders, 108 Psychol. Rep. 815 (2011);

• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in R. Nicholas Carleton, et al., Addressing Revisions To The Brief Fear Of Negative Evaluation Scale: Measuring Fear Of Negative Evaluation Across Anxiety And Mood Disorders, 25 J. of Anxiety Disorders 822 (2011);

• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Zheyu Wang, Xiao-Hua Zhou, & Miqu Wang, Evaluation Of Diagnostic Accuracy In Detecting Ordered Symptom Statuses Without A Gold Standard, 12 Biostat. 567 (2011);

• United States v. Lyons: Toward a New Conception of Legal Insanity, 16 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 49 (1988), in Stephen J. Morse, Mental Disorder And Criminal Law, 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 885 (2011); and

• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Paul P. Christopher, et al., Evaluating Psychiatric Disability: Differences by Forensic Expertise, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 183 (2011).

May 2011

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Odd to Do, 84 St. John’s L. Rev. 117 (2010) (with Amanda N. Shoemaker), was cited in Annotated Legal Bibliography on Gender, 17 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 717 (2011);

Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), was cited in Karin Arbach-Lucioni, et al.,Predicting Violence In Psychiatric Inpatients: A Prospective Study With The HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme, 22 J. Forensic . Psychiatry & Psychol. 203 (2011);

Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), was cited in Calvin M. Langton, et al.,Personality Traits as Predictors of Inpatient Aggression in a High-Security Forensic Psychiatric Setting: Prospective Evaluation of the PCL-R and IPDE Dimension Ratings, 55 Int’l J. Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 392 (2011);

Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), was cited in Erica Bowen, An Overview of Partner Violence Risk Assessment and the Potential Role of Female Victim Risk Appraisals, 16 Aggression & Violent Behav. 214 (2011); and

Potential HIV Exposure In Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Adolescent Girls, 148 Am. J. Psychiatry 528 (1991) was cited in J. Ngwena, HIV/AIDS Awareness in Those Diagnosed with Mental Illness, 18 J. Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 213 (2011).

April 2011

Doug received a $10,000 grant from the UC Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training to support his research on developing a “proper” receiver operating characteristic (ROC) model.  ROC analysis is a key tool for evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic systems and detection instruments, including the forensic assessment instruments that mental health professionals use to provide information to courts.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• ·  Assessing Improvements In The Dexamethasone Suppression Test Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 25 Biological Psychiatry 159 (1989), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Jay P. Singh, Martin Grann, & Seena Fazel, A Comparative Study Of Violence Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review And Metaregression Analysis Of 68 Studies Involving 25,980 Participants, 31 Clin. Psychol. Rev. 499 (2011);

• ·  Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994, in Lisa J. Warren, Paul E. Mullen, & James R. P. Ogloff, A Clinical Study of Those Who Utter Threats to Kill, 29 Behav. Sci. & L. 141 Sp. Iss. SI Mar-Apr (2011);

• Commentary: Assessing the Risk of Violence - Are "Accurate" Predictions Useful? 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 272 (2000), in Jay P. Singh, Martin Grann, & Seena Fazel, A Comparative Study Of Violence Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review And Metaregression Analysis Of 68 Studies Involving 25,980 Participants, 31 Clin. Psychol. Rev. 499 (2011);

• ·  Comparing Diagnostic Tests Using Information Theory: The "INFO-ROC Technique, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 214 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Matthew M. Large, et al., The Predictive Value of Risk Categorization in Schizophrenia, 19 Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 25 (2011);
• ·  Evaluation and Optimization of Diagnostic Tests Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis and Information Theory, 24 Int’l J. Biomedical Computing 153 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza & Luis Soutullo-Esperon), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory,41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Diagnostic-tests and Information-theory, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci., 95 (1992), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Further Comments On Portraying The Accuracy Of Violence Predictions, 18 Law & Hum. Behav. 587 (1994), in Carolyn J. Tompsett, Sarah Domoff, & Paul Boxer, Prediction of Restraints Among Youth in a Psychiatric Hospital: Application of Translational Action Research, 67 J. Clin. Psychol. 368 (2011);
• ·  The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009), in Matthew M. Large, et al., The Predictive Value of Risk Categorization in Schizophrenia, 19 Harv. Rev. Psychiatry 25 (2011);
• ·  Maximizing Diagnostic Information From the Dexamethasone Suppression Test An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y L. 73 (1996), in P. Randall Kropp, et al., The Development and Validation of the Guidelines for Stalking Assessment and Management, 29 Behav. Sci. &  L.  302 Sp. Iss. SI Mar-Apr (2011);

• ·  Optimizing REM Latency As A Diagnostic-Test For Depression Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis And Information-Theory, 27 Biological Psychiatry 990 (1990), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011);
• ·  Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Gianni Pirelli, William H. Gottdiener, & Patricia A. Zapf, A Meta-Analytic Review Of Competency To Stand Trial Research, 17 Psych. Pub. Pol’y & L. 1 (2011);
• ·  Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Mariano J. Taverna, et al., Lipid Accumulation Product: A Powerful Marker Of Metabolic Syndrome In Healthy Population, 164 Eur. J. Endocrinology 559 (2011);
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011); and
• ·  ROC Curves and The Binormal Assumption, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosci. 436 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Umut Arslan, et al., Evaluation Of GDx Parameters By Using Information Theory, 41 Turkish J. Med. Sci. 117 (2011).

March 2011

Doug completed a new paper, Selling Meds for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge, with Weaver Fellow, Sarah C. Sanderson.

Doug’s article, co-authored with Helen M. Farrell and Elizabeth Gilday, Casual Prescribing: Medications For Family And Friends, was accepted for publication in Current Psychiatry.

Doug’s article, co-authored with Purganan and Christopher White, 'Boxed In’ Or ‘Boxed Out’? Prescribing Atypicals For Dementia, 10 Current Psychiatry 77 (2011), is now in print.

Doug made the following presentations:

•        Legal ‘Insanity.' Presentation to Behavioral Genetics class (Prof. Stephanie Rollmann), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Mar. 11, 2011; 

•        Selling Medications for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge, Lecture Series, Summit Behavioral Healthcare, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 14, 2011 (1 hr CME);

•        Ordinary Therapy or ‘Chemical Straitjacket': When Courts Make Forced Medication a Tough Sell, Presented at the Weaver Institute's symposium on Taking Drugs, Doing Drugs, Refusing Drugs: Neuroscience, Psychoactive Compounds, and the Law, UC College of Law, Mar. 16, 2011 (1 hr CLE); and

•        Competence to Divorce, Annual Meeting, Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, Mar. 26, 2008 (1 hr CME).

Doug organized and attended The Weaver Institute’s symposium, Taking Drugs, Doing Drugs, Refusing Drugs: Neuroscience, Psychoactive Compounds, and the Law at the College.  He also attended the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Cleveland, Ohio.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

•        AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J.  Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in James L. Knoll, et al., A Pilot Survey of Trial Court Judges' Opinions on Pro Se Competence After Indiana v. Edwards,  38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 536 (2010) and, in Richard J. Bonnie, Howard Zonana and the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 570 (2010);

•        Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Suzanne Fitzgerald, et al., Risk Factors For Recidivism In Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities, 17 Psychol. Crime & L. (Part 1 Sp. Iss. SI)43 (2011); in Joseph A. Camilleri & Vernon L. Quinsey, Appraising The Risk Of Sexual And Violent Recidivism Among Intellectually Disabled Offenders, 17 Psychol. Crime & L. (Part 1 Sp. Iss. SI) 59 (2011); in Janine Blacker, et al., The Assessment Of Dynamic Risk And Recidivism In A Sample Of Special Needs Sexual Offenders, 17 Psychol. Crime & L. (Part 1 Sp. Iss. SI) 75 (2011); and, in Claudia E. Van Der Put, et al., Changes In Risk Factors During Adolescence Implications For Risk Assessment, 38 Crim. Just. & Behav.  248 (2011);

•        Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Matthew F. Soulier, Andrea Maislen, & James C. Beck, Status of the Psychiatric Duty to Protect, Circa 2006, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 457 (2010);

•        "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute 27 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Olav Nielssen, Gordon Elliott, & Matthew Large, The Reliability of Evidence About Psychiatric Diagnosis After Serious Crime: Part I. Agreement Between Experts, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 516 (2010); in Olav Nielssen, Gordon Elliott, & Matthew Large, The Reliability of Evidence About Psychiatric Diagnosis After Serious Crime: Part II. Agreement Between Experts, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 524 (2010); and, in Raymond F. Patterson, Commentary: The Problem of Agreement on Diagnoses in Criminal Cases, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 531 (2010);

•        Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, & Raghu N. Kacker, Measures, Uncertainties, and Significance Test in Operational ROC Analysis, 116 J. Res. Nat’l Inst. Standards & Tech. 517  (2011);

•        ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Jean-Pierre Lindenmayer, A Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel-Group, Fixed-Dose, Clinical Trial of Quetiapine at 600 Versus 1200 mg/d for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder, 31 J. Clinical Psychopharmacology 160 (2011); and

•        Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism,  47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D. Sanders), in Anne-Marit Langas, Ulrik F. Malt, & Stein Opjordsmoen, Comorbid Mental Disorders In Substance Users From A Single Catchment Area - A Clinical Study, 11 BMC Psychiatry Art. No. 25 (Feb. 12, 2011).

February 2011

Several of Doug’s publications were cited:

·    Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Genevieve Parent, Jean-Pierre Guay, & Raymond A. Knight, An Assessment Of Long-Term Risk Of Recidivism By Adult Sex Offenders: One Size Doesn't Fit All, 38 Crim. Just. & Behav. 188 (2011);

 ·   Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness, and the Myth of Psychiatric Abandonment: A Structural Anthropology Perspective, 44 Soc. Sci. & Med. 71 (1997), in Jason Adam Wasserman &  Jeffrey Michael Clair, Housing Patterns of Homeless People: The Ecology of the Street in the Era of Urban Renewal, 40 J. Contemp. Ethnography 71(2011); and

·    Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Y. Foucher, et al. Time-Dependent ROC Analysis For A Three-Class Prognostic With Application To Kidney Transplantation, 29 Stat. Med. 3079 Sp. Iss. SI (Dec. 30 2010).

January 2011

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods. 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in Pei Liu, et al., Evaluation Of 30 Commercial Assays For The Detection Of Antibodies To HIV In China Using Classical And Bayesian Statistics, 170 J. of Virological Methods 73 (2010);
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Jin Chu Wu, et al. Significance Test in Operational ROC Analysis, Biometric Technology For Human Identification VII 7667: Art. No. 7667-33 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Mark E. Oxley, Christine M. Schubert, & Steven N. Thorsen, Confidence of a ROC Manifold, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, And Target Recognition XIX, 7697 (2010); and
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Frey, Binary ROC Curve and Three-class 2-D ROC Surface, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Perception, Observer Performance, And Technology Assessment 7627 (2010).

December 2010

The Glen M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry, of which Doug is the Director, and the Center for Practice sponsored the CLE, Client Troubles: It's Time for a Psychiatrist's Advice, on Friday, Dec. 17.  The course was taught by Doug and Center for Practice Director Marjorie Aaron.

Doug was quoted in What Causes Such Sudden Outbursts? Cincinnati Enquirer, Dec. 5, at B3.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J.  Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Jeffrey J. Haun, Julie A. Gallagher, & Adam A. Milz, The Influence of Time and Treatment on Recall of Mental State at the Time of Offense: Incompetent Defendants and Evaluation of Insanity, 10 J. of Forensic Psychol. Prac. 464 (2010);
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Georgia D. Barnett, Helen C. Wakeling, & Philip D. Howard,  An Examination of the Predictive Validity of the Risk Matrix 2000 in England and Wales, 22 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 443 (2010); and in Richard Wollert, Recent Research (N=9,305) Underscores the Importance of Using Age-Stratified Actuarial Tables in Sex Offender Risk Assessments, 22 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 471 (2010);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Martin Rettenberger, et al. The Development Of A Screening Scale For The Prediction Of Violent Offender Recidivism, 93 Monatsschrift fur Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform [Monthly Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law] 346 (2010); and
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Ben Van Calster, et al., Polytomous Diagnosis Of Ovarian Tumors As Benign, Borderline, Primary Invasive Or Metastatic: Development And Validation Of Standard And Kernel-Based Risk Prediction Models, 10 BMC Med. Res. Methodology Art. No. 96 Oct. 20, 2010; and in Handan Ankarali, Cut-Off Values For EEG Frequency in Differentiation of Alzheimer, Non-Alzheimer Dementia and Healthy Subjects: An Application of 3D-ROC Surface Method, 27Trakya Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Dergisi 281 (2010).

November 2010

Doug published two pieces:

     1.) Counseling the Client With Character Pathology, CBA Report, Nov. 2010, at 9. 

     2.) “Firing” A Patient: May a Psychiatrist Unilaterally Terminate Care? 9 Current Psychiatry 18 (2010) (with Helen Farrell, & Elizabeth Gilday).

Doug presented Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking up Is Odd to Do, at Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Several of Doug’s publications were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J.  Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Daniel W. Shuman & John A. Zervopoulos, Empathy or Objectivity: The Forensic Examiner's Dilemma? 28 Behav. Sci. & the Law 585 (2010); in Annette Christy, et al., Factors Affecting Jail Detention of Defendants Adjudicated Incompetent to Proceed, 28 Behav. Sci. & the Law 707 (2010); and in Sanja Radeljak, et al., Neuroimaging Techniques in Modern Forensic Psychiatry, 34 Collegium Antropologicum 287 (Suppl. 2 Apr 2010);
• Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), 32 L. & Hum. Behav. 279 (2008), in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Gabriele Vojt, Lisa A. Marshall, & Lindsay D. G. Thomson, The Assessment of Imminent Inpatient Aggression: A Validation Study of the DASA-IV in Scotland, 21 J. of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 789 (2010); in Andrea J. Adimando, Yann B. Poncin, & Carl R. Baum, Pharmacological Management of the Agitated Pediatric Patient, 26 Pediatric Emergency Care 856 (2010); and in Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, Marlynn H. Wei, & Judith G. Edersheim,  An Approach to the Patient in Crisis: Assessments of the Risk of Suicide and Violence, 94 Med. Clinics of N. Am. 1089 (2010);
• Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error' , 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007), in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010);
• Balancing Risks And Benefits: Another Approach To Optimizing Diagnostic Tests, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosci. 331 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010);
• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Christopher Ryan, et al., Clinical Decisions In Psychiatry Should Not Be Based On Risk Assessment, 18 Australasian Psychiatry 398 (2010), and in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010);
• The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009), in Christopher Ryan, et al., Clinical Decisions In Psychiatry Should Not Be Based On Risk Assessment, 18 Australasian Psychiatry 398 (2010);
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: A Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010);
• Malpractice and the Psychiatrist: A Primer for Residents, 21 Acad. Psychiatry 11 (1997), in Jodi L. Viljoen, et al., Defense Attorneys' Concerns about the Competence of Adolescent Defendants, 28 Behav. Sci. & the Law 630 (2010);
• Presenting Evidence Of Malingering To Courts: Insights From Decision Theory, 14 Behav. Sci. & L. 271 (1996) (with Kathleen J. Hart), in Andreas Mokros, et al., Assessment Of Risk For Violent Recidivism Through Multivariate Bayesian Classification, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 418 (2010); and
• Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis , 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Michaela P. Sewall, Pushing Execution Over The Constitutional Line: Forcible Medication Of Condemned Inmates And The Eighth And Fourteenth Amendments, 51 B.C. L. Rev. 1279 (2010).

October 2010

Doug completed a book manuscript, Evaluation for Civil Commitment (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (with Debra A. Pinals).

Doug completed an article, “Firing” A Patient: May a Psychiatrist Unilaterally Terminate Care? 9 Current Psychiatry ___ (forthcoming 2010) (with Helen Farrell, & Elizabeth Gilday).

Doug made several presentations:

• Incompetence to Divorce: When Breaking up Is Odd to Do. Keynote address, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Section of Forensic Psychiatry, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, Oct. 13, 2010;
• Accuracy of Assessments of Fitness to Stand Trial. Keynote address, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Section of Forensic Psychiatry, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, Oct. 14, 2010;
• Understanding What Risk Assessments Do.  One-day workshop, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Section of Forensic Psychiatry, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, Oct. 15, 2010;
• Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (with D. Barzman & L. Sonnier),  Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 22, 2010; and
• Relevance of Actuarial Assessment for Mental Health Commitment (with A. H. Schwartz), Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 23, 2010.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J.  Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Gwen A. Levitt, et al., Civil Commitment Outcomes of Incompetent Defendants, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 349 (2010);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Laura S. Guy, Kevin S. Douglas, & Melissa C. Hendry, The Role Of Psychopathic Personality Disorder In Violence Risk Assessments Using The HCR-20, 24 J. Personality Disorders 551 (2010);
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009), in Lawrence G. Cetrulo, Toxic Torts Litigation Guide (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2010 Supp.), and in Charles S. Zimmerman, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation (Thomson West, 2010 Supp.)
• The Psychiatrist and Execution Competency: Fording Murky Ethical Waters, 43 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1 (1992), in Henry F. Fradella, From the Legal Literature: Competing Views on the Quagmire of Synthetically Restoring Competency to Be Executed, 41 No. 4 Crim. L. Bull. ART 8 (2005);
• Spotting Unreliable and Inaccurate Expert Testimony in Auto Injury Litigation; What Every Lawyer Needs to Know about Pre-Test Probabilities (with Michael D. Freeman), in Litigating Minor Impact Soft Tissue Cases (Karen Koehler & Michael D. Freeman, eds., Thomson/West, 2010 Supp.); and
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Lili Tian, et al., Exact Confidence Interval Estimation for the Difference in Diagnostic Accuracy with Three Ordinal Diagnostic Groups, 141 J. Stat. Plan. & Inference 549 (2011).

September 2010

Doug published the following articles:

• Successfully Navigating The 15-Minute ‘Med Check.’ 9 Current Psychiatry 40 (2010);
• Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Odd to Do, 84 St. John’s L. Rev. 117 (2010) (with Amanda Shoemaker’s (Weaver Fellow – UC Law Class of 2009)); and
• Should You Restrain Yourself From Ordering Restraints? 9 Current Psychiatry 36 (2010).

Doug’s article, Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): Development of a Tool to Assess Risk of Inpatients’ Aggressive Behavior (with Barzman D, Brackenbury L, Sonnier L, Schnell B, Cassedy A, Salisbury S, Sorter M), was  accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (forthcoming).

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Gordana Rajlic & Heather M. Gretton, An Examination Of Two Sexual Recidivism Risk Measures In Adolescent Offenders The Moderating Effect Of Offender Type, 37 Crim. Just. & Behav. 1066 (2010); 
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information From the Dexamethasone Suppression Test: An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Mark Zimmerman, et al., Performance Of The Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale In Psychiatric Outpatients, 12 Bipolar Disorders 528 (2010);  
• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a "Capacimeter,"  2 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 73 (1996) (with Marshall B. Kapp), in Carol J. Whitlatch & Heather L. Menne, Don't Forget About Me! Decision Making by People with Dementia, 33 Generations-J. of the Am. Soc’y on Aging 66 (2009); and  
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Rafiul Hassan, et al., A Novel Scalable Multi-class ROC for Effective Visualization and Computation, 6118 Advances in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Pt I, Proc. 107 (2010).

Doug was quoted in Closing Arguments Expected in Strangulation Case, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 25, 2010.

Summer 2010

Several of Doug’s publications were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J.  Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Kirk Heilbrun & Stephanie Brooks, Forensic Psychology and Forensic Science: A Proposed Agenda for the Next Decade, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & Law 219 (2010);
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse – J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Leam A. Craig & Anthony R. Beech, Towards a Guide to Best Practice in Conducting Actuarial Risk Assessments with Sex Offenders, 15 Aggression &Violent Behav. 278 (2010);
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Charlotte Rennie & Mairead Dolan, Predictive Validity of the Youth Level of Service/case Management Inventory in Custody Sample in England, 21 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 407 (2010); in John Olav Roaldset & Stal Bjorkly, Patients' Own Statements of Their Future Risk for Violent and Self-harm Behaviour: a Prospective Inpatient and Post-discharge Follow-up Study in an Acute Psychiatric Unit, 178 Psychiatry Res. 153 (2010); Rob H. S. van den Brink, et al., Routine Violence Risk Assessment in Community Forensic Mental Healthcare, 28 Behav. Sci. & L. 396 (2010); in Andrej Koenig, Usefulness and Practicality of Structured Risk Assessment Instruments in Forensic Psychiatry, 28 Recht & Psychiatrie 67 (2010); and in Eric B. Elbogen, et al., Improving Risk Assessment of Violence among Military Veterans: an Evidence-based Approach for Clinical Decision-making, 30 Clinical Psychol. Rev. 595 (2010);
• Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error' , 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007), in Caleb D. Lloyd, Heather J. Clark, & Adelle E. Forth, Psychopathy, Expert Testimony, and Indeterminate Sentences: Exploring the Relationship Between Psychopathy Checklist-revised Testimony and Trial Outcome in Canada, 15 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 323 (2010);
• "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute 27 J. Am.. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Caleb D. Lloyd, Heather J. Clark, & Adelle E. Forth, Psychopathy, Expert Testimony, and Indeterminate Sentences: Exploring the Relationship Between Psychopathy Checklist-revised Testimony and Trial Outcome in Canada, 15 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 323 (2010);
• How a Rabbi’s Sermon Resolved My Tarasoff Conflict. 32 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 359 (2004), in Jeffrey Carlisle & Ann T. Neulicht, The Necessity of Professional Disclosure and Informed Consent for Rehabilitation Counselors, 53 Rehabilitation Couns. Bull. 218 (2010);
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods. 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in Stijn M. Bierman, Between-year Variability in the Mixing of North Sea Herring Spawning Components Leads to Pronounced Variation in the Composition of the Catch, 67 ICES J. of Marine Sci. 885 (2010);
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Nazan Bilgel & Nuran Bayram, Turkish Version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-42): Psychometric Properties, 47 Noropsikiyatri Arsivi-archives of Neuropsychiatry 118 (2010);
• Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism.  47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D Sanders), in Ellen Hoxmark, Mary Nivison, & Rolf Wynn, Predictors of Mental Distress among Substance Abusers Receiving Inpatient Treatment, 5 Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention & Pol’y art. No. 15 (2010); and
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Gail Poyner, Psychological Evaluations of Veterans Claiming PTSD Disability with the Department of Veterans Affairs: A Clinician's Viewpoint, 3 Psychol. Inj. & L. 130 (2010).

June 2010

Doug published Understanding Risk Assessment Instruments, in The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry, 563-586 (Robert I. Simon & Liza H. Gold, eds. 2d ed. 2010). Several of his articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007) (with D. Girogi-Guarnieri), in Jeffrey L. Metzner & Peter Ash, Commentary: The Mental Status Examination in the Age of the Internet-Challenges and Opportunities, 38 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 27 (2010).
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in R. Karl Hanson, et al., Predicting Recidivism amongst Sexual Offenders: A Multi-site Study of Static-2002, 34 Law & Hum. Behav. 198 (2010).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Martin Rettenberger et al., Prospective Actuarial Risk Assessment: A Comparison of Five Risk Assessment Instruments in Different Sexual Offender Subtypes, 54 Int’l J. of Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 169 (2010); Roope Tikkanen, MAOA Alters the Effects of Heavy Drinking and Childhood Physical Abuse on Risk for Severe Impulsive Acts of Violence Among Alcoholic Violent Offenders, 34 Alcoholism-Clinical & Experimental Res. 853 (2010); Robert J. Snowden & Nicola S. Gray, Helpful and Unhelpful Risk Assessment Practices Reply, 61 Psychiatric Services 530 (2010); Chi Meng Chu & Stuart D. M. Thomas, Adolescent Sexual Offenders: The Relationship between Typology and Recidivism, 22 Sexual Abuse - A J. of Res. & Treatment 218 (2010); and Joan Langan, Challenging Assumptions about Risk Factors and the Role of Screening for Violence Risk in the Field of Mental Health, 12 Health Risk & Soc’y 85 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Juan Carlos Fernandez Caballero, et al., Sensitivity Versus Accuracy in Multiclass Problems Using Memetic Pareto Evolutionary Neural Networks, 21 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 750 (2010); and Rosa Bersabe & Teresa Rivas, A General Equation to Obtain Multiple Cut-off Scores on a Test from Multinomial Logistic Regression, 13 Spanish J. of Psychol. 494 (2010).

May 2010

Doug’s article, Liability Worries in 15-Minute ‘Med Checks’, will be published in 5 Current Psychiatry ___ (2010). He attended the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Introductory Course, Institute for Interpersonal Psychotherapy, University of Iowa.

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• "A Fool for a Client": Print Portrayals of 49 Pro se Criminal Defendants, 29 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 408 (2001) (with Neal W. Dunseith, Jr.), in Judith G. McMullen & Debra Oswald, Why Do We Need a Lawyer?: An Empirical Study of Divorce Cases, 12 J. L. Fam. Stud. 57 (2010).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003), in Karl B. Tegland, Evidence Law and Practice (Thomson/West, 5th ed., 2010 Supp.)
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Seng Khoon Teh, et al. Near-infrared Raman Spectroscopy for Optical Diagnosis in the Stomach: Identification of Helicobacter-Pylori Infection and Intestinal Metaplasia, 126 Int’l J. of Cancer 1920 (Apr 15, 2010).

April 2010

Doug published Splitting Treatment: How to Limit Liability Risk When You Share a Patient’s Care. 9 Current Psychiatry 43 (2010) (with Christina G. Weston). He attended the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Pittsburgh.

Doug’s article, Maximizing Diagnostic Information From the Dexamethasone Suppression Test An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of General Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), was cited in Vijaya K. Gothwal, McMonnies Questionnaire: Enhancing Screening for Dry Eye Syndromes with Rasch Analysis, 51 Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sci. 1401 (2010).

March 2010

Doug served as the judge in the Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry moot court, Is the Megabomber Competent?

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), 32 L. & Hum. Behav. 279 (2008), in Justice Susan Glazebrook, Risky Business: Predicting Recidivism, 17 Psychiatry Psychol. & L. 88 (2010).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Henny P. B Lodewijks, Corine de Ruiter, & Theo A. H. Doreleijers, The Impact of Protective Factors in Desistance from Violent Reoffending A Study in Three Samples of Adolescent Offenders, 25 J. Interpersonal Violence 568 (2010), and in Charlotte E. Rennie & Mairead C. Dolan, The Significance of Protective Factors in the Assessment of Risk, 20 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health 8 (2010).
• Evaluation and Optimization of Diagnostic Tests Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis and Information Theory, 24 Int’l J. Biomedical Computing 153 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza & Luis Soutullo-Esperon), in Craig K. Abbey, Miguel P. Eckstein, & John M. Boone, An Equivalent Relative Utility Metric for Evaluating Screening Mammography, 30 Med. Decis. Making 113 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Mark E. Oxley, Steven N. Thorsen, & Christine M. Schubert, The ROC Manifold of Fused Independent Classification Systems, 2009 FUSION:12TH International Conference on Information Fusion, 466, and in Bo Yang, The Extension of the Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve to Multi-class Problems, 2009 ISECS International Colloquium on Computing, Communication, Control, and Management 463.
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Lisa K. Richardson, B. Christopher Frueh, & Ronald Acierno, Prevalence Estimates of Combat-related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Critical Review, 44 Austl. & N.Z. J. Psychiatry 4 (2010).

February 2010

Douglas completed Splitting Treatment: How to Reduce Liability Risk when You Share a Patient’s Care, 12 Current Psychiatry ____ (2010) (with Christina G. Weston). He was quoted in Damron v. Butler County Children's Services, et al., No. 1:08-CV-257, 2009 WL 5217086 (S.D. Ohio, Dec. 30, 2009).

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Richard Rogers & Jill Johansson-Love, Evaluating Competency to Stand Trial with Evidence-Based Practice, 37 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 450 (2009).
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), and Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), 32 L. & Hum. Behav. 279 (2008), in Marcus T. Boccaccini, et al., Field Validity of the Static-99 and MnSOST-R among Sex Offenders Evaluated for Civil Commitment as Sexually Violent Predators, 15 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 278 (2009).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Miriam Brodersen, Danielle Swick, & Jack Richman, Risks and Mitigating Factors in Decisions to Accept Students with Criminal Records, 45 J. of Soc. Work Educ. 349 (2009).
• Comparing Diagnostic Tests Using Information Theory: The INFO-ROC Technique, 4 J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 214 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza); Diagnostic-tests and Information-theory, 4 J Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci., 95 (1992); and Comparing and Optimizing Diagnostic-tests - An Information-theoretical Approach, 12 Med. Decis. Making 179 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in W. A. Benish, Intuitive and Axiomatic Arguments for Quantifying Diagnostic Test Performance in Units of Information, 48 Methods of Information in Med. 552 (2009).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosci. 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in R. Nicholas Carleton, et al., SPINning Factors: Factor Analytic Evaluation of the Social Phobia Inventory in Clinical and Nonclinical Undergraduate Samples, 24 J. Anxiety Disorders 94 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He, et al., Three-Class ROC Analysis-Toward a General Decision Theoretic Solution, 29 IEEE Transactions on Med. Imaging 206 (2010), and in Ben Van Calster & Sabine Van Huffel, Integrated Discrimination Improvement and Probability-sensitive AUC Variants, 29 Stat. in Med. 318( 2010).

January 2010

Doug published Defensive Medicine: Can it Increase Your Malpractice Risk? 8 Current Psychiatry 86 (2009). He presented Client Troubles? It’s Time for Psychiatric Advice, a CLE Seminar (with Professor Marjorie Corman Aaron), sponsored by the Law School’s Weaver Center for Law and Psychiatry and the Center for Practice, at the Stratford Conference Center.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Roni Mayzer, et al., Juvenile Competency to Stand Trial in Criminal Court and Brain Function, 20 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 785 (2009).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Michael T. Baglivio, The Assessment of Risk to Recidivate among a Juvenile Offending Population, 37 J. Crim. Just. 596 (2009); in Erkki J. O. Soini, et al., Predicting Forensic Admission among the Mentally Ill in a Multinational Setting: A Bayesian Modelling Approach, 68 Data & Knowledge Engineering 1427 (2009); and in Thomas Nilsson, et al., The Precarious Practice of Forensic Psychiatric Risk Assessments, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 400 (2009).
• Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness, and the Myth of Psychiatric Abandonment: A Structural Anthropology Perspective, 44 Soc. Sci. & Med. 71 (1997), in Enric J. Novella, Theoretical Accounts on Deinstitutionalization and the Reform of Mental Health Services: A Critical Review, 11 Med. Health Care & Phil. 303 (2008).
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information From the Dexamethasone Suppression Test An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of General Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza); and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Elizabeth Cauffman, et al., A Multimethod Assessment of Juvenile Psychopathy: Comparing the Predictive Utility of the PCL:YV, YPI, and NEO PRI, 21 Psychol. Assessment 528 (2009).
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009), in Charles S. Zimmerman, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation (Thomson West, 2009 Supp.)
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis of Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Maciej Gorkiewicz, Using Propensity Score with Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) and Bootstrap to Evaluate Effect Size in Observational Studies, 29 Biocybernetics & Biomedical Engineering 41 (2009).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Colleen E. Carney, et al., Examining Maladaptive Beliefs about Sleep Across Insomnia Patient Groups, 68 J. Psychosomatic Research 57 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Alison G. Abraham, et al., Computer-aided Assessment of Diagnostic Images for Epidemiological Research, 9 BMC Med. Research Methodology 74 (2009); and, in Mael Lemoine, The Meaning of the Opposition between the Healthy and the Pathological and its Consequences, 12 Med. Health Care & Phil. 355 (2009).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Laura L. S. Howe, Giving Context to Post-deployment Post-concussive-like Symptoms: Blast-related Potential Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Comorbidities, 23 Clinical Neuropsychologist 1315 (2009).

December 2009

Douglas completed a manuscript, Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): Development of a Tool to Assess Risk of Inpatients’ Aggressive Behavior (with Drew Barzman, Lauren Brackenbury, Loretta Sonnier, Beverly Schnell, Amy Cassedy, Shelia Salisbury, & Michael Sorter). He published Testifying for Civil Commitment: Help Unwilling Patients Get Treatment They Need, 8 Current Psychiatry 50 (2009) (with B. Todd Thatcher).

Douglas made the following presentations:

• Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, Annual Meeting of the Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Dallas.
• What Can We Learn from Recent Antipsychotic Drug Litigation?, Does the Law Recognize a Specific Competence to Divorce?, and Incompetent Defendants: Probability of Restoration, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Baltimore.
• Does the Law Recognize a Distinct Form of Competence to Maintain a Divorce Action? Summit Behavioral Healthcare, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 12, 2009.

The story of Douglas’s new model of expert witnesses performance, which was first run in UC News, was featured in Science Daily, PhysOrg.com, and HealthLawProf Blog, and then picked up by the following media: NewsRx Health, Oncology Business Week, Women’s Health Law Weekly, Medical Imaging Week, Mental Health Business Week, Mental Health Law Weekly, Obesity, Fitness, and Wellness Week, Telemedicine Law Weekly, Biotech Law Weekly, Healthcare Finance, Tax, & Law Weekly, Physician Law Weekly, Pharma Law Weekly, Clinical Oncology Week, and Pain & Central Nervous System Week.

Several of Douglas’ articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in G. Parent, J. P. Guay, & R.A. Knight, Contribution of Regression Tree Approach in the Prediction of Recidivism in Adult Sexual Offenders, 59 Eur. Rev. Applied Psychol.-Rev. Eur. de Psychol. Appliquee 265 (2009).
• Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (Dec. 2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer), in Rosa Liperoti, et al., All-Cause Mortality Associated with Atypical and Conventional Antipsychotics among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 79 J. Clin. Psychiatry 1340 (2009).
• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Mark Herman, The Liability of Clergy for the Acts of Their Congregants, 98 Geo. L.J. 153 (2009); and W. Jonathan Cardi, A Pluralistic Analysis of the Therapist/Physician Duty to Warn Third Parties, 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 877 (2009).
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information from the Dexamethasone Suppression Test: An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Stephanie L. Willard, et al., Anterior Hippocampal Volume Is Reduced in Behaviorally Depressed Female Cynomolgus Macaques, 34 Psychoneuroendocrinology 1469 (2009).
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, (with Jill L. Steinberg), 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009), in Charles S. Zimmerman, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation (Thomson West, 2009).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Michael J. Finkle, et al., Competency Courts: A Creative Solution for Restoring Competency to the Competency Process, 27 Behav. Sci. & L.767 (2009).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in David R. Parker, Development of a Bayesian Framework for Determining Uncertainty in Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Estimates, 22 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering 31 (2010).

November 2009

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Calvin M. Langton, et al, Prediction of Institutional Aggression among Personality Disordered Forensic Patients Using Actuarial and Structured Clinical Risk Assessment Tools: Prospective Evaluation of the HCR-20, VRS, Static-99, and Risk Matrix 2000, 15 Psychol. Crime & L. 635 (2009).
• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Tija Zarkovic Palijan, Lana Muzinic, & Sanja Radeljak, Psychiatric Comorbidity in Forensic Psychiatry, 21 Psychiatria Danubina 429 (2009).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Jialiang Li & Xiao-Hua Zhou, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimation of the Three Way Receiver Operating Characteristic Surface, 139 J. Stat. Plan. & Inference 4133 (2009).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 27 (1996), in Michele R. Spoont, et al., From Trauma to PTSD: Beliefs about Sensations, Symptoms, and Mental Illness, 19 Qualitative Health Res. 1456 (2009).

Doug and his article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard,” L. & Hum. Behavior (2009) (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo, & Douglas S. Lehrer), were featured in First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts' Performance, UC News, Oct. 12, 2009.

October 2009

Douglas published Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard," Law & Human Behavior (2009) (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer). His article, Testifying in Civil Commitment Hearings: Your Performance in Court Can Help Unwilling Patients Get the Care They Need (with B. Todd Thatcher), was accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Current Psychiatry.

Two of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in T. E. McEwan, et al. Violence in Stalking Situations, 39 Psychol. Med. 1469 (2009); and Meghan Shapiro, An Overdose of Dangerousness: How “Future Dangerousness” Catches the Least Culpable Capital Defendants and Undermines the Rationale for the Executions it Supports, 35 Am. J. Crim. L. 145 (2008).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in United States v. Rodriguez, 2009 WL 2929808 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 8, 2009).

Summer 2009

Douglas published:

• Sex with Former Patients: OK after Retirement?, 8 Current Psychiatry 25 (2009).
• The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009).
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009) (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg).

His article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” (with co-authors Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer) was accepted for publication in Law and Human Behavior.

Douglas gave the following presentations:

• Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 4, 2009.
• Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms? Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 4, 2009.
• Risk Assessment, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 9, 2009.
• Violence and Mental Illness: Problems with Predictions, H. I. Davis Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 10, 2009 (1 hr CME).
• How Accurate Are Assessments of Competence To Stand Trial? Guest Lecture Series, Summit Behavioral Healthcare, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11, 2009.
• Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 18, 2009.
• Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 25, 2009.
• Competence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (with 3L Weaver Fellow Amanda N. Shoemaker) as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Several of Douglas’s publications were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Alec Buchanan & Howard Zonana, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 142 (2009).
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Theodore Donaldson & Richard Wollert, A Mathematical Proof and Example That Bayes's Theorem Is Fundamental to Actuarial Estimates of Sexual Recidivism Risk, 20 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 206 (2008); in James Vess, Fear and Loathing in Public Policy: Ethical Issues in Laws for Sex Offenders, 14 Aggression & Violent Behav. 264 (2009); in R. Karl Hanson & Kelly E. Morton-Bourgon, The Accuracy of Recidivism Risk Assessments for Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of 118 Prediction Studies, 21 Psychol. Assessment 1 (2009); and, in Eric Beauregard & Tom Mieczkowski, Testing the Predictive Utility of the Static-99: A Bayes Analysis, 14 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 187 (2009).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Nina Lindberg, et al., Psychopathic Traits and Offender Characteristics - A Nationwide Consecutive Sample of Homicidal Male Adolescents, 9 BMC Psychiatry Art. No. 18, May 6 2009; in Helina Hakkanen-Nyholm, et al. Homicides with Mutilation of the Victim's Body, 54 J. Forensic Sci. 933 (2009); in Roope Tikkanen, et al. Recidivistic Offending and Mortality in Alcoholic Violent Offenders: A Prospective Follow-up Study, 168 Psychiatry Res. 18 (2009); in Jerome Endrass, et al. Accuracy of the Static-99 in Predicting Recidivism in Switzerland, 53 Int’l J. of Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 482 (2009); and, in R. Karl Hanson, The Psychological Assessment of Risk for Crime and Violence, 50 Can. Psychol.172 (2009).
• Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms, 33 N.M. L. Rev. 255 (2003), in Anthony E. Giardino, Combat Veterans, Mental Health Issues, and the Death Penalty: Addressing the Impact of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2955 (2009).
• Biological Markers and Psychiatric-diagnosis - Risk-benefit Balancing Using ROC Analysis, 29 Biological Psychiatry 811 (1991)(with E. Somoza), in Lyle D. Broemeling, Vickers, A. J. (2008), "Decision Analysis for the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test Prediction Models, and Molecular Models," The American Statistician, 62,314-320: Comment and Reply, 63 Am. Statistician 198 (2009).
• Comparing and Optimizing Diagnostic-tests - An Information-theoretical Approach, 12 Med. Decis. Making 179 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Laxmaiah Manchikanti, et al., Evidence-based Medicine, Systematic Reviews, and Guidelines in Interventional Pain Management: Part 5. Diagnostic Accuracy Studies, 12 Pain Physician 517 (2009).
• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Matthew Large, Dangerousness and Risk Assessment, 17 Australasian Psychiatry 336 (2009).
• Is Expert Psychiatric Testimony Fundamentally Immoral?, 17 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 347 (1994), in Alison Roscoe, et al. Psychiatric Recommendations to the Court as Regards Homicide Perpetrators, 20 J Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 366 (2009).
• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Public Pol’y & L. 73 (1996) (with M. B. Kapp) in Aaron Ang, et al. Live or Let Die: Ethical Issues in a Psychiatric Patient with End-stage Renal Failure, 38 Annals Acad. Med. Singapore 370 (2009).
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009) (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), in Lindsay Beth Willett, Forward, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. I (2009).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Douglas R. Morris & George F. Parker, Effects of Advanced Age and Dementia on Restoration of Competence to Stand Trial, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 156 (2009).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Jacqueline Cohen, Samuel Garman, & Wilpen Gorr, Empirical Calibration of Time Series Monitoring Methods Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, 25 Int’l J. Forecasting 484 (2009).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Robert J. W. Clift, Gordana Rajlic, & Heather M. Gretton, Discriminative and Predictive Validity of the Penile Plethysmograph in Adolescent Sex Offenders, 21 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 335 (2009).
• Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Sarah Stringer & Marie Rueve), in George F. Koob, G. Kenneth Lloyd & Barbara J. Mason, Development of Pharmacotherapies for Drug Addiction: A Rosetta Stone Approach, 8 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 500 (2009).

June 2009

Douglas published Smoking Allowed: Is Hospital Policy a Liability Risk?, Current Psychiatry, May 2009, pp. 28-31.

He made the following presentations:

• When to Throw Away the Key: Mental Health Prediction of Sexual Offending. Department of Psychology Colloquium, Sinclair College, Dayton, Ohio, May 15, 2009.
• The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness. Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2009.
• Understanding and Assessing ‘Legal Insanity’. Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, May 28, 2009.

Several of his publications were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Robert John Zagar, et al., Accepted Legal Applications of Actuarial Testing and Delinquency Interventions: Examples of Savings in Real-life Situations, 104 Psychol. Rep. 339 (Sp. Iss. SI FEB 2009).
• "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute, 27 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Matthew Large, Olav Nielssen, & Gordon Elliott, Reliability of Psychiatric Evidence in Serious Criminal Matters: Fitness to Stand Trial and the Defence of Mental Illness, 43 Austl. & N.Z. J. of Psychiatry 446 (2009).
• Interpreting Clinical Evidence of Malingering: A Bayesian Perspective, 28 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 293 (2000), in Sanford L. Drob, Kevin B.Meehan, & Shari E. Waxman, Clinical and Conceptual Problems in the Attribution of Malingering in Forensic Evaluations, 37 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 98 (2009).
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in John R. Crawford, Paul H. Garthwaite, & Karolina Betkowska, Bayes' Theorem and Diagnostic Tests in Neuropsychology: Interval Estimates for Post-test Probabilities, 23 Clin. Neuropsychologist 624 (2009).
• Malpractice and the Psychiatrist: A Primer for Residents, 21 Acad. Psychiatry 11 (1997), in Carol I. Ping Tsao & Joseph Layde, Three-Session Psychiatric Malpractice Curriculum for Senior Psychiatry Residents, 33 Acad. Psychiatry 160 (2009).
• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter", 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in John J. Barrett, et al., Criterion Validity of the Financial Skills Subscale of the Direct Assessment of Functional Status Scale, 166 Psychiatry Res. 148 (Apr. 30 2009).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Mae C. Quinn, Reconceptualizing Competence: An Appeal, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 259 (2009).
• Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D. Sanders), in Ed Day, et al., Predictors of Psychological Morbidity in Liver Transplant Assessment Candidates: Is Alcohol Abuse or Dependence a Factor? 22 Transplant Int’l 606 (2009).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Matthew S Wandishin & Steven J. Mullen, Multiclass ROC Analysis, 24 Weather & Forecasting 530 (2009) and Mehul.P. Sampat, et al., Indexes for Three-Class Classification Performance Assessment-An Empirical Comparison, 13 IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 300 (2009).

May 2009

Douglas completed a manuscript, What Can We Learn from Recent Antipsychotic Drug Litigation? (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg). Two of his articles were accepted for publication:

• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), in the Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and Law.
• Incompetence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Odd to Do (with 3L Weaver Fellow Amanda N. Shoemaker), in the St. John’s Law Review.

Three of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Jeremy Coid, et al., Gender Differences in Structured Risk Assessment: Comparing the Accuracy of Five Instruments, 77 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 337 (2009).
• Diagnostic-tests and Information-theory, 4 J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosciences, 95 (1992), in Yi N. Wang, A Two-Dimensional Hybrid Logic of Subset Spaces, Logic and its Applications 5378: 19(6) (2009).
• Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D Sanders), in Cuneyt Evren & Ercan Dalbudak, Relationship of Personality Trait Impulsivity with Clinical Variables in Male Alcohol-Dependent Inpatients, 19 Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni-Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology 15 (2009).

Douglas was quoted in Braden v. Bagley, No. 2:04-CV-842, 2009 WL 922363 (S.D.Ohio).

April 2009

Douglas published Commentary: Let's Think about Human Factors, Not Human Failings, 37 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 25 (2009). He completed two manuscripts:

• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation (with co-author and Weaver Fellow Jill L. Steinberg).
• Does the Law Recognize a Specific Competence to Divorce? (with co-author and Weaver Fellow Amanda N. Shoemaker).

Douglas attended the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Chicago. Several of his articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Stuart D. M. Thomas, et al., Factors Associated with Seclusion in a Statewide Forensic Psychiatric Service in Australia over a 2-year Period, 18 Int’l J. Mental Health Nursing 2 (2009).
• The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009), in William F. Sherwood, The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal, and Public Policy Responses–A Symposium Introduction and Overview, 30 J. Legal Med. 1 (2009); and Richard A. Goodman, The "Dangerous" Infected Patient: An Approach to Characterizing the Risks Posed by Persons with Communicable Infectious Diseases, 30 J. Legal Med. 13 (2009).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Kirsten M. Wilkins, et al., Clinical Utility of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an Inpatient Geropsychiatry Unit, 24 Am. J. of Alzheimers Disease & Other Dementias 34 (2009).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Ben Van Calster, Multi-class AUC Metrics and Weighted Alternatives, 1-8 IEEE Inter’l Joint Conference on Neural Networks 1390 (2008); and Todd A. Alonzo, A Comparison of Tests for Restricted Orderings in the Three-class Case, 28 Stat. in Med. 1144 (2009).
• Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Lars Noah, Comfortably Numb: Medicalizing (And Mitigating) Pain-and-Suffering Damages, 42 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 431 (2009).

March 2009

Douglas published The Imperfection of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons From Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Leg. Med. 109 (2009). He completed the manuscript for Is Letting Inpatients Smoke Malpractice?, which will be published in Current Psychiatry.

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Richard S. Saver, In Tepid Defense of Population Health: Physicians and Antibiotic Resistance, 34 Am. J.L. & Med. 431 (2008).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Aleksandar A. Jovanovic, et al., Predicting Violence in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 66 Vojnosanitetski Pregled 13 (2009).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Fey, The Validity of Three-Class Hotelling Trace (3-HT) in Describing Three-Class Task Performance: Comparison of Three-Class Volume Under ROC Surface (VUS) and 3-HT, 28 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 185 (2009).

February 2009

Douglas completed a manuscript, Incompetence to Divorce: When Breaking up is Odd to Do, with co-author and 3L Weaver Fellow Mandy Shoemaker. He published Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, in Correctional Service of Canada, Sexual Homicide and Paraphilias: The Correctional Service of Canada’s Experts Forum 2007, 41 (A. J. R. Harris & C. A. Page, eds. 2008). Douglas was was quoted in Mental Patients Kept in Isolation, UC News-Record, Jan. 21, 2009.

Several of his articles were cited:

• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Zoe N. Hilton & Grant T. Harris, How Nonrecidivism Affects Predictive Accuracy Evidence from a Cross-Validation of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA), 24 J. Interpers. Violence 326 (2009).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003); Interpreting Clinical Evidence of Malingering: A Bayesian Perspective, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 293 (2000); Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: A Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger); and Presenting Evidence of Malingering to Courts: Insights from Decision Theory, 14 Behav. Sci. Law 271 (1996) (with Kathleen J. Hart), in Michael Proeve, Issues in the Application of Bayes' Theorem to Child Abuse Decision Making, 14 Child Maltreatment 114 (2009).
• ‘A Fool for a Client’: Print Portrayals of 49 Pro Se Criminal Defendants, 29 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 408 (2001) (with N. W. Dunsieth, Jr.), in Douglas R. Morris & Richard L. Frierson, Pro Se Competence in the Aftermath of Indiana v. Edwards, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 551 (2008).
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information from the Dexamethasone Suppression Test - An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Jussi Jokinen & Peter Nordstrom, HPA Axis Hyperactivity as Suicide Predictor in Elderly Mood Disorder Inpatients, 33 Psychoneuroendocrinology 1387 (2008).
• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in J. A. Mackenzie, N. B. Lincoln, & G. J. Newby, Capacity to Make a Decision about Discharge Destination after Stroke: A Pilot Study, 22 Clinical Rehabilitation 1116 (2008).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 34 (2007), in Douglas R. Morris & George F. Parker, Jackson's Indiana: State Hospital Competence Restoration in Indiana, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 522 (2008).

January 2009

Douglas made the following presentations:

• Dangerousness Decisions: Does Possible Violence Justify Involuntary Confinement?, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama.
• Managing Attorney Stress with Pharmaceuticals: Is This What You Signed Up for When You Went to Law School?, National Business Institute CLE Seminar, Dayton, OH
• Managing Attorney Stress with Pharmaceuticals: Is This What You Signed Up for When You Went to Law School?, National Business Institute CLE Seminar, Cincinnati, OH

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Tim Brennan, William Dieterich, & Beate Ehret, Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Compas Risk and Needs Assessment System, 36 Crim. Just.& Behav. 21 (2009).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Sarah M. Manchak, Jennifer Lynne Skeem, & Kevin S. Douglas, Utility of the Revised Level of Service Inventory (LSI-R), in Predicting Recidivism after Long-Term Incarceration, 32 L. & Hum. Behavior 477 (2008).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003), in Kellie Batt, E. Arthur Shores, & Eugene Chekaluk, The Effect of Distraction on the Word Memory Test and Test of Memory Malingering Performance in Patients with a Severe Brain Injury, 14 J. of the Int’l Neuropsychological Soc’y 1074 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He, Xiyun Song, & Eric C. Frey, Application of Three-Class ROC Analysis to Task-Based Image Quality Assessment of Simultaneous Dual-Isotope Myocardial Perfusion SPECT, 27 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1556 (Sp. Iss. SI Nov. 2008).

December 2008

Douglas posted Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a Diagnostic 'Gold Standard' (with Michael D. Bowen, David Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer) on SSRN

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Barbara E. McDermott, et al., The Conditional Release of Insanity Acquittees: Three Decades of Decision-Making, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 329 (2008); in John M. Fabian, Current Standards and Practices in Violence Risk Assessment at a Maximum Security Forensic Hospital Following a High Profile Sexual Homicide, 13 Aggression & Violent Behav. 337 (2008); and in Pamela R. Blair, David K. Marcus, & Marcus T. Boccaccini, Is There an Allegiance Effect for Assessment Instruments? Actuarial Risk Assessment as an Exemplar, 15 Clin. Psychol.-Science & Prac. 346 (2008).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Nicholas P. Gruszauskas, et al., Performance of Breast Ultrasound Computer-aided Diagnosis: Dependence on Image Selection, 15 Acad. Radiology 1234 (2008).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-Tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Aleksandar A. Jovanovic, et al., Reliability and Validity of DSM-IV Axis V Scales in a Clinical Sample of Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 20 Psychiatria Danubina 286 (2008) and in Diana Zwahlen, et al., Screening Cancer Patients' Families with the Distress Thermometer (DT): A Validation Study, 17 Psycho-Oncology 959 (2008).

November 2008

Douglas published, Going Outside Your Area of Expertise: How Far Is Too Far?, Current Psychiatry 2008;7(10):53-56 (with Christina G. Weston, MD). He presented Psychological Tests in CST Assessments: Useful or Superfluous? (with G. Sokolov & P. Zapf), and Adjudicative Competence: A Primer on Difficult Cases (with A. T. Nemoianu, C. A. Martone, R. Wettstein, & L. M. Chism) at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Seattle.

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Calvin M. Langton, et al., Further Investigation of Findings Reported for the Minnesota Sex Offender Screening Tool-Revised, 23 J. Interpersonal Violence 1363 (2008).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Alma Au, et al., A Preliminary Validation of the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER) in Hong Kong, 23 J Family Violence 727 (2008).
• Sex on the Wards: Conundra for Clinicians, 25 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 441 (1997), in Diana de Souza, et al., Sexuality, Vulnerability to HIV, and Mental Health: An Ethnographic Study of Psychiatric Institutions, 23 Cadernos de Saude Publica 2224 (2007).

October 2008

Douglas submitted his article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners In the Absence of a Diagnostic �Gold Standard� (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer), for publication. His article, Going Outside Your Area of Expertise: How Far Is Too Far? Current Psychiatry (with Christina G. Weston), was accepted for publication.

Douglas published two articles:

• Divorce, Custody, and Parental Consent for Psychiatric Treatment, 7 Current Psychiatry 63 (2008) (with Christina G. Weston).
• Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 340 (2008).

Douglas presented Psychiatric Perspectives on Sin and Repentance to Congregation Ohav Shalom in Cincinnati. Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Kirk Heilbrun, et al., Standards of Practice and Care in Forensic Mental Health Assessment - Legal, Professional, and Principles-based Considerations, 14 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 1 (2008); and Sharron E. Dawes, Barton W. Palmer, & Dilip V. Jeste, Adjudicative Competence, 21 Current Opinion in Psychiatry 490 (2008).
• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - A Journal of Research and Treatment 41 (2006), in James Vess, Sex Offender Risk Assessment: Consideration of Human Rights in Community Protection Legislation, 13 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 245 (2008).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Kevin S. Douglas, Monica E. Epstein, & Norman G. Poythress, Criminal Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders: Testing the Incremental and Predictive Validity of Three Measures of Psychopathic Features, 32 L. & Hum. Behav. 423 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Shuangge Ma & Jian Huang, Penalized Feature Selection and Classification in Bioinformatics, 9 Briefings in Bioinformatics 392 (2008).
• Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Steven K. Erickson, The Myth of Mental Disorder: Transsubstantive Behavior and Taxometric Psychiatry, 41 Akron L. Rev. 67 (2008).

Summer 2008

Douglas presented How Accurate Are Psychiatrists' Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial? as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

He made the following presentations:

• How Accurate Are Psychiatrists' Determinations of Competence to Stand Trial?, Cincinnati Psychiatric Society, Kingsgate Conference Center, June 17, 2008 (1 hr CME)
• Parashat Balak, Northern Hills Synagogue-Congregation Bnai Avraham, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12, 2008
• Avoiding Trouble: 'Off-Label' Pharmacotherapy and Malpractice Liability, Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Amelia Island, Florida, August 1, 2008 (1 hr CME)
• Dodging Troubles: Keys to Good Documentation, Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Amelia Island, Florida, August 1, 2008 (1 hr CME)

He rejoined the faculty of the U.C. Department of Psychiatry and became Associate Training Director for the U.C. Department of Psychiatry's forensic psychiatry fellowship, July 2008 and received the following two awards:

• Received the Chair's Recognition Award, Wright State University Department of Psychiatry, June 2008
• Received the Career Achievement Award from Residents of the W.S.U. Department of Psychiatry, June 2008

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Ezra E. H. Griffith, Stone's Views of 25 Years Ago Have Now Shifted Incrementally, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 201 (2008).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Henry P. B. Lodewijks, et al. SAVRY Risk Assessment in Violent Dutch Adolescents - Relation to Sentencing and Recidivism, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 696 (2008); Dae-Young Kim, Hee-Jong Joo, & William P. Mccarty, Risk Assessment and Classification of Day Reporting Center Clients - An Actuarial Approach, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 792 (2008); Henry P. B. Lodewijks, et al., Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) During Residential Treatment, 31 Int'l J. L. & Psychiatry 263 (2008); and Stuart D. M. Thomas, Harm Associated with Stalking Victimization, 42 Austl. & N. Z. J. Psychiatry 800 (2008).
• Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer), in Rosa Liperoti, Claudio Pedone, & Andea Corsonello, Antipsychotics for the Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), 6 Current Neuropharmacology 117 (2008).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003), in Karen Franklin, Malingering as a Dichotomous Variable: Case Report on an Insanity Defendant, 8 J. of Forensic Psychol. Prac. (2008).
• "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute, 27 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Kacy L. Mullen & John F. Edens, Case Law Survey of the Personality Assessment Inventory: Examining its Role in Civil and Criminal Trials, 90 J. Personality Assessment 300 (2008).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis of Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Roberto Romero, et al., Proteomic Analysis of Amniotic Fluid to Identify Women with Preterm Labor and Intra-amniotic Inflammation/infection: The Use of a Novel Computational Method to Analyze Mass Spectrometric Profiling, 21 J. Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Med. 367 (2008); and Karen Drukker, et al., Breast US Computer-aided Diagnosis Workstation: Performance with a Large Clinical Diagnostic Population, 248 Radiology 392 (2008).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Monica Gammelgard, et al., The Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) among Institutionalised Adolescents, 19 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 352 (2008).
• Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D. Sanders), in Cueneyt Evren, Ercan Dalbudak, & Duran Cakmak, Alexithymia and Personality in Relation to Dimensions of Psychopathology in Male Alcohol-dependent Inpatients, 18 Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni - Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology 1 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Jialiang Li & Jason P. Fine, ROC Analysis with Multiple Classes and Multiple Tests: Methodology and its Application in Microarray Studies, 9 Biostatistics 566 (2008); and Arie Ben-David, About the Relationship between ROC Curves and Cohen's Kappa, 21 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 874 (2008).
• Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Vidisha Barua, "Synthetic Sanity": A Way Around the Eighth Amendment?, 44 Crim. L. Bull. 4 (2008).

Douglas was interviewed on WLA, July 30, 2008 and quoted in:

• Sex in Psych Ward: Free or Coerced?, Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 26, 2008, at B1.
• Necrophilia 'So out There' That Ohio Doesn't List it as a Crime, Cincinnati Enquirer, July 30, 2008.

June 2008

Douglas received the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for outstanding contributions to the literature in forensic psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). He delivered a lecture on the topic at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C.

Douglas made two other presentations:

• The Imperfections of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, at The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal and Public Policy Responses, Health Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Law (see coverage in the Southern Illinoisan).
• Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Assessments in the Absence of a Diagnostic Gold Standard, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine (Elizabeth Place).

Douglas published a Malpractice Rx column, Violence Risk: Is Clinical Judgment Enough?, 7 Current Psychiatry 70 (2008). He completed an article, Divorce, Custody, and Parental Consent for Psychiatric Treatment (with Christina G. Weston), forthcoming in Current Psychiatry).

Two of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson, Is Newer Better? A Cross-validation of the Static-2002 and the Risk Matrix 2000 in a Danish Sample of Sexual Offenders, 14 Psychol. Crime & L. 85 (2008); Jonathan Simon, Reversal of Fortune: The Resurgence of Individual Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice, 1 Ann. Rev .L, &. Soc. Sci. 397 (2005); Howard N. Garb, Clinical Judgment and Decision Making, 1 Ann. Rev. Clinical Psychol.67 (2005); and Scott I. Vrieze & William M. Grove, Predicting Sex Offender Recidivism. I. Correcting for Item Overselection and Accuracy Overestimation in Scale Development. Ii. Sampling Error-induced Attenuation of Predictive Validity over Base Rate Information, 32 Law & Hum. Behav. 266 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Frey, The Meaning and Use of the Volume under a Three-class ROC Surface (VUS), 27 IEEE Transactions Med. Imaging 577 (2008); Chris Bourke, et al., On Reoptimizing Multi-class Classifiers, 71 Machine Learning 219 (2008).

May 2008

Douglas published Evaluate Liability Risks in Prescribing, 7 Current Psychiatry 91 (2008). He completed a new article, Use of Actuarial Instruments in Clinical Practice.

Douglas made the following presentations:

• Thinking Clearly About the Accuracy of Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments: A Moderated Panel Discussion, American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
• How Accurate Are Determinations of Competence to Stand Trial? Poster presentation, American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
• Assessing Adjudicative Competence: How Accurate?, Annual Meeting, Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Cleveland, OH

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse-A Journal of Research and Treatment 41 (2006), and Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Richard Wollert, Poor Diagnostic Reliability, the Null-Bayes Logic Model, and Their Implications for Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations, 13 Psych., Pub. Pol'y 167 (2007).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Amarendra N. Singh, Assessment and Prediction of Violence in Psychiatric Patients, 15 Int'l Med. J.3 (2008).
• Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (December 2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer), in John M. Kane, et al., Long-term Efficacy and Safety of Iloperidone - Results from 3 Clinical Trials for the Treatment of Schizophrenia, 28 J. Clin. Psychopharmacology S29-S35 (2008).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in Debora A. Perlick, et al., Association of Symptomatology and Cognitive Deficits to Functional Capacity in Schizophrenia, 99 Schizophrenia Res. 192 (2008).

April 2008

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Mairead C. Dolan & Charlotte E. Rennie, The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth as a Predictor of Recidivism in a United Kingdom Cohort of Adolescent Offenders with Conduct Disorder, 20 Psychol. Assessment 35 (2008).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), Commentary: Assessing the Risk of Violence - Are "Accurate" Predictions Useful?, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 272 (2000), Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse J. Res. Treatment 41 (2006), and Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error' , 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007), in Alec Buchanan, Risk of Violence by Psychiatric Patients: Beyond the "Actuarial Versus Clinical" Assessment Debate, 59 Psych. Serv. 184 (2008).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Charles W. Murdock, Business Organizations (West, Illinois Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
• Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in Jennifer Moyer & Daniel C. Marson, Assessment of Decision-making Capacity in Older Adults: An Emerging Area of Practice and Research, 62 Js. Geront. Ser. B-Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. P3 (Jan. 2007).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Christos T. Nakas, & Bradford A. Navia, Assessing Multiple-group Diagnostic Problems with Multi-dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces: Application to Proton MR Spectroscopy (MRS) in HIV-related Neurological Injury, 40 Neuroimage 248 (Mar. 1, 2008) and, in Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, Efficient Multiclass ROC Approximation by Decomposition via Confusion Matrix Perturbation Analysis, 30 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 810 (May 2008).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Nina A. Sayer, et al., Changes in Psychiatric Status and Service Use Associated with Continued Compensation Seeking after Claim Determinations for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 21 J. Traum. Stress 40 (Feb. 2008).

Douglas has begun publishing a new column in Current Psychiatry, Malpractice Rx.

March 2008

Doug published Tips To Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, Current Psychiatry, Vol. 7(2), pp. 80, 84-86 (2008). He completed an article, How to Evaluate the Risks of Prescribing.

Doug presented Subjects Lacking Capacity to Consent at the Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Conference in Cincinnati. Several of his articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychology 783 (1994), in Kaeko Yokota, et al., Application of the Behavioral Investigative Support System for Profiling Perpetrators of Serial Sexual Assaults, 25 Behav. Sci.& L. 841 (2008); Jerome Endrass, et al., Using the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) to Predict In-prison Aggressive Behavior in a Swiss Offender Population, 52 Int'l J. Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 81 (2008); and Jodi L. Viljoen, et al. Assessing Risk for Violence in Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 5 (2008).
• Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Developments in the Law -- The Law of Mental Illness, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1121 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Berkman Saliner, et al., Performance Analysis of Three-class Classifiers: Properties of a 3-d ROC Surface and the Normalized Volume under the Surface for the Ideal Observer, 27 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 215 (2008); and Yueh-Yun Chi & Xiao-Hua Zhou, Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces in the Presence of Verification Bias, 57 J. Royal Statistical Soc. Series C-Applied Statistics 1 (Part 1 2008).

February 2008

Douglas was awarded the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). The award was established in 1967 to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature on forensic psychiatry. Douglas will receive the award and deliver the awardee lecture at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. on May 8 (2008).

Douglas published Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Stringer & Rueve).

Two of Douglas's articles were accepted for publication:

• Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
• Tips to Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, in Current Psychiatry.

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychology 783 (1994), in Nicola S. Gray, et al. Predicting Future Reconviction in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: The Predictive Efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20, 19 Psychological Assessment 474 (2007).
• Dangerousness Decisions: an Essay on the Mathematics of Clinical Violence Predictions and Involuntary Hospitalization, 2 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 95 (1995), in Alanna Buchanan, Conversation: GPS Monitoring of Domestic Violence Offenders: a Racial Justice Perspective on Monitoring Domestic Violence Offenders Using GPS Systems, 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 271 (2008).
• Evaluating Violence Risk "By the Book": a Review of Hcr-20: Assessing Risk for Violence, Version 2 and the Manual for the Sexual Violence Risk 20, 18 Behav. Sci. L. 781 (2000), in Barry S. Cooper, et al., Clinical-forensic Risk Assessment: The past and Current State of Affairs, 7 J. Forensic Psychol. Prac. 1 (2007).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Dongsheng Hu, et al., Central Rather than Overall Obesity Is Related to Diabetes in the Chinese Population: the Interasia Study, 15 Obesity 2809 (2007).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Trevor I. Laine & Kenneth W. Bauer, 35 Computers & Operations Research 1789 (2008).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in B. Christopher Frueh, et al. US Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Policies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Administrative Trends and Implications for Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Research, 97 Am. J. Pub. Health 2143 (2007).

December 2007

Doug published Avoiding Errors about Margins of Error, Brit J Psychiatry 2007; 191:561 (with Sellke). His article, Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove, was accepted for publication in Law and Human Behavior.

Several of Doug's articles were cited:

• Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (December 2000), in John A. Larsen, Symbolic Healing of Early Psychosis: Psychoeducation and Sociocultural Processes of Recovery, 31 (3) Cult. Med. & Psychiatry 283 (Sept. 2007).
• Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Jennifer K. Crawford, Who Really Decides? Forcibly Medicating Criminal Defendants: United States v. Archuleta, 3 J. Health & Biomed. L. 191 (2007).
• Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Todd A. Alonzo & Christos T. Nakas, Comparison of ROC Umbrella Volumes with an Application to the Assessment of Lung Cancer Diagnostic Markers, 49 (5) Biometrical J. 654 (Aug. 2007) and in Darrin C. Edwards & Charles E. Metz, Optimization of Restricted ROC Surfaces in Three-class Classification Tasks, 26 (10) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1345 (Oct. 2007).

November 2007

Doug and Betsy Malloy organized the symposium, Revising the Frontiers of Responsibility and Blame: How Neuroscience Is Reshaping Philosophy and the Criminal Law, co-sponsored by the Glenn M. Weaver Institute, the UC Department of Philosophy, and the UC College of Medicine. Doug served as Master of Ceremonies at the symposium. Speakers included:

• John Bickle, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy).
• Valerie Hardcastle, Ph.D. (Dean, UC McMicken College of Arts and Sciences).
• Douglas S. Lehrer, M.D. (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine).
• Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania School of Law).
• Stephen M. Strakowski, M.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry).
• Glen Weissenberger, J.D. (Dean, DePaul University School of Law).

Doug and the entire College community mourn Dr. Glenn Weaver, who died on October 25 at age 86.

Doug's article, Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove, was accepted for publication in Law & Human Behavior.

Doug attended and presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Miami Beach, Florida:

• Stalking: From Risk Assessment to Prosecution (panel with Debra A. Pinals, Phillip J. Resnick, and James L. Knoll).
• Assessing Adjudicative Competence: How Accurate?

Two of Doug's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Wagdy Loza, Angele MacTavish, & Amel Loza-Fanous, A Nine-year Follow-up Study on the Predictive Validity of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire for Predicting Violent and Nonviolent Recidivism, 22 J. Interpersonal Violence 1144 (2007); Mairead Dolan & Rachael Fullam, The Validity of the Violence Risk Scale Second Edition (VRS-2) in a British Forensic Inpatient Sample, 18 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 381 (2007); in Joel D. Lieberman, et al. Determining Dangerousness in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations: Cognitive-experiential Self-theory and Juror Judgments of Expert Testimony, 25 Behav. Sci. & L. 507 (2007); Roger Almvik, Phil Woods, & Kirsten Rasmussen, Assessing Risk for Imminent Violence in the Elderly: The Broset Violence Checklist, 22 Int'l J. Geriatric Psychiatry 862 (2007); Matthew K. Nock & Mahzarin R. Banaji, Prediction of Suicide Ideation and Attempts among Adolescents Using a Brief Performance-Based Test, 75 J. Consulting Clin Psychology 707 (2007); and Daryl G. Kroner, Directions for Violence and Sexual Risk Assessment in Correctional Psychology, 34 Crim. Just. & Behav. 906 (2007).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 34 (2007), in Hal Wortzel et al., Crisis in the Treatment of Incompetence to Proceed to Trial: Harbinger of a Systemic Illness, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 357 (2007).

Doug was quoted in Case Result Likely Would Differ Today, Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 28, 2007, at 11A.

October 2007

Doug completed an article, Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, and submitted it to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He presented Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events at the Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Two of Doug's articles were cited:

• A Decision Analysis Approach to Neuroleptic Dosing: Insights from a Mathematical Model, 58 J. Clinical Psychiatry 66 (1997), in Vita Dolzan et al., Polymorphisms in Dopamine Receptor DRD1 and DRD2 Genes and Psychopathological and Extrapyramidal Symptoms in Patients on Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment, 144B Am. J. Med. Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics 809 (Sept. 5, 2007).
• Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Shuangge Ma & Jian Huang, Combining Multiple Markers for Classification Using ROC, 63 Biometrics 751 (2007); and Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, 28 Pattern Recognition Letters 1747 (Oct.1, 2007).

Summer 2007

Douglas published:

• Stalking, Competence to Stand Trial, and Criminal Responsibility, in Stalking: Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches 164-92 (Pinals DA, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Avoiding Errors About "Margins of Error," British J. of Psychiatry eLetter, July 5, 2007.

Douglas submitted two manuscripts for publication:

• Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), Law and Human Behavior.
• Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable.

Douglas presented Roll Out the Lawsuits: Could Tort Lawyers Have a Barrel of Fun with the Genetics of Alcoholism? (with Betsy Malloy) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

He gave seven guest lectures during the Forensic Psychology course at Xavier University:

• The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness
• Understanding and Assessing "Legal Insanity"
• Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization
• Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms?
• Risk Assessment
• Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship
• Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation

He also gave a talk on The Psychiatrist's Perspective on Alcohol Use Disorders to the Cincinnati Lawyer's Club.

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consult. Clin. Psych. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson & Niklas Langstrom, Unguided Clinical and Actuarial Assessment of Re-offending Risk: A Direct Comparison with Sex Offenders in Denmark, 19 Sex. Abuse - J. Res. Tr. 135 (2007); and Frank Urbaniok et al., The Prediction of Criminal Recidivism - the Implication of Sampling in Prognostic Models, 257 Eur. Arch. Psych. Clin. Neuroscience 129 (2007).
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger); and Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sex. Abuse J. Res. Tr. 41 (2006) in Calvin M. Langton et al., Reliability and Validity of the Static-2002 among Adult Sexual Offenders with Reference to Treatment Status, 34 Crim. J. Behavior 616 (2007).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in Michele R. Spoont et al., Does Filing a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Disability Claim Promote Mental Health Care Participation among Veterans?, 172 Mil. Med. 572 (2007).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Christos T. Nakas & Todd A. Alonzo, ROC Graphs for Assessing the Ability of a Diagnostic Marker to Detect Three Disease Classes with an Umbrella Ordering, 63 Biometrics 603 (2007).
• Neuropsychiatric Decision Making: the Role of Disorder Prevalence in Diagnostic Testing, 3 J. Neuropsych. Cl. 84.(1991); and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Christopher J. Recklitis & Paola Rodriguez, Screening Childhood Cancer Survivors with the Brief Symptom Inventory-18: Classification Agreement with the Symptom Checklist-90-revised, 16 Psycho-oncology 429( 2007).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych. Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Laura Todaro et al., Alteration of Serum and Tumoral Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) Isoforms in Patients with Brain Tumors, 83 J. Neuro-oncology 135 (2007).

June 2007

Two of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Melinda D. Schlager & David J. Simourd, Validity of the Level of Service Inventory-revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders, 34 Crim. Just. Behav. 545 (2007); and F. Urbaniok, et al., The Predictive Quality of the Psychopathy Checklist-revised (PCL-R) for Violent and Sex Offenders in Switzerland-a Validation Study, 75 Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie 155 (2007).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Karl B. Tegland, Evidence Law and Practice (West, 5th ed., 2007 Supp.); and Michael J. Sharland & Jeffrey D. Gfeller, A Survey of Neuropsychologists' Beliefs and Practices with Respect to the Assessment of Effort, 22 Archives Clin. Neuropsychol. 213 (2007).

May 2007

Doug published:

• Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006) (symposium).
• Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Academy of Psych. & L. 34 (2007), which provoked favorable commentary in Gregory B. Leong, Commentary: Restorability of Incompetence to Stand Trial-Implications Beyond Predictive Equations, 35 J. Am. Academy of Psych. & L. 44 (2007).
• Lessons from Va. Tech: Focus on Treatment, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 29, 2007.

Doug delivered introductory remarks, Significance of Research on the Human Genome, at the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry symposium, Law, Ethics, Psychiatry, and the Human Genome Project.

Two of Doug's articles were cited:

• Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Jamie Mickelson, "Unspeakable Justice": The Oswaldo Martinez Case and the Failure of the Legal System to Adequately Provide for Incompetent Defendants, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 2075 (2007).
• The Psychiatrist and Execution Competency: Fording Murky Ethical Waters, 43 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1 (1992), in Scott W. Howe, Furman's Mythical Mandate, 40 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 435 (2007).

Doug was quoted in Disturbing Writing, or First Hint of Killer-to-Be?, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 22, 2007, at 1A.

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