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Brian Crowley, M.D.

Dr. Crowley, a Yale Medical School alumnus and graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, has been practicing psychiatry — clinical, forensic, and administrative-- for more than forty years. He is in private practice in Washington, D.C. where he sees adolescents, adults, and couples for consultation and treatment. He also serves as psychiatrist to the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Clinical Center at Walter Reed, for which he was awarded the Army Certificate of Achievement by the Commanding General, North American Regional Medical Command. His work at Walter Reed involves clinical services with troops returning from downrange, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his forensic practice, which is both extensive and varied, he has served as psychiatric consultant, examiner, and expert witness in all types of civil and criminal cases, in the courts of several states (CA, DC, DE, FL, KY, LA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WI, WV) as well as in courts martial and federal courts. He has worked on matters of all kinds where state of mind is at issue. In the past few years he has been called upon to serve as a civilian expert in military courts martial. His recent civilian cases have involved issues of: malpractice; personal injury; sexual harassment; testamentary capacity and undue influence; sexual misconduct by professionals; stalking; suicide; hospital standards; dangerousness assessments in the workplace; fitness for duty; criminal responsibility; competence for trial; presentencing recommendations to Court; eligibility for release from incarceration.

Dr. Crowley teaches medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, where he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry. In 2003 he was given the Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education by the American Psychiatric Association. He is actively involved in the USUHS clinical research team which leads in the study of PTSD and other stress disorders. As part of the USUHS team Dr. Crowley has examined the acute and long-term responses to serious motor vehicle accidents and other collaborative studies between USUHS and Suburban Hospital.

Active in leadership roles in psychiatric organizations, Dr. Crowley is a Past President of the Washington Psychiatric Society, and currently serves as Chairman of the WPS Ethics Committee. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, as well as Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. In the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, he has been honored by election to the Executive Council, and previously served on the Committee on Peer Review of Psychiatric Testimony. For three terms he was Chair, Guttmacher Award Board — the joint committee of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law which annually judges and awards the prize for the best contribution to the literature of forensic psychiatry. He currently serves on the Isaac Ray Award Committee, which selects a person who has made outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry or to the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence. Dr. Crowley was previously Chairman and Medical Director, Department of Psychiatry, at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, and now serves on the hospital's Emeritus Staff.