Dr. Mossman joined the UC College of Law and the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry in June 2005.  In July 2008, he returned to the Department of Psychiatry at the UC College of Medicine to become Volunteer Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Psychiatry and Law.  From 1993 until 2008, he was Professor and Director of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.

Dr. Mossman's academic activities include teaching physicians, law students and attorneys about the interface between psychiatry and the law.  In his clinical practice, Dr. Mossman specializes in performing evaluations of adults and children for use in legal proceedings. In May 2008, he received the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his outstanding contributions to the literature in forensic psychiatry.  He also is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA, a former councilor of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and past-president of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

In addition to teaching courses, Dr. Mossman has given more than 200 lectures and presentations to medical, legal and nonprofessional audiences at local, regional, national and international meetings. His continuing medical education lectures have dealt with issues in law and psychiatry, psychopharmacology, medical decision-making and medical ethics. His presentations to attorneys and judges have focused on mental disorders and mental-health testimony. His 100-plus publications cover a wide range of topics, including legal and ethical issues, medical decision-making, statistics and psychiatric treatment.

Dr. Mossman's current scholarly projects investigate prediction of violence and sex-offender recidivism, competence to divorce, assessing competence to stand trial, legal developments related to novel antipsychotic drugs and police interrogations.

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Recent Publications

Articles:
Commentary: Assessing the risk of violence – are "accurate" predictions useful? J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2000;28:272-281
Conventional and atypical antipsychotics and the evolving standard of care, Psychiatric Services 2000;51:1528-1535 (with DS Lehrer)
The meaning of malingering data: further applications of Bayes's Theorem. Behav Sci Law 2000;18:761-779
‘A fool for a client': print portrayals of 49 pro se criminal defendants. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2001; 29:408-419 (with NW Dunseith, Jr.)
Unbuckling the "chemical straitjacket": The legal significance of recent advances in the pharmacological treatment of psychosis. 39 San Diego Law Review 1033 (2002)
Psychiatry in the courtroom. The Public Interest Winter 2003;150:22-37
Daubert, cognitive malingering, and test accuracy. 27 Law and Human Behavior 229 (2003)   
Atkins v. Virginia: A psychiatric can of worms. 33 New Mexico Law Review 255 (2003)
Is prosecution "medically appropriate"? 31 New Engl on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005); 31:15-80
Tests of a symptom checklist to screen for comorbid psychiatric disorders in alcoholism. Comprehensive Psychiatry 2006; 47:227-233 (with Benjamin AB, Graves NS, Sanders RD)
Another look at interpreting risk categories. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 2006; 18:41-63
Critique of pure risk assessment, or Kant meets Tarasoff. University of Cincinnati Law Review 2006; 75:523-609 (winner, 2008 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award)
Predicting restorability of incompetent criminal defendants. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2007; 35:34-43
Analyzing the performance of risk assessment instruments: A response to Vrieze and Grove (2007). Law and Human Behavior 2008; 32: 279-291  
Tips to make documentation easier, faster and more satisfying.  Current Psychiatry 2008;7(2):80, 84-86
Conceptualizing and characterizing accuracy in assessments of competence to stand trial.  J Am Acad Psychiatry Law (in press)
Evaluate liability risks in prescribing.  Current Psychiatry 2008;7(4):91, 96-98
Violence risk: Is clinical judgment enough?  Current Psychiatry 2008;7(6):66, 70-72

Guideline:
AAPL practice guideline for the forensic psychiatric evaluation of competence to stand trial.  J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2007;35(Suppl 4):S3-S72 (with Drs. Noffsinger, Ash, Frierson, Gerbasi, Hackett, Lewis, Pinals, Scott, Sieg, Wall, and Zonana)

Chapters:
Understanding prediction instruments. In The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry (Simon RI, Gold LH, eds.), pp. 501-523. Washington: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004
Forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology: ethics. In Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine (Payne-James J, Byard RW, Corey TS, and Henderson C, eds.), pp. 359-364. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005
Child psychiatry and the law. In Clinical Child Psychiatry, Second Edition (Klykylo WM, Kay J, eds.), pp. 530-551. Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2005
Pharmacological considerations in the treatment of conduct disorder. In Conduct Disorders: A Practitioner’s Guide to Comparative Treatments (Nelson WM III, Finch AJ Jr, and Hart KJ, eds.), pp. 299-320. New York, Springer, 2006 (with Weston CG)
Stalking, competence to stand trial, and criminal responsibility. In Stalking: Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches (Pinals DA, ed.), pp. 164-191. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007