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Douglas Mossman

Douglas Mossman MD

Psychiatry
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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Dr. Mossman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Program Director for the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has made hundreds of presentations to mental health professionals and attorneys at local, regional, national, and international meetings, and he has authored more than 175 publications on legal and ethical issues, medical decision-making, violence prediction, statistics, and psychiatric treatment. His article “Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff” received the American Psychiatric Association’s 2008 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for outstanding contributions to the literature on forensic psychiatry. Hundreds of scientific and legal publications have cited Dr. Mossman’s 1994 article, “Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy,” which was the first publication to apply receiver operating characteristic analysis to psycholegal problems.
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