Patricia Westmoreland MD

Dr Westmoreland is an attending psychiatrist at Eating Recovery Center in Denver and practices forensic psychiatry practice in Denver, CO. She attended medical school at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and received her MBBCh (MD) IN 1995. She completed a brain imaging research fellowship, as well as a residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and an Endocrinology Fellowship at the University of Iowa. In July 2012, she graduated from the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado. Dr Westmoreland is Board certified in General Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), President-Elect of the Colorado Psychiatric Society (CPS), Chair of the Colorado Physicians for Mental health Political Action Committee, and a representative to the APA Assembly. In 2018, she will begin serving as a councillor to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) and Chair or the AAPL Suicidology committee. Her interests include ethical and legal challenges in managing patients with severe eating disorders, psychiatric evaluation and management of medically ill patients, and the intersection between psychiatry and the law.