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Hot Topics in Forensics
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
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A Presentation by the NYCPS Forensic Committee

Hot Topics in Forensics

Insanity Defense and Orders of Protection

Karen Rosenbaum, M.D. will outline the Insanity Defense in New York State as illustrated through an infamous case of the NYC nanny who killed two children in her care on the Upper West Side in a psychotic state in October of 2012. She will take people through this case from 2012 through the 2018 trial and recent appeal process to show the difficulty of a successful insanity defense in NYC and the work required of the psychiatric expert in a complicated insanity defense. Jacob Appel, M.D. will cover orders of protection, often colloquially called restraining orders- a form of injunctive relief that originated in the 1970s and have since become an important tool for both family and criminal courts in addressing domestic conflict and intimate partner violence. They are also increasingly being used in non-familial disputes. This talk will explore the role of orders of protection in New York as well as the challenges they raise for psychiatric providers.

This presentation series will be held in remembrance of Henry C. Weinstein, M.D.

Event details
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
7:00 PM
Virtual- Via Zoom

This event is FREE for all NYCPS and APA Members. $30 for non-APA members payable in advance.

Jacob M. Appel, M.D. is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry, Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program and Assistant Director of the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities. Jacob is also the author of five literary novels, ten short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller, a volume of poems and a compendium of dilemmas in medical ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Mount Sinai, Jacob taught most recently at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Yeshiva College, where he was the writer-in-residence. He is co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s Committee on Psychiatry & Law and a judge for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Karen B. Rosenbaum, M.D. is a board certified general and forensic psychiatrist, and also board certified in Addiction Medicine. She is currently a vice president and program chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), a Fellow and past-chair of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences: Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatry Division where she also has served on the board of directors of the Academy, and a Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association. She is a clinical assistant professor at New York University Langone Medical Center where she teaches and supervises Forensic Psychiatry Fellows. She is also on faculty at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Weil Medical Center where she did her residency training. She earned her BA in Psychology with a minor in Music from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MD from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She currently has a private clinical and forensic psychiatry practice in the flatiron area of Manhattan.

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This event is sponsored by NYCPS Platinum Partner, PRMS.