Dr. Saleh’s forensic practice focuses on criminal and civil cases involving adult and child & adolescent forensic psychiatry.
Dr. Saleh provides consultations to lawyers and other representatives of the judicial system. He has been qualified on numerous occasions as an expert witness and has testified in Federal, Superior, District, Probate, and Juvenile Courts. He has also testified before Medical Boards and the Sex Offender Registry Board.
Dr. Saleh's expertise in the field of forensic psychiatry encompasses independent medical evaluations and expert testimony in cases involving criminal and civil matters. These include but are not limited to the following:
Criminal Areas:
- · Expert Witness/Testifying
- · Competency to Stand Trial
- · Criminal Responsibility and Diminished Capacity
- · Sexual (SDP/SVP) and Non-Sexual Dangerousness
Civil Areas:
- · Competency evaluations - to consent to (emergency) treatment, etc.
- · Involuntary hospitalization
- · Negligence & Malpractice
- · Personal Injury
- · Mental illness, intellectual disability, and/or substance abuse within the forensic framework
- · Sexual disorders including but not limited to paraphilias
- · Threat/Risk Assessment and Risk Management
- · Capacity and Guardianship
- · Use and Misuse of Electronvulsive Treatment (ECT)
Other:
- · Fitness for duty evaluations
- · Malingering/Dissimulation
- · Treatment programming within the forensic and clinical framework
- · Appropriate use/misuse of psychoactive medications in children and the elderly
- · Workplace violence
- · Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry