Lawrence Belcher

Lawrence Belcher, MD—board-certified in adult and forensic psychiatry—is a Forensic Psychiatric Expert with Park Dietz & Associates. Harvard-trained and a former faculty member of Harvard Medical School, he is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. He holds a leadership position in forensic psychiatry with one of the country’s largest public mental health agencies and maintains medical licenses in New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio. He is an active member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, where he serves on several committees and task forces.

Dr. Belcher has been qualified as an expert numerous times by courts in Ohio and New York and has given testimony in multiple cases. In his clinical and teaching work, he specializes in severe mental illness (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder), and in his public sector role he is an expert in the treatment and monitoring of insanity acquittees.