Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Scott Bender, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Scott Bender, Ph.D., is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist (ABPP-CN) and is Associate Professor of both Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Science and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He teaches postdoctoral fellows and conducts evaluations for the Neurocognitive Assessment Laboratory, and provides instruction on forensic neuropsychological assessment in criminal and civil settings, dissimulation, and assessment of civil competencies.
Richard Bonnie, Director, Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy
Richard Bonnie, L.L.B., has served as Institute Director since 1979, and is Harrison Foundation Professor of Law and Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy. Prof. Bonnie is an expert in the fields of criminal law and procedure, mental health and drug law, public health law, and bioethics.
Bruce Cohen, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Bruce Cohen, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Virginia. He is board-certified in both General Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He directs the Forensic Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
Shelly Jackson, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Shelly Jackson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. Her work has focused on financial abuse of the elderly, juvenile competence and family violence.
John Monahan, Professor of Law
John Monahan, Ph.D., is a psychologist who joined the University of Virginia Law School faculty in 1980. He now holds the John S. Shannon Distinguished Professorship in Law. He is an expert in the fields of social science in law, forensic psychiatry, mental health, mental disorders, violence, competence, mental hospitals, criminology, and law and psychiatry.
Daniel Murrie, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Daniel Murrie, Ph.D., serves as Institute Director of Psychology. He oversees the ILPPP’s training programs in forensic evaluation and the postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology. As a clinician, he performs forensic evaluations in criminal and civil cases through the ILPPP’s Forensic Psychiatry Clinic. As a scholar, his research and teaching address a variety of topics in forensic assessment and in juvenile justice.
Eileen Ryan, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Eileen Ryan, D.O., is a psychiatrist board-certified in General, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry. She provides lectures for the Institute's training programs and conducts psychiatric evaluations for the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic. Her areas of expertise are violence and risk assessment, criminal responsibility, civil and criminal competence, independent medical evaluation, malpractice and child custody and visitation.
Janet Warren, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Janet Warren, D.S.W., is a Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. She is the University of Virginia's liaison to the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI, an associate at Park Dietz and Associates, and a practicing psychoanalyst in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Associate Faculty
Jeffrey Aaron , Clinical Psychologist
Jeffrey Aaron, Ph.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences and in the Curry School of Education. He is a psychologist and forensic coordinator at CCCA, Virginia's public psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. Dr. Aaron lectures often in ILPPP training programs, and has a private forensic practice. Areas of forensic specialization include evaluation of confessions, mitigation, posttraumatic stress, and juvenile justice.
Dewey Cornell, Professor, Curry School of Education
Dewey Cornell, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. He is a forensic clinical psychologist with interests in youth violence and school safety. He teaches graduate courses in personality assessment, forensic psychology, and related topics, and directs the Virginia Youth Violence Project.
Jane Hickey, Attorney
Jane Hickey, J.D., is formerly Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Health Services Section, Virginia Office of the Attorney General. She currently provides lectures to Institute training programs and is the Editor of the Institute's newsletter Developments in Mental Health Law.
J. Anderson Thomson, Psychiatrist, Student Health Services
Andy Thomson, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is also a staff psychiatrist at Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Virginia Student Health Services.
Staff
Lynn Daidone Boyter, Institute Administrator
Lynn Boyter serves as Institute Administrator, and is responsible for fiscal management, budget planning/development, pre and post-award research grant development and management, Institute staffing and facility management.
Edward Strickler, Institute Programs Coordinator, and Managing Editor, Developments in Mental Health Law
Edward Strickler, Jr., MA, MA, MPH, CHES, has served for more than a dozen years as Programs Coordinator- involved in every aspect of Institute-sponsored training programs, symposiums, and conferences - as Managing Editor of Developments in Mental Health Law, and in other support of the mission of the Institute.