Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D.

About Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D.

Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D. specializes in the application of scientific and clinical expertise to legal issues in legal contexts embracing civil, criminal, and correctional matters. He is a Clinical and Forensic Psychiatrist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Services

Pogos H. Voskanian, M.D. provides expert witness services for defense, prosecution, courts, insurance companies, and governmental agencies in areas including:

- Mental state at the time of the offense evaluations
- Insanity defense / diminished capacity
- Capital sentencing & mitigation
- Civil & criminal competency evaluations
- Competency to stand trial
- Testamentary capacity
- Testimonial capacity
- Informed consent
- Competency to refuse treatment
- Risk of violence assessments
- Suicide risk assessment
- Sex offenders
- Sexual harassment
- Independent medical evaluations / psychiatric disability
- Personal injury / pain & suffering / emotional distress
- Workplace violence assessments
- Discrimination
- Evaluations under Americans with disabilities act
- Fitness for duty
- Toxic tort
- Product liability
- Workers' compensation
- Psychiatric malpractice:
Failure to obtain information
Failure to appropriately diagnose
Failure to treat
Negligent use of psycho-pharmacologic agents or of psychotherapy
Negligent failure to prevent patients from harming themselves or others
Sexual misconduct
Failure to obtain informed consent
Violations of civil rights
False imprisonment
Restraints and Seclusion
Breach of confidentiality
Abandonment
Negligence in supervision

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Pogos H. Voskanian has served as an evaluator, consultant or expert witness in over a thousand civil and criminal cases. Forensic Psychiatry Services can be provided at the request by Plaintiff, Defense, Prosecution, Courts, Insurance Companies and Governmental Agencies: Insanity Defense/Criminal Responsibility, Competency to Stand Trial, Diminished Capacity, Capital Sentencing/Mitigation, Violence Risk, Suicide Risk, Correctional Psychiatry, Juvenile Transfer, Testamentary Capacity, Testimonial Capacity, Disability Evaluations, Workers' Compensation, Psychiatric Malpractice/Standards of Care/Medical Record Review, Americans with Disabilities Act/ADA, Sexual Harassment Discrimination, Workplace Violence Assessments, Malingering.

Areas of Expertise

Addictions
Agoraphobia
Alcohol
Alzheimer's Disease
Amnesia
Anxiety Disorders
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Competency
Criminal Responsibility
Dementia
Depressive Disorders
Diminished Capacity
Dissociative Disorders
Drug Addiction
Eating Disorders
Forensic Medicine

Forensic Psychiatry
Forensic Psychology
Insanity Defense
Medical
Medical Malpractice
Mental Health
Mood Disorders
Munchausen's Syndrome
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychology
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Panic Disorder
Patient Rights
Personality Disorders
Pharmacology
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Postpartum Depression
Psychiatric Evaluation
Psychiatric Malpractice
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Schizophrenia
Self-Injury
Sensory Deprivation
Sexual Addiction
Sexual Disorders
Substance Abuse
Suicide
Testamentary Capacity
Toxicology
Violence

Profile

Dr. Voskanian is an associate professor of Psychiatry at Drexel/formerly MCP Hahnemann University Medical School, where he directs and teaches the Psychiatry and Law Program. Dr. Voskanian has extensive clinical and forensic experience. He has served as the program director of the Philadelphia Prison System Mental Health Services, and has also served as the director of Psychiatry and Law program at the Medical College of Virginia. He is active in multiple professional organizations and serves on various committees.

Currently in private practice he consults for Forensic Aftercare Programs in Philadelphia, provides treatment for dually diagnosed patients and has an extensive clinical practice. He is also consultant for State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, and State of Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs.

Dr. Voskanian graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1992, and completed Psychiatry Residency Program and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Tulane University Medical Center. Dr. Voskanian is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry with added qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry.