Dr. Nicole Brooks is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A. 2011) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (M.D. 2016). She completed residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in addition to subspecialty fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Brooks was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry (2020) and Forensic Psychiatry (2021). She currently practices clinical and forensic psychiatry, licensed as a Physician and Surgeon by the State of Texas since 2019, and by the State of California since 2020.

She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford University, and a Clinical Faculty member in Stanford University’s Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship. She works full-time in the outpatient psychiatry specialty clinics, interventional clinics, and the assessment and training clinics specializing in the comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to mood disorders. She also teaches and supervises Stanford University medical students, Psychiatry residents, and Forensic Psychiatry fellows.

Dr. Brooks’ areas of interest include mood disorders, adult civil and criminal competencies, criminal responsibility, violence and risk assessments, psychiatric injury, and malpractice in outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and correctional psychiatry. She is broadly trained and has performed diverse forensic psychiatry evaluations with use of psychological assessment instruments. She has been qualified as an expert in the field of psychiatry in adult courts in the State of California.

Dr. Brooks has been an independent contractor to fpamed since 2022.

References available upon request.