Reema Dedania, MD, MPH

Dr. Reema Dedania graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Human Biology and later a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Health Policy from Emory. She then enrolled in medical school at Creighton University. After graduation, she moved to Nashville for her psychiatry residency training at Vanderbilt, where she served as a chief resident during her final year. Following postgraduate training, she worked as a staff psychiatrist at a treatment center specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders. Dr. Dedania then completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship through Case Western Reserve/University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH, prior to joining faculty at Emory University, where she is now the Associate Program Director for the forensic psychiatry fellowship on the Psychiatry & Law Service.

Dr. Dedania currently practices forensic psychiatry in Atlanta, Georgia. She conducts criminal and civil forensic evaluations and provides psychiatric treatment in two of the city’s jails, including a dedicated jail-based competency restoration unit. She specializes in cases involving correctional medicine, immigration, and contested diagnoses (particularly cases where malingered mental illness, psychosis, or OCD have been alleged). She has written over 100 court reports for civil and criminal proceedings. She also supervises forensic psychiatry fellows and provides training to rotating medical students and psychiatry residents on topics such as malingering, civil commitment, and risk assessments.

Dr. Dedania has published on a variety of forensic topics, and has lectured at local and national conferences on issues including competency to stand trial, correctional medicine, psychiatric malpractice, capital punishment, immigration law, the insanity defense, and conspiracy theories.

Dr. Dedania is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, with a certification in the subspecialty of Forensic Psychiatry. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), and the AAPL Human Rights/National Security committee.

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