Ryan Finkenbine, MD, has been appointed director of the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program at West Virginia University. Dr. Finkenbine recently joined the faculty of the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry in the WVU School of Medicine. He will also direct the consultation liaison service at West Virginia University Hospitals.
Forensic psychiatry is the study of the relationship between mental health and law.
Finkenbine will provide consultation and assessment for personal injury, medical malpractice, criminal competency and sanity, workers compensation, social security, fitness for duty evaluation, discrimination, domestic relations, workplace trauma, sexual harassment, post traumatic stress disorder, and other areas where legal issues intersect with mental health evaluation and treatment. Finkenbine, board certified in general psychiatry and forensics, received his training at the Medical University of South Carolina and completed his forensic fellowship at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He will provide assessment and evaluations at Chestnut Ridge Outpatient Services, Morgantown.