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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:black">Dr. Reid is a forensic psychiatrist with experience in high-profile cases around the U.S., including many that involve mass killings. He has been retained both in the criminal process and in the civil litigation that sometimes occurs after trial. In 2018, he published <em>A Dark Night in Aurora</em> (New York: Skyhorse), a general readership account of the Aurora, Colorado, theater shootings, perpetrator James Holmes, the trial and its aftermath. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:black"> Over the past several decades, in addition to his academic appointments and forensic work, Dr. Reid has published 16 other books & editions, over 200 professional papers and chapters, and various multimedia & online teaching tools. He was the first medical director of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, founded and chaired the National Council of State Medical Directors, is a past-president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, was Special Assistant to the UT System Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Center Affairs, and developed the Texas Forum, a sporadic gathering of public sector officials, academic representatives and funding bodies to discuss mental health and developmental disabilities.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:black"> Today, in addition to other activities, he lives and works with his wife in Horseshoe Bay, works with Dr. Obikoya and her team in the UT Southwestern Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, is negotiating publication of his 19<sup>th</sup> book (a novel), and plays blues guitar in sleazy bars.</span></span></span></p>
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Type of financial relationship:There are no financial relationships to disclose.Date added:01/04/2022Date updated:03/06/2024
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