Elizabeth Ford

Elizabeth Ford, MD, is the chief of psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York City's Health and Hospitals and a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. She is a recognized nationa expert in issues related to incarceration and mental illness and teaches extensively about these topics. She was formerly the director of forensic psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, specializing in the treatment of individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system, and the director of the NYU Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, as well as the editor of Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry, a book about seminal US Supreme Court cases related to psychiatry.