Gregory B. SaathoffGregory B. Saathoff, M.D. is Associate Professor of Research in Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. A veteran of the First Gulf War, he has treatedmale and female violent and nonviolent prison inmates who suffer from mental illness since 1991. He also serves as Executive Director of the University of Virginia’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG). In this capacity, he directs the group, which operates as a “ThinkNet” that provides multidisciplinary expertise in developing strategies that can prevent or mitigate the effects of critical incidents.He has written The Negotiator’s Guide to Psychotropic Drugs for the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, and he was a co-author of the FBI’s threat assessment monograph: The School Shooter. In addition to this, he has published in the areas of personality disorders, police psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorders, public response to weapons of mass destruction, and biologic psychiatry. He assembled and led a University of Virginia medical team that served as the U.S. component of the international medical group charged with diagnosis and treatment of President Viktor Yuschenko who was poisoned in 2004. He has served as an expert witness on espionage and terrorist-related cases in federal court. Since 1996 he has served as a Conflict Resolution Specialist, and in 2006, he was appointed to the Research Advisory Board of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Dr. Saathoff received M.D at the University of Missouri and completed his residency in Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Read More Read Less