Brian Crowley, M.D.

Dr. Crowley, a Yale Medical School alumnus and graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, has been practicing psychiatry — clinical, forensic, and administrative-- for forty years. He is in private practice in Washington, D.C. where he sees adolescents, adults, and couples for consultation and treatment. He also treats inpatients at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where he is Senior Attending and Past Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.

In his forensic practice, which is both extensive and varied, he has served as psychiatric consultant, examiner, and expert witness in all types of civil and criminal cases, in the courts of several states (CA, DC, FL, KY, LA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WV) as well as federal courts. He has worked on matters of all kinds where state of mind is at issue. His recent cases have involved issues of: malpractice; personal injury; sexual harassment; testamentary capacity and undue influence; sexual misconduct by professionals; stalking; suicide; hospital standards; dangerousness assessments in the workplace; fitness for duty; criminal responsibility; competence for trial; presentencing recommendations to Court; eligibility for release from incarceration.

Dr. Crowley teaches medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, where he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Recently he received the Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education from the American Psychiatric Association. He is actively involved in the USUHS clinical research team which leads in the study of PTSD and other stress disorders. As part of the USUHS team Dr. Crowley has examined the acute and long-term responses to serious motor vehicle accidents. He also serves as psychiatrist to the Department of Defense’s Deployment Health Clinical Center at Walter Reed, for which he was awarded the Army Certificate of Achievement by the Commanding General, North American Regional Medical Command. His work at Walter Reed involves working with returning veterans from the Persian Gulf War.

Active in leadership roles in psychiatric organizations, Dr. Crowley is a Past President of the Washington Psychiatric Society; Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis; and Member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, where he served on the Committee on Peer Review of Psychiatric Testimony. For three terms he was Chair, Guttmacher Award Board — the joint committee of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law which annually judges and awards the prize for the best contribution to the literature of forensic psychiatry. He currently serves on the Isaac Ray Award Committee, which selects a person who has made outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry or to the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence.