Brian Crowley, M.D.
Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis
Dr. Crowley, a Yale Medical School alumnus and graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, has been practicing psychiatry-- clinical, forensic, and administrative-- for more than forty years. His office is on upper Connecticut Avenue in Washington, DC, where he sees adults, adolescents, and couples for consultation and treatment.
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, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WI, WV) as well as in federal courts and courts martial. 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; PTSD; trauma and stress; sexual misconduct by professionals; stalking; 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. He was honored by receiving 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. Dr. Crowley is a member of the Center For the Study of Traumatic Stress. 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.
Active in leadership roles in psychiatric organizations, Dr. Crowley is a Past President of the Washington Psychiatric Society and currently Chair of its Ethics Committee; Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; and Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. In the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, he has been elected to the Executive Council, and earlier 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 annually selects a person who has made outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry or to the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence.
Dr. Crowley has been selected to run for the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (Area III Trustee) in the 2009-2010 election.
Contact Information:
Brian Crowley, M.D.
5225 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 215
Washington, DC 20015
Phone 202-537-3300
Fax 301-365-8644
e-mail: BcrowleyMD@Aol.Com
www.drcrowley.yourmd.com
(Updated October 2009)
