Sanjay Adhia, MD, MRO, is triple-Board-Certified in Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry. In addition to forensic/expert witness practice, Dr. Adhia treats patients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and recovery from stroke at renowned TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital.
His forensic practice focuses on the psychiatric factors and damages in cases of personal injury, medical malpractice, toxic exposure, testamentary capacity, undue influence and Dementia, TBI Brain injuries, competency, mental illness and complicating medical conditions.
Dr. Adhia treats and opines about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in litigation as it can result in psychiatric or neurocognitive impairments.
In all populations, he assesses PTSD, Anxiety, Depressive Disorders, risk of suicide, and malingering.
Dr. Adhia is Associate Program Director for the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center, McGovern School of Medicine where he is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry mentor to residents.
Dr. Adhia volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights to assess victims of kidnapping and false imprisonment, human trafficking, undue influence, physical and sexual abuse, rape, and fear of imminent death.
He conducts Independent Medical Examinations, review of records, and reports findings to courts and attorneys. He is available to testify in civil, criminal, probate, Federal, Immigration, military, and administrative jurisdictions.
Adhia & Associates also includes Kerry Mendes, MD—a Texas-based psychiatrist triple Board-Certified in General, Child & Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry—and Pia Quimson-Guevarra, DO, double Board-Certified in General and Forensic Psychiatry and licensed in Oregon and Washington.
Drs. Mendes and Quimson-Guevarra also maintain active clinical practices alongside their forensic work: Dr. Mendes treats patients in Houston at Avenue360, and Dr. Quimson-Guevarra as director of Quimson Behavioral Health in Portland.
- Violence
- Sexual abuse
- Malpractice and Standard of Care
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Dementia and IDD
- Psychopharmacology
- Competency
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- Suicide
- Psychiatric Injury
- Will Contest
- Correctional
- Fitness for Duty
- Brain Injury
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By: Dr. Sanjay Adhia
Dementia encompasses degenerative disorders to the brain. It can be subtle and fluctuate in severity even from day to day. It can accompany genetic factors, or be associated with an injury or repeated injuries to the brain and head. It is serious and marked by symptoms that can impair making informed decisions or manage the most basic tasks we take for granted in living our daily lives.
By: Dr. Sanjay Adhia
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA) is the use of drugs and/or alcohol by a sexual predator to render a victim incapacitated and unable to fight back against a sexual assault. A side effect of many "Date Rape" or "Club Drugs" is also anterograde amnesia, the inability to recall what happened while drugged, increasing a predator's belief he will "get away with it." Those odds are shifting, but attorneys, Courts and potential victims are better served if they understand some of the drugs used and their impact on mind and body.
