Christopher R. Thompson, MD

Chief of Forensic Psychiatry, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Dr. Thompson is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. He is also certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Thompson has had a private practice in West Los Angeles for over 10 years. He completed his Psychiatry Residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, his Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry in Sacramento, CA, and his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. He was certified in Addiction Medicine in 2009.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Thompson CR. A Seat at the Table. The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2019 Mar;47(1):12-21.

• Wall BW, Ash P, Keram E, Pinals DA, Thompson CH. AAPL Practice Resource for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial. The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2018 Sep;46(3):373.

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