Ronald Schouten, M.D., J.D. is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a director of the Law and Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a director of the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship. He has extensive experience as a clinician, teacher, consultant to organizations, and has been an expert witness in both civil and criminal matters.

Dr. Schouten is a graduate of Haverford College, Boston University School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.

He has played a key role in the development of a number of innovations in the teaching of forensic mental health issues. These include a grand rounds program on mental health issues for Massachusetts judges, a Harvard Medical School Continuing Education Program held for legal professionals, the Harvard Medical School Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, and numerous teaching programs for the Law and Psychiatry Service and Harvard Medical School. He has served as a consultant and trainer for major corporations in the area of violence in the workplace and sexual harassment.

Dr. Schouten is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association and is a board-certified psychiatrist with added qualifications in forensic science. He also is the forensic science column editor for the Howard Review of Psychiatry. Dr. Schouten was also president of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry.