Areas of Expertise: Forensic Psychiatry; Traumatic Brain Injury; Pharmacology; Psychiatric Evaluations; Behavioral Neurology; Neuropsychiatry; Geriatric Psychiatry; Disabled & Elder Abuse; Psychopharmacology & Neuropsychopharmacology; Sexual Abuse, Misconduct; Forensic Psychology; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — PTSD; Psychiatric Hospital Administration; Psychiatry, General; Psychosomatic Medicine; Addiction Psychiatry; Workplace Violence; Health & Safety; Sexual Harassment; Wrongful Termination; Discrimination; Drug Abuse; Alcohol Abuse; Addiction Medicine & Substance Abuse; Drug Testing; Drug & Alcohol Testing; Child Abuse; Sexual Abuse & Assault; Sanity & Trial Competency; Stalking; Alcohol, Drugs, DUI; Domestic Violence; Spousal Abuse; Estate & Gift Taxes; Estates & Trusts; Testamentary Capacity.
Dr. Adhia is triple-Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine and Psychiatry. He assesses emotional distress and mental health injuries as well as brain injury concerns. Triggers considered are personal injury, undue influence, changed competency, medical malpractice, physical and emotional abuse, violence, and criminal behavior. He has testified in over 30 cases and issues forensic opinions in many more cases that have settled.
Dr. Adhia is the Associate Program Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Texas Health and Sciences Center, McGovern Medical School in Houston. In clinical practice he treats patients at TIRR Memorial Hermann where his focus is treating the neuropsychiatric complications of brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury. Previously he served as the Medical Director of PACE Mental Health.
Dr. Adhia has routinely testified about these conditions and psychiatric conditions. He conducts independent medical examinations, reports nad testimony about psychiatric and emotional distress damages and factors in cases such as undue influence and criminal competency.
Dr. Adhia has been appointed by Governor Abbott as an Advisor on the Committee to the Texas Board Of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.
Dr. Adhia also has clinical experience in high-risk and security-sensitive settings, maximum-security prisons and correctional psychiatric hospitals, inmates on Death Row and segregated in Isolation. Dr. Adhia also volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights — Asylum Network and Daya Houston, conducting forensic assessments of victims of kidnapping and false imprisonment, human trafficking, undue influence, physical and sexual abuse, and rape.
Dr. Adhia is skilled in evaluating PTSD, Anxiety and Depressive Disorders, risk of suicide, and malingering. He is experienced in the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on decision-making. In psychiatric hospitals, Dr. Adhia treats psychosis: Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders (hallucinations, delusions.)
Dr. Adhia's findings consider complicating factors, such as emotional distress worsened by physical and emotional isolation from family and support (e.g., prisoner or elder.) Pre-existing mental and physical illness, competency and capacity (e.g. dementia, Intellectual Disability) and medication or addiction may also be relevant to his opinions.
Dr. Adhia opines about medical malpractice and standard of care, including in government-regulated and institutional settings.
Dr. Adhia conducts Independent Medical Examinations and review of records, issuing his med-legal findings by report, testimony or private consultation. Dr. Adhia is available to testify as an expert witness in civil, criminal, military, probate, Federal, Immigration and administrative jurisdictions.