Alexander Posell, M.D., is dual board-certified in general and forensic psychiatry. He practices in New York City. Dr. Posell provides independent forensic psychiatric evaluations and consultation in criminal, civil, family-court, immigration, disability, administrative, and other legal matters.
Dr. Posell received his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and completed psychiatry residency at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, where he served as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed an ACGME-accredited fellowship in forensic psychiatry at New York University, with training through Bellevue Hospital, Rikers Island, Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, and the New York City Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation Court Clinics (FPECC). His fellowship experience included competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility and mitigation, mental-health-court and alternative-to-incarceration evaluations, CPL §330.20 retention and dangerousness evaluations, Assisted Outpatient Treatment proceedings, treatment-over-objection and hospital-retention matters, correctional psychiatry, civil assessments, and expert testimony.
He currently conducts CPL 730 competency-to-stand-trial evaluations for the New York City Criminal Courts through FPECC (the five boroughs' Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation Court Clinics). His other forensic work has included:
• Immigration competency, asylum, and Convention Against Torture claims
• VAWA and intimate-partner-violence matters
• Family Court proceedings
• Psychiatric damages and disability matters
• Firearm licensure evaluations
Dr. Posell has performed forensic evaluations in immigration and human-rights matters since 2018. He co-founded the Keck Human Rights Clinic at the University of Southern California and continues to work with Physicians for Human Rights and SUNY Downstate in connection with asylum and human-rights evaluations. He has also served as a trainer and resident coordinator in this work. His experience includes psychiatric evaluation of trauma-related symptoms, functional impairment, and other psychiatric findings relevant to immigration proceedings, as well as preparation of medico-legal affidavits and declarations.
In addition to his forensic practice, Dr. Posell maintains an active general psychiatric practice. His clinical work includes outpatient psychiatric evaluation and treatment in private-practice and community settings, with experience spanning mood, anxiety, trauma-related, psychotic, attentional, substance-related, and other psychiatric conditions. He has also practiced in emergency, consultation-liaison, and inpatient psychiatry.
Before medicine, Dr. Posell worked as a musician, DJ, record producer, writer, editor, day laborer, furniture mover, sound designer, runway show producer, bartender, and in assorted retail and service jobs. He has toured extensively in the United States and abroad, spent years training in various martial arts and currently holds a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
