Legal Experts

Welcome to the Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences legal expert witness page. Our available experts are listed below with a summary of their credentials. The following policies apply per department regulations:

  • Once provider accepts case from a legal firm, department will submit retainer invoice on behalf of provider.
  • As the case moves along, provider will keep track of service dates, hours and service description.
  • Department will invoice firm periodically or when the case closes based on service hours & fee schedule.

Legal Expert Team

Sanjay G. Adhia, MD, MRO
Sanjay G. Adhia, MD, is board-certified in forensic psychiatry, brain injury medicine, and psychiatry. He sees patients for emotional distress, mental health injuries, and brain injury concerns that may be triggered by factors such as personal injury, undue influence, changed competency, medical malpractice, physical and emotional abuse, violence, or criminal behavior. His clinical focus is treating the neuropsychiatric complications of brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury.

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Elaheh Ashtari, PsyDElaheh Ashtari, PsyD
Dr. Elaheh Ashtari is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist and is the Chief of Psychology Services at UTHealth- Dunn Behavioral Sciences Campus, where she oversees the operations of the inpatient psychology service. Her clinical interests include malingering, forensic psychology and assessment, recidivism, dual diagnoses, trauma informed care, and personality disorders.

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Amy Garcia, PhDAmy K. Garcia, PhD, NCSP
Amy Garcia, PhD, NCSP specializes in the assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across the lifespan. Garcia also has an active role in supervising practicum students, interns, and postdoctoral fellows and hopes to instill the same passion for helping individuals with autism and their families.

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Samantha Guzman, PsyDSamantha Guzman, PsyD
Dr. Guzman's clinical interests include clinical and forensic assessment, including competency to stand trial evaluations and restoration. She has completed both criminal and civil forensic evaluations, which include competency to stand trial and fitness to proceed, insanity and lack of responsibility, certification and transfer, mitigation, psychological damages, disability, violence risk, threat assessment, and psychosexual evaluations.

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Dr. Jennifer Hughes photoJennifer Hughes, PhD,
Dr. Jennifer Hughes specializes in the assessment and treatment of trauma and PTSD in children and adults. She is trained in multiple evidence-based treatments for PTSD, including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE).

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Nesreen Ibrahim, MD, MBANesreen Ibrahim, MD, MBA
Dr. Ibrahim serves as an Expert Panelist on the Texas Medical board. She has an extensive experience in several clinical areas of Psychiatry including Autism, Developmental Delays, ADHD, Mood and Psychotic disorders.

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Dr. Lisa KanLisa Y. Kan, PhD
Dr. Kan is a licensed psychologist in Texas and Virginia. She has expertise in forensic mental health assessments of criminal defendants (e.g., competence to stand trial). She also has experience with psychological evaluations and psychotherapy with adults.

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Dr. Deborah LittleDeborah M. Little, PhD
Dr. Little's area of expertise includes: effects of mild to severe brain injury on cognition and behavior; quantitative assessments of the effects of brain injury on brain structure; traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for depression, degenerative changes to the brain; pre- and co-morbid conditions that impact the ability to document changes to the brain due to trauma.

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Nubia Lluberes, MD, CCHP-MH, FAPANubia G. Lluberes Rincon MD CCHP-MH, FAPA
Dr. Lluberes is passionate about providing care for the most vulnerable patients, the incarcerated mentally ill. Dr. Lluberes is a certified correctional mental health professional (CCHP-MH) by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). She has served as a psychiatric physician consultant to various penal systems and lectured on various medical/legal and forensic psychiatric topics.

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Bobby Nix, M.D.Bobby R. Nix, MD
Dr. Nix provides expertise in cases involving patients with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and co-morbid substance abuse. Additionally, he is experienced with state medical board cases regarding psychiatrists complaints about standard of care. Age range 18-65.


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Dr. Selek ECTSalih Selek, MD
Dr. Selek has been working in one of the largest academic teaching hospital as inpatient psychiatrist and specializes in mood disorders, especially treatment refractory mood disorders. He has been certified in Medical Quality designated by American Board of Medical Quality, having practiced medicine in Turkey, Germany, and the United States with diverse patients.

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Dr. Lokesh ShahaniLokesh Shahani, MD, MPH, FACP
Dr. Lokesh Shahani is a dual trained and practicing psychiatrist and Internist and board certified by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He serves as the Chief Medical Officer and the Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Program at the UTHealth Harris County Psychiatric Center. His area of expertise include geriatric psychiatry and hospital administration.

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Dr. Leslie TaylorLeslie K. Taylor, PhD
Leslie K. Taylor, PhD is a licensed psychologist in state of Texas and has special expertise in identifying and evaluating trauma in children and adolescents. Her clinical caseload is composed of children and adolescents who have survived sexual abuse, physical abuse, natural disasters, or traumatic bereavements.

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