Dr. Sanjay G. Adhia, MD
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Office: 832-746-5905
Dr. Adhia is a triple Board-Certified Forensic Psychiatrist based in Houston, TX. He testifies nationally. He is uniquely Board-Certified in Forensic Psychiatry and Brain Injury Medicine in civil, criminal, and military jurisdictions.
Adolescent & Child Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr. Mendes, joined Adhia & Associates in 2022; he is licensed in California and Texas. His CV is attached to this profile.
Dr. Adhia has been retained in a range of cases for plaintiff and defense. Examples include Mass Tort and Toxic Tort (psychiatric damages associated with oil spill, chemical exposure), brain injury (competitive sports, personal injury), criminal competency (homicide, criminal and military courts), medical malpractice (clinic, hospital, and treaters), violence assessment (armed security personnel), sexual assault and the use of drugs (DFSA), psychiatric factors in capital crime (homicide), and in all cases, damages.
He has additional unique experience in cases that bridge psychiatry and brain injuries and diseases in clinical and forensic settings. Dr. Adhia is qualified to evaluate Traumatic Brain Injury, concussions, and Neurocognitive Disorders like Dementia.
Dr. Adhia and Dr. Mendes have active clinical practices as well as their forensic/expert witness work. They serve as Medical-Legal Consultants in case assessment They are qualified to evaluate cases as non-disclosed Experts and serve as disclosed Expert Witnesses.
They conduct psychiatric medical assessments, IMEs including a thorough review of medical and legal records to form well-reasoned findings and opinions.
Dr. Mendes is qualified to assess Adolescents and Children, as well as adults as a Psychiatrist. Both are available for testimony.
Dr. Adhia serves as an appointed member of the Texas Governor’s Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments.
Dr. Adhia is on the faculties of the University of Texas Health and Science Center, Department of Psychiatry and University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
In clinical practice, Dr. Adhia treats patients at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation and Research hospital working with those with psychiatric, brain injury, brain disease, and spinal cord injuries (TIRR Memorial Hermann is a national leader in medical rehabilitation.) He is also a former Medical Director of a Mental Health Clinic and a Psychiatrist in a maximum-security Correction Hospital. In his clinical work, he draws on significant expertise in psychopharmacology and proper medication management to treat mental illness. Dr. Adhia has treated hundreds of patients with complex and disabling psychiatric conditions intertwined with other health issues.
Dr. Adhia has conducted dozens of civil and fitness for duty assessments, and competency evaluations: probate, testamentary capacity, competency to stand trial, and NGRI cases.
Before turning to the private sector, Dr. Adhia treated mentally ill men in the correctional system including psychiatric hospital, the Jester IV prison, Supermax facility Polunsky Unit, and death row inmates, treating some of the most violent and mentally ill offenders. He has significant experience in evaluating competency to stand trial, and claims of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI.) In private practice and corrections, he is experienced in treating addiction to alcohol, prescription and over the counter drugs, and opioids. He has also treated patients with Intellectual Development Disorders (IDD), Autism and psychotic conditions in correctional settings and at the State Supporting Living Center in Texas.
Dr. Adhia is experienced in the standard of care in psychiatric treatment, private care, and correctional facilities and correctional psychiatric hospitals.
In his free time, Dr. Adhia volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights, conducting forensic assessment of victims of Human Trafficking, sexual assault, and kidnapping or false imprisonment. Not surprisingly, he has found PTSD, Depression and/or Anxiety Disorders are often present.
Dr. Adhia's professional commitments include acting as a contributing editor to StatPearls, a Brain Injury Medicine publisher of peer-reviewed e-books; he is committed to medical education (formerly Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UTMB). He serves on the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law (AAPL) Committees on Forensic Neuropsychiatry and Human Rights & National Security.
Dr. Adhia is a certified Medical Review Officer with expertise in Drug and Alcohol testing and toxicology. He has an FDA Buprenorphine Waiver to treat Opioid Use Disorders.
- Alcohol Abuse
- Brain Injury
- Child Psychology
- Class Actions
- Competency
- Correctional Healthcare
- Disability
- Elder Abuse
- Emotional Trauma
- Fitness for Duty Evaluation
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Forensic Psychology
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Industrial Psychology
- Jail Suicide
- Labor Law
- Malingering
- Mass Torts
- Neuropsychiatry
- Occupational Medicine
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Probate
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sanity/Competency to Stand Trial
- Sexual Addiction
- Sexual Harassment/Discrimination
- Spousal Abuse
- Stress
- Suicide
- Testamentary Capacity
- Vocational Evaluation & Rehabilitation
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: Medical License, Texas State Board of Medical Examiners License Q0720
Board Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board Certified in Brain Injury Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Medical Review Officer (MRO), Medical Review Officers Certification Council, (2020 - Present)
Florida Medical Doctor Expert Witness License #7683 (2020 - Present)
(Required of a Medical Expert Witness; not a License to practice Medicine in Florida)
Buprenorphine Waiver to treat Opioid Use Disorders (2018 - Present) - Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: American Psychiatric Association
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Committee Memberships in Forensic Neuropsychiatry Committee, and Human Rights and National Security Committe
Appointment to Governor’s Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. Appointed and confirmed by the Texas State Senate (2019) Additional appointment to the Geriatric Sub-Committee.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Physicians for Human Rights - Asylum Network
Brain Injury Association of America
DAYA Houston (IMEs for Asian victims of domestic abuse)
Program for Immigrant & Refugee Child Health, Baylor College of Medicine
Fort Bend County District Attorney Community Engagement Working Group
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: Dr. Adhia serves on the faculty of University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Psychiatry, and has served on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Adhia has been appointed to lecture at the UT Health Psychiatry Department about Forensic Psychiatry and mentor residents in 2019.
Presentations
2020 Forensic Psychiatry: An Introduction Resident Lecture, University of Texas Health Science Center, July 2020, Houston, Texas
Decision Making - Non-emergency Compelled Medications, Poster, 9/19/17, 6th International Conference on Forensic Research & Technology, Houston, TX
Treatment-Resistant Depression Grand Rounds, University of Texas Health Science Center, 2012, Houston Texas
Psychiatry 101 Lecture, Willamette University College of Law, 3/2014, Salem Oregon
Introduction to Forensic Psychiatry Lecture, Willamette University College of Law, 3/2014, Salem Oregon
Forensic Psychiatry: An Introduction Resident Lecture, University of Texas Health Science Center, May 2015, Houston Texas
Civil Forensic Psychiatry Resident Lecture, University of Texas Health Science Center, May 2015, Houston Texas - Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: well over 50
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Psychiatric Malpractice, standard of care, medical malpractice
Mass Tort, Toxic Tort, Psychiatric Damages (oil spill, chemical explosion)
Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault (date rape drugs)
Homicide: forensic assessment and opinion, retained to testify, assessment of malingering
Stress of Pre-Imminent Death
Competency to Stand Trial
Competency to Testify in Immigration Court
Criminal Responsibility (NGRI)
Capital Mitigation
Personal Injury
Defense Base Act
Workman's Compensation
Fitness for Duty
Testamentary Capacity
Undue Influence
Immigration Cases (Human Trafficking, Asylum, VAWA)
Sentence Mitigation
Military Court Martial (DFSA/ sexual harassment)
PTSD
TBI, Concussion, Brain Injury
Sexual Assault
Post-Conviction / Habeas Corpus
Disability
Occupational IME
Impaired Physician, Medical Board Examiner
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: 2022
Call for more information regarding testimony.
Correctional and Immigration Court testimony, Fort Bend County Court in Texas. Have testified in Texas, Oregon, and Georgia jurisdictions. - Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: 10+
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: 10+
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: Since 2014
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Expert Witness
Independent Medical Examinations (IME)
FPS Forensic Psychiatric Services
Records Review
Reports
Testimony
Medico-legal Consulting (second opinion, trial preparation/ cross-examining expert witness, case merit, case review)
Speaker including CLE and Bar presentations - Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: Rate provided upon request.
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: Rate provided upon request.
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: Rate provided upon request.
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: Please call for fee schedule.
- Date Rape Drugs: A Medicine Cabinet of Assault
- Know When Brain Injury Medicine Board-Certification is important in an Expert Witness
- Sanjay Adhia, MD - Attorney References
- Understanding Dementia and Medical-Legal Implications
- fMRI in the Courtroom: A (Very Brief) Overview (multiple authors)
- CV of Kerry Mendes, M.D.,. Adhia & Associates, Adult, Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist.
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shiva.gill@gmail.com
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(713) 570-6555
myattorneyatlaw@gmail.com
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