Dr. Ahmad U Janjua, M.D., FAPA
Atlanta, GA 30044
Forensic psychiatry is a discipline that focuses on the intersection of psychiatric issues and the law. Consultation, evaluation, report writing, and testimony are completed by the forensic psychiatric expert for legal purposes in civil or criminal matters.
Dr. Janjua is a forensic psychiatrist. He completed fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. While completing his training at Emory, he gained expertise with pertinent federal and state case law. Additionally, he gained experience in providing legal testimony.
Dr. Janjua conducts forensic psychiatric evaluations, consultations, and expert witness testimony in civil and criminal cases.
Competency to Stand Trial (CST) Evaluations
Criminal Responsibility (CR) Evaluations/ The Insanity Defense
Capital Sentencing and Mitigation
Workplace Violence Assessments
Fitness for Duty Evaluations
Political Asylum Evaluations
Dr. Janjua has a vast array of experience in correctional psychiatry. He has provided psychiatric services at the Atlanta City Detention Center, Fulton County Jail, and Troup County Jail. He is available to consult on medicolegal issues involving correctional psychiatry. In addition, Dr. Janjua has experience with testamentary capacity (competency to make a will), geriatric issues, addiction issues, neuromodulation issues, and various other civil competency evaluations. In addition, he has worked in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings and can consult on medicolegal issues involving such civil cases.
Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs)
Workers’ Compensation
Employment Discrimination
Personal Psychiatric Injury Evaluations
Psychiatric Malpractice and Standard of Care Cases
Dr. Janjua is board-certified in General Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is available to discuss any of the above issues. Attorneys and courts are encouraged to call regarding comprehensive psychiatric reports, expert witness testimony, and case consultation. Dr. Janjua’s curriculum vitae is available upon request.
For publicly funded cases, Dr. Janjua provides services on a modified fee schedule. Please contact the office for further details.
- Community Mental Health
- Competency
- Drug Abuse
- Fitness for Duty Evaluation
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Neuropsychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Psychopharmacology
- Sanity/Competency to Stand Trial
- Vocational Evaluation & Rehabilitation
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: Medical License, Georgia
Medical License, Indiana
Board Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association (GPPA)
International Society of ECT and Neurostimulation (ISEN)
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: Dr. Janjua serves on the faculty of Emory University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
- 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: Please call for details.
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Psychiatric Malpractice, standard of care, medical malpractice
Homicide: forensic assessment and opinion, retained to testify, assessment of malingering
Competency to Stand Trial
Competency to Testify in Immigration Court
Criminal Responsibility (NGRI)
Capital Mitigation
Personal Injury
Workman's Compensation
Fitness for Duty
Testamentary Capacity
Sentence Mitigation
PTSD
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: Please call for details.
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: Please call for details.
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: Since 2021.
- 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: Rate provided upon request.
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: Please call for fee schedule.
Available Upon Request