Jeffrey S Janofsky, MD

Director, Psychiatry and Law Program

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

informed consent, inpatient safety improvement, insanity defense, suicide risk assessment

• Janofsky JS and Rovner BW: Prevalence of advance directives and guardianship in nursing home patients. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 6:214-216, 1993

• Janofsky JS and Tamburello AC: Diversion to the mental health system: emergency psychiatric evaluations. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 34:283-91, 2006

• Janofsky JS, Dunn MH, Roskes EJ, Briskin J and Rudolph ML: Insanity defense pleas in Baltimore City: An analysis of outcome. American Journal of Psychiatry 155:1464-1468, 1996

• Janofsky, JS: Lies and coercion: why psychiatrists should not participate in police and intelligence interrogations. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2006;34:472-8, 2006

• Barton CD, Mallik HS, Orr WB and Janofsky JS: Clinicians' judgment of competency of nursing home patients to give informed consent. Psychiatric Services 47:956-996, 1996

• Giorgi-Guarnieri D, Janofsky J, Keram E, et al.: Practice guideline: Forensic psychiatric evaluation of defendants raising the insanity defense. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 30: S1-S40, 2002

• Janofsky JS: Reply to Schafer: Exploitation of criminal suspects by mental health professionals is unethical. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 29:449-451, 2001

• Paul R. McHugh Teaching Award, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2003

• "Civil commitment and medication over objection, Saint Elizabeths Hospital Annual Forensic Conference: Involuntary Civil Commitment, Updates and Controversies, Washington DC
• Civil commitment and medication over objection, The Maryland experience, Grand Rounds, Saint Elizabeths Hospital Annual Forensic Conference: Involuntary Civil Commitment, Updates and Controversies, Washington, DC
• Management of violence on an inpatient psychiatric unit, Grand Rounds, Saint Joseph s Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore
• Management of violence on an inpatient psychiatric unit, Grand Rounds, Saint Joseph's Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore, Maryland
• Psychiatric inpatients and violence towards staff, Grand Rounds, Buffalo Psychiatric Center, SUNY at Buffalo Grand Rounds, Buffalo, New York
• Psychiatric inpatients and violence towards staff'', SUNY at Buffalo Grand Rounds, Buffalo Psychiatric Center, Buffalo
• Reducing inpatient suicide risk: Improving observation practices, Grand Rounds, Spring Grove Hospital Center, Baltimore
• Reducing inpatient suicide risk: Improving observation practices, Grand Rounds, Spring Grove Hospital Center, Baltimore, Maryland
• Reducing Suicide Risk, Grand Rounds, St. Josephs Medical Center, Towson
• Reducing Suicide Risk, Grand Rounds, Grand Rounds, St. Josephs Medical Center, Towson, Maryland
• Suicide risk assessment and prevention, Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore, Maryland
• Suicide risk assessment and prevention", Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland