Rodrigo Dresdner
Public Forensic Institute, USA
Biography
Dr. Rodrigo (Santiago, Chile, 1956). Psychiatrist and couple therapist. He has been a forensic psychiatrist in the Legal Medical Service (SML) since 1998. There he has focused his work on expertise and investigations in people accused of violent crimes. He has been working since 2008 as medical coordinator of the Adult Psychiatry Unit of the Metropolitan SML.
In the year 2010 he published the work Forensic Psychiatry in Criminal Matters (Editions of the Chilean Society of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, SONEPSYN). The year 2014 published the Manual of forensic psychiatry for lawyers (Editorial Libromar Ltda.). It has forensic investigations published in Chile and abroad, and papers at the biannual congresses of the International Association of Mental Health and Law. He obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences with mention in Forensics with a thesis investigation in incendiary population, developing a model of patterns in this type of criminal behavior. He teaches in different metropolitan universities, in regions and abroad. He has taught training for the Public Ministry, Public Criminal Defense and Judicial Academy. Since 2008 he is the coordinator of the Forensic Psychiatry Working Group of SONEPSYN. He has participated as an expert guest in inter-institutional work tables by the Ministry of Health.