Director, Forensic Psychiatry Services and Training
Recognition & Awards
Seymour Pollack Award for Distinguished Contributions in Forensic Psychiatry, Am Academy Psychiatry and Law
(2022)
Outstanding Achievement Award for Contributions in Forensic Psychiatry and Ethics, Colorado Psychiatric Society
(2017)
Distinguished Life Fellow Am Psychiatric Association, APA
(2016)
Best Teacher in a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Award, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
(2013)
Research Interests
Ethical issues in forensic practice.
Teaching
Professor
(2009)
School of Medicine,
Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Publications
Ahmad A, Martinez R: Forensic Psychiatry: An Introduction. In Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Third Edition. Editor: Max M. Houck. Oxford:Elsevier Publishers. Vol. 2, pp. 678-781, 2023.
Martinez R, Hatters Friedman S. (in press) Boundaries and Malpractice. In Malpractice and Liability in Psychiatry. Editors: Peter Ash and Rick Frierson. Springer Publishing.
Dike CC, Briz L, Fadus M, Martinez R, May C, Milone R, Nesbit-Bartsch, Powell T, Witmer A, and Brendel, RW: Religion, Spirituality, and Ethics in Psychiatric Practice. J. Nervous and Mental Disease. March 28, 2022. Doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001505. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35344979.
Candilis PJ, Martinez R. The Evolution of Forensic Psychiatric Ethics. In The Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Editors Rebecca Weintraub Brendel and Michelle Hume. Elsevier Publishers: Science Direct. 44(4):571-578, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2021.08.001
Martinez R, Candilis P: Narrative Ethics. In Psychiatric Ethics. Editors: Sidney Bloch and Stephen Green. Oxford University Press, 5th edition, 2021.
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198839262.003.0004
Candilis PJ, Martinez R: Forensic Psychiatry. In Psychiatric Ethics. Editors: Sidney Bloch and Stephen Green. Oxford University Press, 5th edition, 2021.
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198839262.001.0001
Comeau S, Martinez R: Weighing Expert Witness Testimony in Civil Commitment Release Hearings for Sexually Dangerous Individuals. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 641-642, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
James C, Lish D, Martinez R: Private Entities as State Actors in Civil Commitment Procedure. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 642-645, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Heneghan M, Lish D, Martinez R: Cross Examination and Witness Bias in Attempted First Degree Murder. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 645-647, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Tran A, Martinez R: Exclusion of Expert Exposition Testimony for a Lack of Fit with the Facts in a Hit and Run Homicide Case. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 647-649, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Comeau S, Martinez R: Weighing Expert Witness Testimony in Civil Commitment Release Hearings for Sexually Dangerous Individuals. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 641-642, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Heneghan M, Lish D, Martinez R: Cross Examination and Witness Bias in Attempted First Degree Murder. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 645-647, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
James C, Lish D, Martinez R: Private Entities as State Actors in Civil Commitment Procedure. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 642-645, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Tran A, Martinez R: Exclusion of Expert Exposition Testimony for a Lack of Fit with the Facts in a Hit and Run Homicide Case. J. Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 49 (4) 647-649, 2021. AT DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.210129L1-21.
Martinez R, Candilis P: Ethics in the Time of Injustice. J Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 48 (2) 2020. At DOI:10.29158/JAAPL.200067-20
Hatters Friedman S, Martinez R: Boundaries, Professionalism, and Malpractice in Psychiatry. Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry. Vol. 17, No. 4, Nov 7, 2019. At https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20190019
Cerny-Suelzer CA, Ferranti J, Wasser T, Janofsky JS, Michaelsen K, Alonso-Katzowitz JS, Cardasis W, Noffsinger S, Martinez R, Spanggaard M: Practice Resource for Forensic Training in General Psychiatry Residency Programs. J Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. Vol. 47 (2):266, 2019.
Chinweze E, Bundrick J, Martinez R: Impact of Diagnosis of Malingering on a Defendant’s Sentence. J Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. 47 (4) 530-531, 2019. At DOI: https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.3901L2-19
Vigil C, Bundrick J, Martinez R: Moral Character Inquiry for Washington State Bar Association. J Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. Vol. 47 (4) 525-527, 2019. At https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.003901-19
James C, Bundrick J, Martinez R: Use of Excessive Force and Qualified Immunity. J Am Acad Psychiatry and Law. Vol. 47 (4) 527-530, 2019. At https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.3901L1-19
Martinez R: End of Life Decision Making: Cruzan v Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990). In From Courtroom to Clinic: Legal Cases that Changed Mental Health Practice. Editor: Peter Ash, MD. Cambridge University Press, NY, NY, 2019.
Martinez R: Familicide: Family Annihilation. In Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate. Editor: Hatters-Friedman S. APA Publishing, Washington DC, 2019. Awarded Manfred Guttmacher Award from APA in 2020.