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Hal S. Wortzel, MD

 

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Hal S. Wortzel, M.D.

VA VISN 19 (Rocky Mountain) MIRECC
University of Colorado

Biography

Hal Wortzel, MD is a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), where he serves as Director of Neuropsychiatric Consultation Services and Co-director for VA's National Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Colorado and serves as the Michael K. Cooper Professor of Neurocognitive Disease, and as faculty for the Program in Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr. Wortzel maintains a private practice in Forensic Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Neurology and has consulted on numerous criminal and civil cases. Areas of research and scholarship interest include suicide risk management, and aggression and suicide in the context of PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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