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Dr. Rodney Reid, MD is an experienced psychiatrist who serves locations in the Inland Empire, Orange County, Los Angeles County, and Riverside County. With over 20 years of medical practice, he actively performs Agreed Medical Evaluations (AME), Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs) and serves as an expert witness services for all types of medical-legal cases that require psychiatric evaluation and reporting services. As a qualified psychiatrist AME, he works with clients in the legal and insurance sectors to help them get accurate and prompt medical evidence that answers complex questions in civil litigation, workers compensation or personal injury cases.

Professional Qualifications

Dr. Rodney Reid, MD is a board-certified general psychiatrist, child & adolescent psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist. He did his residency in psychiatry at the UCLA medical Center and fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the University of California Davis. He also attended medical school at George Washington University School of Medicine and his fellowship, child & adolescent psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University.

Background and Experience

As a well-established AME psychiatrist with extensive experience diagnosing and treating mental illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia and substance abuse, he has worked with various medical institutions including the Mind Medical Institute in Newport Beach, California, where he has worked from 2012 to present. Over the years, he has gained extensive knowledge as a psychiatry QME, IME and AME provider, as well as an expert witness.

Dr. Reid has an impressive background of private practice and has worked with attorneys and their clients both as a medical consultant and expert witness psychiatrist. He is affiliated with multiple hospitals in California, including Providence Portland Medical Center where he is one of the 61 doctors, Providence St. Vincent Medical Center who specialize in Psychiatry and Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center in Oregon City, OR.

Professional Memberships

Dr. Reid holds professional memberships in some of the top psychiatry organizations in the US. These include:

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – AACAP
• American Psychiatric Association – APA
• American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law – AAPL
• International Society for Sports Psychiatry

Published Psychiatrist

Dr. Reid is a published psychiatrist and peer-reviewed author of journal articles. His publications and presentations include:

• Tetra[2,3-thienylene]: a building block for single-molecule electromechanical actuators. Marsella, M.J., Reid, R.J., Estassi, S., Wang, L.; J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Oct 23.
• Synthesis of acetylenic cyclophanes via intramolecular self-assembly: evidence of perfluorophenyl-phenyl quadrupole interactions in the solution state. Marsella MJ, Wang ZQ, Reid RJ, Yoon K; Org. Lett.. 2001-03-22.

Areas of Expertise

Dr. Reid specializes in offering psychiatric evaluation and other psychiatric services. He consults with professional staff and clients to provide the best-in-class Agreed Medical Evaluations (AMEs), Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs) and Qualified Medical Evaluations (QMEs). If you need a psychiatric evaluation or expert witness testimony to help resolve a complex medical-legal case, Dr. Rodney Reid, MD offers the services you need.

Established Psychiatrist and Expert Witness

As a reputable AME psychiatrist, Dr. Reid offers a wide variety of psychiatry services to aid in the treatment, forensic and decision-making of medical legal cases. Each AME he does is individualized to meet the client’s specific needs and includes a strength-based approach. With his background in psychiatry, Dr. Reid is able to provide exclusive psychological testing, agreed medical evaluations and assessments to help resolve medical disputes quickly.

He has done numerous medical assessments and provided testimony reports in claimant, defendant as well as joint instruction cases. He dedicates his expertise to helping attorneys and their claimants understand the complexities involved in psychiatry cases as well as providing his services as a California expert witness psychiatrist. He’s committed to providing the best California psychiatry QME, AME and IME services in a convenient and flexible way that reduces the administrative processes involved for you and your client.

Get Credible and Defensible Litigation Support

As a California AME psychiatrist, Dr. Rodney Reid, MD offers comprehensive, objective and evidence-based expert opinion on all matters general psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry with the aim of providing credible and defensible testimony that can stand under the most rigorous cross-examination in a court of law. If you’re looking for reliable litigation support, Dr. Reid is ready to assist you. His contribution has helped legal experts settle medical disputes swiftly.

He is available to provide expert witness testimony for cases involving psychiatric evaluations throughout California. His office is located in 26440 La Alameda, Suite 220, Mission Viejo, CA 9269. He can be contacted directly at (949) 354-0630 or faxed at (949) 354-0630.

Professional IME, QME AND AME Services at AES

If you’re looking for professional medical evaluation and reporting services for personal injury, civil litigation, workers compensation or any other medical-legal dispute that involves psychiatric assessments, Arrowhead Evaluation Services provides a panel of experienced and board-certified physicians and medical specialists like Dr. Reid who are ready to assist you and your claimant in the management of a claim.

As an experienced psychiatrist AME, Dr. Reid is a qualified medical examiner at AES and forms a team of skilled psychiatrists who provide unbiased medical opinion and expert testimony for the purpose of resolving complex medical disputes. We know that accurate and expedient claims administration is critical in today’s medical-legal environment. As the most selective and established medical-legal service provider in California since 1987, you can be sure that our doctors offer a level of service second to none.

Whether you’re a legal expert requesting for a psychiatry QME or an insurer seeking reliable medical assessment processing, you can request an IME, QME or AME or get expert testimony from our large panel of certified and qualified California psychiatrists like Dr. Rodney Reid, MD. Find the medical expert you need for your medical dispute case at AES.

To schedule a medical evaluation with Dr. Rodney Reid, MD, or any of our qualified California independent medical evaluation doctors, contact our team today or fill out our online evaluation request form.