John S Rozel, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Law
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email rozeljs@upmc.edu
Assistant
Vickey Davies
Education & Training
MD
Brown University, School of Medicine
MSL
Law, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Forensic Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Current Appointments
Medical Director, resolve Crisis Services
Core Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh
Co-Director, UPMC Systemwide Threat Assessment and Response Team
Professional Affiliations
Past President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Member, Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
Affiliate Member, American Bar Association, Health Law Section
Member, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police Physicians Section
Lifetime Member, Crisis Intervention Teams International
Selected Honors & Awards
Ralph C. Wilde Leadership Award, Allegheny County Medical Society
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Behavioral Healthcare Professional of the Year, Crisis Intervention Teams International
Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, National Alliance on Mental Illness
Honorary Member, American College of Emergency Physicians
Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Research Interests
Selected Research Publications & Products- Hoops K, Fahimi J, Khoeur L, Studenmund C, Barber C, Barnhorst A, Betz ME, Crifasi CK, Davis JA, Dewispelaere W, Fisher L, Howard PK, Ketterer A, Marcolini E, Nestadt PS, Rozel J, Simonetti JA, Spitzer S, Victoroff M, Williams BH, Howley L, Ranney ML. Consensus-Driven Priorities for Firearm Injury Education among Medical Professionals. Academic Medicine: July 6, 2021 - Publish Ahead of Print.
- Rozel JS. 2020. Violence: Managing Major Threats. In Emergency Psychiatry: Principles & Practice, edited by Rachel Lipson Glick, Scott L Zeller, and Jon S. Berlin, 2d ed., 34557. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.
- Rozel JS. 2019. Complexity, Computational modeling, and forecasting the future of threat management. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management 6 (34): 19397. http://dx.doi.org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/tam0000131.
- Rozel, John S., Abhishek Jain, Edward P. Mulvey, and Loren H. Roth. 2017. Psychiatric Assessment of Violence. In The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression, edited by Peter Sturmey. Vol. 2. John Wiley & Sons.
- Rozel, John S., and Edward P. Mulvey. 2017. The Link between Mental Illness and Gun Violence: Implications for Social Policy. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 13 (1): 445-69. doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-093459.
Clinical Interests
Emergency and crisis psychiatry; Violence prevention; Treatment of trauma
Selected Clinical Publications & Products- Rozel JS & Soliman L. 2024. Lessons of the Boom: A Playbook for Crisis Centers to Prevent, Survive, and Respond to Active Assailants, Targeted Violence, and Mass Violence. Psychiatric Clinics 47 (3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2024.04.005.
- Soliman S, Jain A, Rozel J & Rachal J. 2023. Safe Spaces: Mitigating Potential Aggression in Acute Care Psychiatry. FOCUS 21 (1): 4651. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20220069.
- Rozel JS & Soliman L. 2023. Tool, Constraint, Liability, Context: Law and Emergency Psychiatry. In Emergency Psychiatry, edited by Tony Thrasher, 40119. Primer On. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
- Barnhorst A, Rozel JS. Evaluating threats of mass shootings in the psychiatric setting. International Review of Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 16; Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2021.1947784
- Stowell, Keith R., Nolan P. Hughes, and John S. Rozel. 2016. Violence in the Emergency Department. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 39 (4): 557-66. doi:10.1016/j.psc.2016.07.003.
Education Interests
Violence prevention; Risk management; Resilience and wellness for professionals
Selected Education Publications & Products- Walsh BM, Agboola IK, Coupet Jr. E, Rozel JS & Wong AH. 2023. Revisiting Excited Delirium: Does the Diagnosis Reflect and Promote Racial Bias? Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health 24 (2). https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2022.10.56478.
- Rozel JS. 2020. Identifying and Understanding Legal Aspects of Emergency Psychiatry Unique to Different Jurisdictions. In Models of Emergency Psychiatric Services That Work, edited by Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald and Junji Takeshita, 16575. Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50808-1_16.
- Rozel J. 2020. Surge in Firearm Sales Tied to COVID-19 Fears, Uncertainty Presents Risks. The Hospitalist. April 2, 2020. https://www.the-hospitalist.org/psychiatry/article/220142/anxiety-disorders/surge-firearm-sales-tied-covid-19-fears-uncertainty.
- Clinical Homicide and Aggression Management Practices for Inpatient, Outpatient and Non-traditional Settings (CHAMPIONS). Ongoing day-long training in advanced violence evaluation and management.
- Rozel, John. 2016. Malpractice Risk Assessment for Behavioral Emergencies. Audio Digest Psychiatry 45 (21).
