About me
George Woods, M.D., is a licensed physician specializing in neuropsychiatry. His focus is on neurodevelopmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury, neurocognitive impairments, mood disorders, and trauma. His clinical subspecialties are neuropsychiatry and consultation liaison psychiatry. In his clinical practice, he assesses and treats individuals with a variety of medical problems that may present with psychiatric manifestations. In his forensic practice, he performs forensic consultations for criminal and civil matters.
Dr. Woods has taught at the University of California – Davis(1996-2000) and Morehouse School of Medicine (2002-2016). For the past ten (10) years, he has been a lecturer at the University of California – Berkeley Law School on the subject of “Law and Mental Health” with Jennifer Johnson, J.D. From 2012-2018 Dr. Woods and Ms. Johnson taught a continuing education webinar, “Where Mental Health Meets the Law,” produced by Thomson Reuters-West Legal Education. He is a faculty member of the Practising Law Institute (PLI), based in New York and San Francisco.
Dr. Woods is the Chief Scientific Officer for Crestwood Behavioral Health, the largest psychosocial rehabilitation provider of behavioral health congregate care in California. Crestwood focuses on trauma-informed recovery. He is also on the Board of Directors for Roots Community Health Center; the Governing Board of the Stanford University Health Alliance (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization, LLC; a Community Board Member for Stanford Medical Partners; the Advisory Board of Cal-Pep; and Board Chair for Felton Institute. He is the current president (second term) of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH). Dr. Woods was selected as the 2018 Distinguished Alumnus for the University of Utah Medical.
Center, the first psychiatrist ever selected. In 2019, he received the Historical Prixe from the University of
Milan in Italy.
George works with legal teams dealing with complex criminal and civil litigation, as well as start-ups and early ventures. He has also worked with multiple companies, including Vulcan Industries, Microsoft, DeepSpan, New Level Work, and Walmart, on psychometrically and culturally competent employment testing procedures, as well as neurophilosophically effective algorithms.
He has presented and published articles on the topics of forensic assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders; race and cognition; cognitive impairment; intellectual disability; neuropsychiatric accommodation of the American Disability Act; aging in the workplace; financial deception in elderly populations; comorbidity; trauma, advances in neuroimaging and neuroscience; and the cultural implications of artificial intelligence.
In addition to spending time with his granddaughters, George’s passion is bringing his deep understanding of body/brain functioning and its impact.
