Dr Jeremy Skipworth

Description

Jeremy is a Forensic Psychiatrist currently employed at the Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatry Services, where he was Clinical Director from 2010-2019. He was previously Deputy Director of Mental Health at the Ministry of Health from 2004-2008. 

He is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Auckland, and has been a member of the New Zealand Parole Board since 2008, sitting on about 250 hearings for lifers and preventive detainees each year.  In addition to his medical qualifications, he has a Master’s degree and a PhD in areas of study relating to forensic psychiatry. 

He has also published a number of articles and book chapters in areas of academic interest including fitness to stand trial, insanity, prison psychiatry and forensic psychiatric rehabilitation.

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