Yale Forensic Psychiatry Fellows 2025-2026

Clare Cameron, MD, PhD, is a fellow in Law & Psychiatry Division at the Yale School of Medicine. She completed residency training in psychiatry, also in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. Prior to residency, she completed medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to medical training, she has previous training in medical and socio-cultural anthropology through doctoral studies at the University of California-San Francisco and Berkeley.

Terence L. Howard, MD, MS (he/him), is a current forensic psychiatry fellow within the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Yale School of Medicine. Primarily raised in Harlem, New York,, he studied psychology at the Commonwealth Honors College of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst before completing medical school at Stony Brook University. He underwent adult psychiatry training at the University of California, San Francisco, where he was awarded areas of distinction in LGBT mental health and public psychiatry. His current interests include violence risk assessments, evaluations for those pursuing asylum, and navigating the ethics of providing clinical care in carceral settings.

Crystal Obiozor, MD, is a current forensic psychiatry fellow within the Law & Psychiatry Division at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Obiozor graduated from Prairie View A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and minor in chemistry. She went on to earn her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch. She completed general psychiatry training at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. Additionally, she completed fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and in addiction psychiatry at Yale. Prior to returning to fellowship training for forensics, Dr. Obiozor worked as an attending psychiatrist on the adolescent inpatient unit at Yale Psychiatric Hospital. Her clinical interests include co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders in adolescents and transitional age youths. She plans to remain connected to academic medicine and pursue projects related to curriculum building, academic writing, primary prevention measures, community service, and global mental health.

Erin J. Reed, MD, PhD, is a fellow in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Reed earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at Davidson College, completed a two-year research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, and then pursued combined medical training and doctoral studies through the MD-PhD Program at the Yale School of Medicine and the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. During medical school, she co-founded the Yale chapter of Physicians for Human Rights and the Asylum Medicine Interest Group. For her PhD, Dr. Reed specialized in neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational research of patients with schizophrenia and sub-clinical populations, earning recognition as an Austen Riggs Scholar in Computational Psychiatry and a Pfeiffer Fellowship. Dr. Reed completed her psychiatry residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a member of the residency research track and chief resident for the program’s clinical rotations at McLean Hospital. Dr. Reed’s research interests and publications span a variety of topics, including seizure-induced impairment in conscious awareness, computational linguistic analysis of lone violent actor manifestos, decision making and learning in individuals with trait-level paranoia, the role of expectation and Pavlovian conditioning in hallucinations, and most recently, the clinical and financial impact of delays in legal proceedings for patients awaiting hearings for court-ordered treatment.

Ronald (RJ) Weir, MD, MAPP, is a Forensic Psychiatry Fellow in the Law & Psychiatry Division at Yale. He previously completed medical school at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, during which time he also completed an MA in Public Policy at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, with a Certificate in Health Policy. He then completed Adult Psychiatry Residency at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital and became a board-certified psychiatrist in 2024. Dr. Weir’s clinical interests include psychotherapy and working with people experiencing major life transitions (such as young adults and peripartum patients) and/or living with severe mental illness. Informed by his clinical work, he also engages in health systems work, striving to bridge the gaps between policymakers, healthcare administrators, providers, and patients, advocating for policy changes and improving institutional practices which develop from policy-based incentives. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing board games, reading, and listening to music and podcasts.