Richard G. Rappaport, M.D., is a forensic psychiatrist in Carlsbad's La Costa area who has maintained a nationwide expert-witness and consultation practice since 1969, serving as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Forensic evaluations span both civil and criminal matters, and diagnostic workups for complex cases incorporate neuroimaging coordination through providers such as SimonMed Imaging - Carlsbad when traumatic brain injury or neurological conditions are at issue. A 1963 degree from the Chicago Medical School and psychiatry residency at Michael Reese Hospital preceded a forensic career spanning from 1969 to the present, with qualification to testify in federal court and seven state jurisdictions. Civil-matter expertise covers personal injury, malpractice, testamentary capacity, wrongful termination, product liability, PTSD assessment, and malingering detection, while criminal work spans sanity, competency, and eyewitness-identification evaluations. Pharmacogenomic data reviewed through laboratory coordination with providers such as Genome-Based Diagnostics informs medication-history analysis in cases where psychotropic prescribing patterns are at issue. The highest-profile forensic engagements have included consultation on serial-murder cases, with published research in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law on misdiagnosis and rights-deprivation in psychiatric-legal proceedings.