Jhilam Biswas

Dr. Jhilam Biswas is a board-certified Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist and is the Director of the Psychiatry, Law, and Society Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Co-Director of the Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship. She is also an attending on the Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and serves as a staff psychiatrist to the Simmons University Health Center.

Dr. Biswas specializes in mental health consultation to the legal system and focuses on the nuances of both criminal and civil law. Since starting her practice, she chairs and serves on multiple psychiatric, forensic and medical committees statewide and nationally. Currently, Dr. Biswas’s research aims at improving mental health laws to better serve patients and families and in criminal justice reform.

Dr. Biswas has testified many times in the courtroom maintains a special role in the state of Massachusetts as a Designated Forensic Psychiatrist (DFP), an accreditation required to conduct court-ordered evaluations. Her expertise is in serious mental illness, risk assessment, violence prevention, cultural competence and consulting to social institutions and organizations.

Leadership Title

• Director, Psychiatry, Law and Society Program (PLSP)
• Co-Director, Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship