Reema Dedania,
MD

Doctor's Bio

Dr. Reema Dedania, MD, is both a general adult and forensic psychiatrist at Emory. She finished her residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, where she served as a chief resident during her final year. Following residency, she worked at Rogers Behavioral Health as a staff psychiatrist in the Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder treatment programs. Dr. Dedania then completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship through Case Western Reserve/University Hospitals in Cleveland, OH, prior to joining faculty at Emory.

Dr. Dedania is the Associate Program Director for the forensic psychiatry fellowship at Emory, where she supervises forensic fellows, psychiatry residents, and medical students. She treats patients and is a site supervisor at both the Emory/Fulton County Jail Competency Restoration Unit and the Atlanta City Detention Center. She performs criminal and civil evaluations, including competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, Independent Medical Evaluations, and fitness for duty. She teaches and has published on a variety of topics including jail-based restoration, psychopharmacology, correctional medicine, risk assessments, issues pertaining to national security, health inequities, and malpractice. She has an interest in immigration law and is a collaborator with the Georgia Human Rights Clinic at Emory, a medical-legal partnership in Atlanta that performs forensic medical and psychiatric evaluations to individuals seeking asylum.