Hy Bloom, LL.B., M.D., F.R.C.P(C) is a psychiatrist and lawyer who assesses individuals whose psychological and emotional state, motivation, or behaviour are of potential relevance in a criminal, civil, professional regulatory, or employment matter. He is Director/C.E.O. of workplace.calm inc., consultants in Workplace Conflict and Violence Prevention and Management, and an Associate of the PSILEX Group, Consultants in Behavioural Sciences and the Law. Dr. Bloom is an Alternate Chairperson, legal member and psychiatric member of both the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards. He is also a member of the Law and Mental Health Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980.
Dr. Bloom is also a part-time staff member in the Law and Mental Health Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McMaster University, and adjunct faculty at University of Toronto’s Law School, where he co-teaches a course called the Mentally Disordered Accused.
He has published extensively on a number of topics in psychiatry and the law. His most recent books include Mental Disorder and the Law: A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals (Toronto: Irwin Law 2006), Mental Health Courts: Decriminalizing the Mentally Ill (Toronto: Irwin Law 2007), and Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management (Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007). He and Justice Richard Schneider are in the process of editing a book entitled A Comprehensive and Practical Approach to Mental Disorder and the Law, forthcoming in spring/summer 2012.
