Dr. Katherine Warburton is the Statewide Medical Director for the largest forensic inpatient system in the country. She is an Associate Professor on the clinical faculty within the UC Davis Division of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Warburton is board certified in both adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. She has published multiple peer reviewed papers on a variety of forensic topics including the competency crisis, public forensic mental health systems and inpatient aggression.. She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally on these and other forensic subjects. Dr. Warburton has published two textbooks: Violence in Psychiatry and Decriminalizing Mental Illness. Dr. Warburton works at the national level on the board of directors for NRI and as a non-federal member of the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee. She is a founding member, and President, of the International College of Neuroethics and Neuroscience (ICONN).