Biography

Sylvan Schaffer is a licensed psychologist and attorney who serves as the clinical director of the Forensic Psychiatry Program for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital. He is also assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Schaffer is affiliated with the Lenox Hill Hospital Department of Psychiatry and the New York University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry as a clinical associate professor. In addition, he is legal counsel to the New York State Psychological Association as well as other mental health associations, universities and clinics. He is of counsel to the law firm of Feaster, Bruckman, Wohl, Most & Rothman. He practices in the areas of, and has written about, jury selection, risk management, family law, mental health law, professional discipline, mediation, forensic evaluations and expert testimony. Dr. Schaffer has a separate practice in psychotherapy.