April 10, 2009

The medical implications of the trial of Andrea Yates, the Texas woman who drowned her five children in 2001, will be discussed at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' annual Roy T. Brophy Community Lecture, set for Thursday, April 30, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Education Building, Room 1222.

The Roy T. Brophy Visiting Professor is Phillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Forensic Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. The title of his talk is "The Andrea Yates Trial: Implications for Medicine."

Members of the community are invited. Parking will be available in Lots 12 and 17.

Yates is known for killing her five young children by drowning them in the bathtub in her house. She had been suffering for years with severe postpartum depression and psychosis.

Resnick has served as a consultant in many high-profile cases, including those of Yates, Jeffrey Dahmer, Susan Smith, Timothy McVeigh, Scott Peterson, William Kennedy Smith and Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

Resnick has served as President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He has published more than 140 articles and book chapters.

The Roy T. Brophy Professorship was established to honor Brophy, a former UC regent and chair of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Board of Directors.