Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
2516 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Office phone:  (916) 734-0870
E-mail:  jason.roof@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Dr. Roof completed medical school and his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.  He completed additional training in forensic psychiatry at UC Davis.  Dr. Roof has been qualified as an expert witness in federal, state and military courts and has testified to issues including bipolar disorder, substance use and memory.  He is part of the Sacramento County Superior Court Expert Witness panel and has completed numerous appointments for them involving competency to stand trial, sanity evaluations and evaluations of sexual offenders.  He is the site director for medical students and residents for Jail Psychiatric Services at the Sacramento County Jail.  Dr. Roof is currently the first author on a book chapter for American Psychiatric Press Inc., (in press) involving geriatric criminal offenders.

B.S., Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, 1998
M.D., University of Texas, Houston, 2003