Welcome to Why Not Me, the World Podcast,

hosted by Tony Mayator.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry.

Real life people who will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance, and a better understanding

for autism around the world.

Hi, I'm Tony Mantor. Welcome to Why Not Me the World, Humanity Over Handcuffs, the Silent Crisis Special Event. Today, we're joined by Dr. Gillum. This was, a board-certified adult and forensic psychiatrist. She is the director of the Psychiatry Law and Society program at Brigham and Women's Hospital

and co-director of the Harvard Mass General Brigham Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship.

She chairs and contributes to numerous psychiatric forensic and medical committees at both state and national levels.

Her research focuses on improving mental health laws to better

support patients and families while advancing criminal justice reform. With her expertise in mental

illness, risk assessment, and more, we're thrilled to have her share her insights with us today.

Thanks for coming on. Thank you. I think you're doing such a huge

service. Thanks for your kind words. I really appreciate you taking the time to be with us today.

It's truly inspiring to see your impact as a mental health advocate and your leadership

across various boards. Can you share with us your journey and how you reach this point in your career?

A lot of what I've done is research. So I worked a forensic hospital for many years,

and I realized that it was very hard to get the courts to allow us to provide medications for

psychotic illness in time if somebody didn't have the insight

into knowing that they needed it. So what we ended up doing, and I was the principal investigator

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