Dr. Joseph Penn has been part of the leadership team at Correctional Healthcare Management since 2015, bringing over 20 years of correctional healthcare experience. He heads the mental health services working group and is a nationally sought-after expert in correctional healthcare consulting. Joseph has provided extensive work in local, state, and federal courts, with a particular focus on the states of California, Illinois, Vermont, Texas, and Arizona.
Joseph is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch - Correctional Managed Care (UTMB CMC). Bilingual and bicultural, he is triple board certified in general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatry. Joseph serves as the board liaison from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law to the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and was a past chairman for the Council of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families. Additionally, he is the president of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians.
Joseph has served as a consultant on both correctional and non-correctional mental health care delivery and standards of care. He has published and presented extensively on correctional healthcare and various law and psychiatry issues, including seclusion and restraint, restrictive housing, psychotropic medications, telemedicine and telepsychiatry, transgender and gender dysphoria, access to mental health care in correctional settings, suicide prevention, violence risk assessment, and the prediction of future violence. In 2005, he was named to Best Doctors in America.
Joseph received his MD from UTMB. He completed a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Brown University. Joseph also completed an additional fellowship in forensic psychiatry at Yale University.