Dr. Billina Shaw, a triple board-certified psychiatrist, is an associate consultant at Lorio Forensics. She graduated from Yale University with distinction in the major of psychology and received her medical training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Shaw solidified her focus on public sector services through receiving a Master’s of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and was honored to be a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow in Addiction & Overdose. She did her adult, as well as child and adolescent psychiatry residences at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt residency programs, solidifying her roots in community psychiatry. She is the Founder and CEO of ViCat Consulting, where she focuses on child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, as well as addiction medicine. 

Dr. Shaw previously served as Medical Director of Prince George’s County Health Department. Her federal service includes her role as a Senior Medical Advisor at the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), where she was a lead author and medical consultant to several sentinel documents, including the 2023 updates to the Certified Community Behavioral Health Criteria. Dr. Shaw previously served as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine. She previously led a Federal Advisory Committee, the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee, spearheading national leadership for behavioral health strategy for bereavement and grief.