Lorio Forensics is proud to welcome Dr. Steven Starks, MD, MBA, to our roster of distinguished mental health professionals. Dr. Starks is a Yale-trained, Licensed Psychiatric Physician and a Double Board Certified Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist, whose background combines subspecialized clinical expertise, policy experience at the highest levels of government, and a deep commitment to advancing the understanding of mental illness, especially in older adult populations.
Dr. Starks’ career spans both medicine and policy. He earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, completed a psychiatry residency at Baylor College of Medicine, and pursued a clinical fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Yale University. Beyond the clinic, Dr. Starks served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in the Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow during the 116th Congress — giving him a rare understanding of how systems, law, and policy intersect with mental health care.
This blend of clinical and policy insight makes Dr. Starks an invaluable expert in cases where psychiatric complexity, cognitive decline, dementia, or testamentary capacity are at issue. His extensive medical scholarship — covering addiction, the opioid crisis, dementia, and the use of antipsychotic medications — underscore his authority on conditions frequently central to competency, capacity, and culpability evaluations.
Dr. Starks’ experience includes service with the Veterans Administration, academic appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, and leadership roles on advisory boards such as the Alzheimer’s Association, NAMI Greater Houston, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Geriatric Measurement Advisory Panel.
Dr. Starks offers attorneys expert evaluations and testimony rooted in scientific rigor, compassion, and a nuanced understanding of how mental health influences behavior, judgment, and accountability. His presence strengthens our mission to deliver credible, defensible, and clinically sound forensic assessments to both defense and prosecution.
We are honored to have Dr. Starks join our team and confident that his expertise will be a tremendous asset to our attorney partners navigating complex mental health cases.
