Michael John Herkov

Dr. Michael Herkov, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist from Florida. He is an associate professor in the university of Florida college of medicine department of psychiatry. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from auburn university graduating magna cum laude and completed an internship at eastern Virginia medical center. His postdoctoral education included the forensic psychiatry training program at the university of Florida and neuropsychological assessment training at the veteran's administration hospital in Gainesville, Florida with both neurology, neuropsychology, and psychiatry mentors. He has been practicing forensic psychology since 1994. He has a national reputation as a forensic expert, testifying in state and federal criminal and civil courts in Florida, the Southeast and Puerto Rico. He specializes in clinical psychological and neuropsychological assessment, treatment and forensic evaluation of a variety of adult and adolescent populations, and testifies in both civil and criminal cases. He testifies in all matters except child custody. The areas of expert testimony include traumatic brain injury, psychological injury, malpractice, testamentary capacity, PTSD, employment issues such as sexual harassment, death and grief, sexual offenders, etc. This includes evaluations for both the plaintiff and the defense. In criminal court, he testifies on issues of competency to proceed, sanity at the time of the alleged offense, diminished capacity and mitigation issues.