Person

Pierre, Joseph

is a psychiatrist and a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. In addition to his clinical work treating individuals hospitalized with severe mental illness, his academic work focuses on the grey area between psychopathology and normality with an emphasis on delusion-like beliefs including conspiracy theories. He also serves as an expert witness consultant in forensic cases involving the intersection of psychosis, religion, and ideological belief.