Chester B. Scrignar, M.D.         C. B. Scrignar, M. D. is a psychiatrist who has practiced in a variety of settings including:  psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, substance abuse programs, law enforcement agencies, maximum security hospitals, prisons, and juvenile, civil, and criminal courts.  As a professor, Dr. Scrignar lectures and writes widely on PTSD, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and other anxiety disorders, cognitive-behavior therapy, and forensic psychiatry.  For over a decade, with a law professor, he co-directed the Tulane University School of Law-School of Medicine training program in law and psychiatry, and was appointed an adjunct professor of law and psychiatry at Tulane Law School.  In 1999, Tulane University School of Medicine established the Chester B. Scrignar Professorship of Forensic Psychiatry and annually sponsors the Chester B. Scrignar Lectureship devoted to some aspect of forensic psychiatry.  Currently, he is in the private practice of psychiatry, and as a clinical professor of psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at Tulane University School of Social Work, Dr. Scrignar teaches psychiatric residents as well as medical and graduate students.

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