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    John S. Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA

    Medical Director
    UPMC Crisis Services
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    John "Jack" Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA is a Professor of Psychiatry and Law at the University of Pittsburgh.

    Dr. Rozel has been working in emergency mental health since 1990 and has been the medical director of resolve Crisis Services of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital since 2010 and is a founder and co-director of the UPMC Systemwide Threat Assessment and Response Team. He is a Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, the leading national organization dedicated to the improvement of compassionate, evidence-based care for people with psychiatric emergencies.

    Dr. Rozel trains and consults with teams across UPMC and the country on projects related to violence and threat management, staff injury prevention, firearm injury prevention, and crisis and emergency psychiatry. He has served as an incident commander for mass shootings and been involved in the behavioral health response to several mass casualty events. He is a member of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government and has contributed to major policy efforts including the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s reports on Mass Violence, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s violence management guidelines, and the AMA et al’s Amici brief for the NYSRPA v Bruen case before the Supreme Court.

    Dr. Rozel serves the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a member of the Citizen Law Enforcement Advisory and Review Commission, the Mental Health and Justice Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the Threat Assessment Steering Committee for the Office of Homeland Security.

    Dr. Rozel is board certified in general, child, and forensic psychiatry. He earned a bachelor’s in Biomedical Ethics and an MD at Brown University and a Master of Studies in Law from the University of Pittsburgh where he also completed his general psychiatry residency and child and forensic psychiatry fellowships at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC. Dr. Rozel is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Member of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Behavioral Healthcare Professional of the Year from CIT International, the Ralph C. Wilde Leadership Award from the Allegheny County Medical Society, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Psychiatric Society.

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