Joe Kenan

Beverly Hills-based Dr. Joe Kenan is a Forensic Psychiatrist who specializes in evaluating those who claim to suffer psychological damage after an injury as well as family law matters. Known for possessing the expertise to evaluate tough cases in the areas of civil, criminal, and custody law, Dr. Joe Kenan often advises on cases that others find perplexing. He enjoys a thriving private psychiatric practice, and also serves as an Associate for Park Dietz & Associates, Inc., a forensic litigation consulting firm located in Newport Beach, California.

In addition, Dr. Joe Kenan supervises clinical trainees at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Psychological Trauma Center. Dr. Joe Kenan completed many years of education in preparing for his vocation. In 1988, he attended Oberlin College & Conservatory in Ohio, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and Biology. In 1997, Dr. Joe Kenan received his Doctor of Medicine from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, and next he served for a year as an intern in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.

Dr. Joe Kenan stayed at the Center as a resident for a year, and then in 1999, he served as a resident again at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry. In 2000, Dr. Joe Kenan began a fellowship at at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in child and adolescent psychiatry, UCLA. After he completed that fellowship, he won another one at in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences’ Division of Forensic Psychiatry, which he completed in 2003.

Well-recognized for his work, Dr. Joe Kenan has received many honors and awards, including becoming a Member at Large of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry in 2006; receiving a Certificate of Appreciation from the Family Court Services Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2004, and being named an Outstanding Fellow in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry in 2000. He has authored many works that have appeared in important journals in the field of forensic psychiatry, lectured on the subject locally and nationally, and acted as both moderator and chair at many conferences on various subjects in the occupation.