Gina Manguno-Mire, PhD

Gina Manguno-Mire obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Louisiana State University with an emphasis on the assessment and treatment of affective disorders. After completing a clinical internship with an emphasis in PTSD at the New Orleans VA Medical Center, she continued her training in trauma and stress disorders via a three-year research fellowship in PTSD at Tulane University School of Medicine. After joining the faculty at Tulane Medical School in 2003, Dr. Mire re-specialized in forensic psychology following Hurricane Katrina and is presently the only board-certified forensic psychologist with a primary residence in Louisiana. She currently holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Forensic division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane. Dr. Mire currently also serves as the director of Louisiana’s 500+ bed state forensic psychiatric facility where she jointly developed with Tulane an APA-accredited predoctoral internship program and has served as the program’s forensic training director since 2008. Dr. Mire regularly conducts civil and criminal forensic evaluations for attorneys and courts in several states throughout the Gulf Coast and the southwest and frequently serves as an expert witness. Her primary areas of forensic practice are competency, criminal responsibility, mitigation and sentencing, violence risk assessment, and civil forensic evaluations involving trauma and PTSD. She maintains her focused interest in trauma and recently authored a book chapter on the evaluation and treatment of trauma and PTSD in jails. Dr. Mire was also the primary author of a study evaluating the reliability of virtually administered competency evaluations in the mid-2000’s.