Dr. Katherine Warburton is the Statewide Medical Director for the California Department of State Hospitals, which has over 6,000 beds and is the largest forensic inpatient system in the county. She is an Associate Professor on the Clinical Faculty within the UC Davis Division of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Warburton is board certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Her areas of interest include public policy, public forensic mental health care delivery systems and inpatient aggression. She has presented both nationally and internationally and has published multiple peer reviewed articles on a variety of forensic topics. Dr. Warburton has produced two textbooks: Violence in Psychiatry and Decriminalizing Mental Illness. Dr. Warburton works at the national level on the board of directors for NRI and as a non-federal member of the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.