Dr. Thomas Grayden, MD, specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. He is a physician double-boarded by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in General and Forensic Psychiatry and has been in practice since 1987.
Dr. Thomas Grayden graduated from Arizona State University with premedical studies with a major in Zoology and a minor in chemistry, then returned to his home state of Minnesota to attend medical school at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, then completed a rotating medical internship at UC Davis, then completed a psychiatry residency program at UC Irvine School of Medicine, and then went on to complete a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Upon completing the forensic fellowship, he was recruited to return to UC Irvine to become a full-time faculty member, leading up to his appointment as a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He had served as the Medical Director of Outpatient Psychiatric Services at UC Irvine Medical Center for over 15 years. He developed and later became the Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Dr. Thomas Grayden is a volunteer clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC Irvine School of Medicine, teaching psychiatry residents about forensic psychiatry and expert witness testimony. He remains the Chief of Forensic Psychiatry at UC Irvine Medical Center. He has also served as co-investigator with Dr. Steven Potkin at the UC Irvine School of Medicine in numerous clinical research studies in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, and Dementia, utilizing functional MRI and PET brain imaging studies.
He continues to serve as an expert witness in psychiatry in Orange County Superior Court, testifying in well over 10,000 cases involving civil or criminal court.
Outside work, Dr. Thomas Grayden and his wife, Dr. Michelle Grayden, enjoy time with their six German shepherds, children, and grandchildren.