Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D. is the Executive Director of the University of Virginia’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) and Associate Professor of Research at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. In his role with the CIAG, he has organized annual conferences relating to critical incidents and the Constitution, the terrorist threat abroad, protecting symbols of democracy, the threat of bioterrorism, the National Capitol Region Sniper Incident, Hostage Taking in Iraq and the London Subway bombing. Since 1996, Dr. Saathoff has served as the Conflict Resolution Specialist to the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group. In this role, he consults with the Crisis Negotiation Unit and the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, and has coordinated religion scholar briefings and conferences relating to issues of religion and violence. Over the past fifteen years, he has consulted to five prisons in the Virginia Department of Corrections, treating male and female violent and nonviolent offenders who suffer from mental illness. Dr. Saathoff has served as a consultant and provided expert testimony in cases involving pathologic groups, violent crime, terrorism and espionage.

During the First Gulf War, Dr. Saathoff was called from reserve duty and deployed as a medical corps psychiatrist overseas, earning the Army Commendation Medal in 1991. Dr. Saathoff retired from the Army Reserves with the rank of Major. A member of the University of Virginia’s Kuwait Project, he studied societal trauma in Kuwait subsequent to the Iraqi occupation. Dr. Saathoff has served on the faculty of the Saudi-U.S. Universities Project located at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In addition to the Middle East, his work has taken him to projects in the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and Australia. In 2006, he served as a consultant to the U.S. European Command through the facilitation of a major exercise on Pandemic Influenza, and has served as the Principle Investigator in research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Saathoff has served as the Chair of the Committee on International Relations for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, and currently serves on the Research Advisory Board for the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Dr. Saathoff has written The Negotiator’s Guide to Psychotropic Drugs for the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, and was a co-author of the FBI’s threat assessment monograph: The School Shooter. In addition to this, he has published in the areas of the personality disorders, police psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorders, biologic psychiatry and public response to crises and catastrophic incidents.