Sherif Soliman, MD

Dr. Soliman is the medical director for the Atrium Health Community Capacity Restoration Program and the Program Director for the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program. He is board certified in General, Forensic, and Geriatric Psychiatry and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Wake Forest of Medicine and Atrium Health. In addition, he holds an academic appointment at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed medical school (2000), psychiatry residency (2004), and geriatric psychiatry fellowship (2005) at Wayne State University in Detroit and has completed Forensic Psychiatry fellowship training at Case Western (2006).

After graduating fellowship in 2006, Dr. Soliman served as an attending psychiatrist at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare and as the Associate Forensic Director of the former Cleveland Campus of Northcoast. Dr. Soliman’s duties included treating and evaluating forensic and civil patients, completing forensic reports such as risk assessments and competence to stand trial evaluations, and designing policies for the treatment and assessment of forensic patients. Dr. Soliman was also forensic psychiatrist at the Cuyahoga County Court Clinic and the City of Cleveland Municipal Court Psychiatric Clinic. Dr. Soliman’s duties included completing forensic reports such as sanity at the time of the act evaluations, mitigation of penalty evaluations, and competence to stand trial evaluations, among others. He served as a CIT trainer for the Cleveland Police Department.

Dr. Soliman moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018 to join Atrium Health, where he works as a forensic psychiatrist and an emergency department psychiatrist. In addition, he does forensic psychiatric evaluations at Broughton Hospital. Dr. Soliman servs as chair of the Geriatric Psychiatry and the Law Committee at the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, is a past president of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and has been awarded the Award for Best Teacher in a Forensic Fellowship by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. This award is awarded for excellence in teaching forensic psychiatry fellows. Dr. Soliman is active in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. In addition to teaching residents at Atrium Health, he teaches forensic psychiatry fellows at Case Western Reserve, residents at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), and been an invited speaker at other residency programs throughout the country. He has also lectured at Continuing Legal Education conferences and to adult protective services workers.