About The Institute of Forensic Science (IOFS)

The Institute of Forensic Science (IOFS) offers more than just consultation services. It is a mission-driven organization dedicated to delivering essential education, advocacy, and world-renowned expertise across the United States and beyond. We are committed to protecting public health through providing the highest-quality consultations that uphold scientific truth, objective analysis, and unwavering integrity.

Our founders are uniquely qualified to deliver services focused squarely on the best interests of children and families. Our work is rooted in science, grounded in empirical data, objective records, and upheld by the highest standards of clinical, medical, and legal practice. Judges, attorneys, and professionals who partner with IOFS trust that our findings and recommendations are evidence-based and remain free from external influence or agenda.

Providing specialized knowledge to the courts carries a profound fiduciary and ethical responsibility. When expert testimony is unscientific, biased, or unethical, the consequences can be devastating—eroding trust in the justice system and causing lasting harm to families and children.

Our founders have witnessed these failures firsthand. Their personal experiences inspire a relentless commitment to shielding families from judicial incompetence, conflicts of interest, and the corruption of forensic evaluations. Upholding the integrity of expert testimony is not optional—it is essential to protecting the most vulnerable individuals the legal system is designed to serve.

Dr. Bandy X. Lee, M.D.

Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Bandy X. Lee is a world-renowned forensic and social psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence with more than twenty-five years of experience. She served on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for seventeen years before joining the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law.

Dr. Lee earned her M.D. from Yale School of Medicine and her Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. She completed her residency as Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships at both the Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine and the National Institute of Mental Health, where she received the prestigious National Research Service Award.

She is the President of the World Mental Health Coalition and co-founder of the Preventing Violence Now, organizations dedicated to advancing public mental health and preventing societal violence through research, education, and policy reform.

Education

Fellow (2002), Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Resident/Chief Resident (1999), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

M. Div. (1995), Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT

M.D. (1994), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (youngest graduate)

Career/Academic Appointments:

9/20- Program in Psychiatry and Law, Harvard Medical School

7/03-6/20 Law and Psychiatry Division, Yale School of Medicine

7/03-6/20 Instructor, Yale Law School, Yale School of Public Health, and Yale College

Administrative Positions:

•9/21- Co-Founder and Co-Director, Preventing Violence Now
11/17- President, World Mental Health Coalition•
9/11-6/20 Project Group Leader, Violence Prevention Alliance, World Health Organization
9/11-6/20 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Violence and Health Working Group, Yale University
•9/97-9/11 Director of Research, Center for the Study of Violence, Harvard Medical School

Mr. Rory Doyle

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Rory Doyle is a distinguished healthcare consultant, entrepreneur, and executive leader with more than 25 years of experience advising physicians, healthcare organizations, and emerging health-tech companies. He is deeply committed to advancing scientific accountability that protects families, promotes clinical precision and integrity, and safeguards public health. Guided by a mission to elevate scientific excellence within legal systems, Mr. Doyle co-founded the Institute of Forensic Science—an organization dedicated to applying rigorous medical standards and evidence-based practices to family court proceedings in the United States and internationally.

His expertise spans business development, market research and operational efficiency, having partnered with more than 250 healthcare practices nationwide. Mr. Doyle has provided advisory, technology, and growth solutions to specialists in neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, interventional pain management, neurology, physiatry, internal medicine, primary care, endocrinology, vascular medicine, and psychiatry.

He also developed the framework for two web-based healthcare applications designed to deliver granular data to providers and payers, encompassing insights on over 100,000 physicians, administrators, medical conditions, and referral dynamics.

Mission Statement

Delivering transformational forensic science to educate, advocate, and protect public health—upholding the highest medical, legal, and ethical standards in court-involved mental health evaluations.

Our Commitment

The Institute of Forensic Science is committed to:

Advancing the practice of forensic psychiatry and psychology through science, objectivity, and integrity.
Educating the public, legal professionals, and policymakers on the proper role and limits of mental health diagnoses in legal proceedings.
Protecting the rights of individuals impacted by unscientific, unethical, or unlawful forensic evaluations.
Serving as a trusted, data-driven resource for attorneys, judges, plaintiffs, defendants, and healthcare professionals.

Promoting systemic reform by exposing harmful practices and advocating for rigorous standards in forensic mental health assessments.
Setting a national gold standard for evidence-based forensic evaluations using empirical research, DSM-5 criteria, and transparent methodologies.
Ensuring every evaluation meets the highest threshold of clinical accuracy, legal admissibility, and ethical responsibility.

Mission and Commitment:

Mission Statement “Delivering transformational forensic science to educate, advocate, and protect public health—upholding the highest medical, legal and ethical standards in court mental health evaluations.”

To be the nation's trusted expert and leader in forensic and social psychiatry.
To educate, advocate and protect public health through forensic science
To offer the public a trusted resource and tireless advocate for individuals who have been given a “mental health” diagnosis through unprofessional, illegal or baseless means.
To provide healthcare consumers and professionals transparency, integrity and objective outcomes supported by science, empirical data and objective evidence.
To provide actionable intelligence and expert insight to protect public health.

To provide education through science and unwavering integrity.
To set a new gold standard in forensic evaluations using empirical research and DSM-5 criteria.
To provide clients, plaintiffs, defendents, attorneys and Judges in State and Federal Court uniquely qualified expertise using objective data, comprehensive evaluations and precision diagnosis.
To empower individual, attorneys, judge to make informed decisions based on objective medical certainty not subjective opinions
The Institute of Forensic Science will create a new standard of accountability through best practices clinically, operationally and ethically