Dr. Douglas currently is Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University. He is also a Guest Professor of Applied Criminology at Mid-Sweden University, and a Senior Research Advisor at the University of Oslo. He has been at SFU since 2004, after having spent three years on faculty at the University of South Florida, in Tampa. Dr. Douglas received his law degree in 2000 from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. in clinical (forensic) psychology from Simon Fraser University in 2002. He received a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Scholar Award (2005-2010), and was the recipient of the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law (2005), awarded jointly by the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He was on the Executive Board for the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association) and the Board of Directors for the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS). Currently he is the Treasurer of IAFMHS. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. He is or has been the Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or Co-Investigator on grants totaling approximately $5.5 million CAD. His research interests include violence risk assessment and management, the association between various mental and personality disorders (i.e., psychosis; psychopathy) and violence, and dynamic (changeable, treatment-relevant) risk factors. More recently, he has been conducting research on other violence-related adverse experiences, including suicide-related behaviour, and being victimized by violence. On these topics, Dr. Douglas has provided extensive training, and has authored over 100 journal articles, books, or book chapters. In addition to co-authoring the HCR-20 (Versions 1, 2, and 3), he is also co-editor of the HCR-20 Violence Risk Management Companion Guide.