Alexander Eduard Obolsky

Dr. Alexander E. Obolsky is a Chicago-based psychiatrist with more than 30 years of experience in clinical and forensic psychiatry. He holds three board certifications from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, covering general psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry. Through his practice, Obolsky Forensic Psychiatry Group, he conducts forensic psychiatric evaluations and provides expert testimony across a range of civil and criminal litigation matters, including catastrophic injury cases, personal injury claims, and workers' compensation proceedings.

His forensic work also extends to discrimination claims, emotional distress assessments, workplace harassment and wrongful termination reviews, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and standard of care analyses involving psychiatric misdiagnosis or treatment. His published research includes a study on the treatment of dangerous patients in managed care settings, examining psychiatric hospital utilization and outcomes, which appeared in General Hospital Psychiatry. Dr. Obolsky is licensed in Illinois.