Early Career
After completing his residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins in 1978, Dietz began teaching at Harvard Medical School, where at age 29 he was the school’s youngest assistant professor. While teaching at Harvard, Dietz also was the director of forensic psychiatry at the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Mass.
After four years at Harvard, Dietz became an associate professor at the University of Virginia in 1982, teaching law, behavioral medicine and psychiatry at the UVA School of Law while also being the medical director at UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. He taught on the Charlottesville campus for six years, and was promoted to Professor of Law in the School of Law and Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine.
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