Biography
Biography:
Dr. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry within the Forensic Neuropsychiatry division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Tulane University School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. He is the Associate Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Buckley graduated cum laude from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology. He earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. Dr. Buckley returned to Tulane and completed a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry. Dr. Buckley is board certified in Psychiatry and board certified in Forensic Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Buckley has multiple publications in The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL). He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (FAPA). His primary clinical duties include providing competency restoration treatment and long-term care of irrestorably incompetent defendants and insanity acquittees at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System, the state forensic hospital of Louisiana. Dr. Buckley performs competency to stand trial evaluations and not guilty by reason of insanity evaluations in East Baton Rouge Parish, Lafayette Parish, and Vermilion Parish. Dr. Buckley is an active member of AAPL, serving on the Ethics Committee (2023 to present). Dr. Buckley has served on the Executive Council of the Louisiana Psychiatric Medical Association since 2017, where he currently serves as LPMA President-Elect (2024-2025), after serving as Treasurer (2023-2024), Secretary (2022-2023), Early Career Psychiatrist Representative (two terms, 2020-2022), Resident/Fellow Physician Representative (2018-2020), and Resident Physician Deputy Representative (2017-2018). In his free time, Dr. Buckley is active in volunteering for charitable organizations in Florida and Alabama that provide authentic summer camp experiences for children with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Publications:
Buckley JC and Kelly DC. Diagnostic Standards for Sex Offender Civil Commitment. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2020; 48.3: 397-399., doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.200044-20
Buckley JC, Turner RA, Kelly DC. Dangerousness Standards for Sex Offender Civil Commitment. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2019; 47.3: 373-375., doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.003879-19.
Buckley JC, Wiedemann BE, Kelly DC. Dangerousness Standards for Insanity Acquittee. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2018; 46.3: 384-386., doi:10.29158/JAAPL.3773L5-18.
Buckley JC, Bernstein J, Cobia B, Brooks WB. A 61-Year-Old Woman with Motor and Behavioral Disturbances. Psychiatric Annals. 2016; 46.9:490, 492-493.