The Robert L. Sadoff Professorship of Forensic Psychiatry II

This Professorship was established in 2022, when the value of the endowment of the Robert L. Sadoff Professorship of Forensic Psychiatry had increased sufficiently to support a second professorship. Funded by an anonymous gift, the original Professorship is a tribute to Robert L. Sadoff, MD, one of the founders of forensic psychiatry.

While pursuing his medical degree, Dr. Sadoff was drawn to the emerging field of forensic psychiatry. Adding legal courses and experience in court-martial psychiatry to his training, he was welcomed into the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) in 1969. As its second president, he helped develop the AAPL into the leading association supporting the professional development of forensic psychiatrists.

Dr. Sadoff joined the Penn faculty in 1972 and has contributed hundreds of scholarly articles to the field. His practice has included serving as clinical director of a maximum-security psychiatric hospital; examining thousands of individuals charged with crimes, many of them homicides; and consulting on numerous civil and administrative law cases.

He considers his roles as teacher and mentor his most important and is especially proud to have received the Earl D. Bond Award for outstanding teaching at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Dean’s Special Award in 2008 for his significant and unique contributions to the teaching of medicine. He is currently working to develop a formal Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program at Penn to strengthen the profession for future generations.

Current Chairholder

E. Cabrina Campbell, MD

E. Cabrina Campbell, MD had the honor of being taught by Robert L. Sadoff, MD during residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice Chair of Education, and Director of Residency Training as well as the Robert L. Sadoff Professor in Forensic Psychiatry II in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Campbell is a member of the inaugural class of the Academy of Master Clinicians. Her area of research is schizophrenia, often co-occurring with substance use disorders.

Dr. Campbell has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards including three Humanism in Medicine Awards from the following organizations: the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Perelman School of Medicine (the Leonard Tow Award), and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. For this last award, she was chosen as a faculty inductee by Penn medical students. The American Psychiatric Association selected her for both the Nancy C.A. Roeske Award for excellence in medical student education and the Irma Bland Award for excellence in residency education.  She has received the coveted University-wide Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Teaching Award and been selected as a Provost Penn Fellow.  In the Perelman School of Medicine, she has received the following recognitions for her teaching: the Blockley-Osler Award for Excellence in Teaching Clinical Medicine at the Bedside and the Robert Dunning Dripps Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. She is a faculty inductee to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Penn Med Minority Hall of Fame.  Dr. Campbell is a four-time recipient of the “Penn Pearls” Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching and numerous awards from the Department of Psychiatry.