Dr. Chris Kunkle is a forensic psychologist with nearly 30 years of experience in forensic services and forensic mental health. He is currently Deputy Director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where he serves as the agency’s Chief Behavioral Health Officer overseeing  mental health, addiction recovery and sex offender services for more than 16,000 inmates at 21 prisons, as well as an 82-bed licensed forensic psychiatric hospital. Dr. Kunkle is also the former Chief Psychiatric Examiner and Director of Institutional Sex Offender Treatment for the NY State Office of Mental Health Division of Forensic Services , where he spent 10 years developing and operating programs to treat Sexually Violent Predators, and reforming prison-based sex offender treatment. Dr. Kunkle’s efforts have been recognized through the receipt of several awards for his work to improve risk assessment and treatment in forensic mental health, and he has been acknowledged as a national expert on the use of forensic psychology in both treatment and criminal investigation practices. Dr. Kunkle has worked with several states in the Northeast, South and Midwest as either an employee or consultant in the treatment of forensic mental health populations and has been qualified as an expert in forensic psychology in criminal and civil court throughout these regions.