Our Team

Dr. Miller is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University. He is a member of the Faculty for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship.

He holds Board Certification in Psychiatry, Neurology, Addiction Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry. He obtained his BA from the University of Michigan, MD from Howard University, and completed residencies in Psychiatry from Johns Hopkins and the University of Minnesota, Neurology from the University of Minnesota, and fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Minnesota.  He maintains an active practice and teaching in Medical-Legal Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, and Clinical Psychiatry. He obtained his law degree from Michigan State University and is licensed to practice law in Michigan.

Dr. Staats joined the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia in 2021. She is currently working as a unit psychologist at East Central Regional Hospital. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis. She then completed an APA accredited internship focused on forensic psychology and a forensic fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia. Her areas of forensic expertise include competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, and violence risk assessments.

Dr. William Parker has served as an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Georgia since 2019. Prior to that he was in private practice with collateral responsibility as the Radiology Medical Director at Wills Memorial Hospital. Dr. Parker received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He spent five years of training in General Surgery residency and transitioned to complete Diagnostic Radiology residency. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Neuroradiology, all at the Medical College of Georgia. He is Board certified in Diagnostic Radiology, with anticipated additional board certification in Neuroradiology September 2022. Dr. Parker serves as a forensic consultant and provides witness testimony on matters related to diagnostic and neuroradiology. Modalities include computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), conventional radiography, fluoroscopy and ultrasound for the performance of procedures, as well diagnosis and characterization of disease processes and pathology of the central and peripheral nervous system, spine, head and neck.

Dr. Jeremy G. Gay joined the Medical College of Georgia faculty in 2022. He received both a BA in Psychology and a MS in Clinical Psychology from Augusta University and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Georgia Southern University. Dr. Gay completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Medical College of Georgia, with an emphasis in forensic psychology, and a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at the Medical College of Georgia. He currently serves as an inpatient psychologist at East Central Regional Hospital. Dr. Gay’s areas of forensic expertise include police officer evaluations (e.g., pre-employment and annuals), fitness for duty evaluations, violence risk assessment, and malingering assessment, as well as competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at a number of professional conferences on a variety of topics including factors predicting both initial opinions of incompetency to stand trial and ultimate prediction of competency restoration outcomes; psychopathy; and moral decision making. He is a member of Division 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Dr. Dale Peeples joined the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia in 2006 and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior. He received his medical doctorate from The University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 2001. Dr. Peeples completed his training as a child psychiatrist at the Medical College of Georgia in 2006. He is Board certified in both general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.  His areas of expertise include standard of care and appropriate assessment in child psychiatry and the effects of social media on mental health.

Dr. Martin Rutkowski is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Rutkowski joined the faculty in 2019 after receiving his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completing a neurosurgery residency at the University of California, San Francisco. After residency, he completed additional fellowship training in open and endoscopic skull base surgery and surgical neuro-oncology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Rutkowski mentors neurosurgery and otolaryngology residents, MCG medical students and received the Exemplary Teaching Award for his work in graduate medical education. He is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed articles and an editor at multiple neurosurgery journals. Dr. Rutkowski’s forensic and research interests include all aspects of cranial neurosurgery, specifically promoting quality improvement and patient safety in brain tumor care.

Alan R. Furness, DMD, is currently the Associate Dean for Patient Services at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University.  Dr. Furness is a 1999 graduate from MUSC and successfully completed an AEGD residency in the Navy. He owned and operated a dental practice in Charleston, SC, and was recruited by The DCG in 2010.  He is currently a guest lecturer in the operative, esthetics, and advanced prosthodontics courses where he lectures on technology and posterior indirect ceramic restorations using CAD/CAM technology.  In 2014, he was awarded the Pierre Fauchard, “Excellence in Dental Education” and “Outstanding Faculty Member” from the International College of Dentists both in 2014 and 2016.  In his current role, Dr. Furness oversees clinical and simulation activities for pre and postdoctoral programs and faculty practice. Dr. Furness’ forensic expertise includes making dental evidence meaningful within a legal context in the assessment of the standard of care and interpretation of dental evidence.

Dr. Antonia Kolokythas, DDS, MSc, MSed, FACS, serves as the Chair and Program Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Dental College of Georgia (DCG) at Augusta University as of January 2023.  Prior to joining the faculty at Augusta University, she served at the University of Rochester and the University of Illinois. Dr. Kolokythas earned her a dental degree at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece and completed residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She trained in two surgical fellowships in Head and Neck-Maxillofacial oncology and Reconstruction at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Kolokythas obtained a second Master’s degree in Health Professions Education at the University of Rochester in 2019. She has served as an Examiner in the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS) since 2017 and as Content Expert in Reconstruction for ABOMS since 2015. She was named one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry in the Dental Products Report. Dr. Kolokythas is an author of multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Her areas of expertise include oral head and neck cancer, maxillofacial pathology, and reconstruction.

Dr. Hergott joined the faculty of the College of Allied Health Sciences at Augusta University in 2015.  She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy.  She is board certified in geriatrics and holds advanced training as an ACSM Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist and APTA Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults. Dr. Hergott received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the Army-Baylor University. Dr. Hergott’s areas of expertise include physical activity and fall prevention for older adults.

Dr. Zachary Klaassen serves as Associate Professor, Director of Urologic Clinical Research, and the Ronald W. Lewis Endowed Chair for Urologic Education in the Department of Urology since 2018. He became the Program Director of the Residency training program in 2020. Dr. Klaassen completed his medical education at St. George’s University School of Medicine. He subsequently completed a Urology residency at the Medical College of Georgia and a Society of Urologic Oncology fellowship at the University of Toronto. While on fellowship, he completed a Master of Science at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. He is Board Certified American Board of Urology. He serves on the review board of seventeen academic publications and is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications.  His areas of expertise include treatment and outcome prediction in prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, and penile cancer.

Rodger D. MacArthur, MD, FIDSA, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Office of Academic Affairs at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Dr. MacArthur earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 1983.  He completed his residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1986.  Subsequently, he completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 1988.

Dr. MacArthur has published extensively in the fields of sepsis and HIV, including antiretroviral (AR) resistance, adherence to AR therapy, and complications of AR therapy.  He has provided clinical care to HIV-infected persons for over 30 years.  He served on the NIH/DAIDS/ Underrepresented Populations Committee from 2010 – 2014, and was the HIVMA representative to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Public Health Committee from 2013 – 2016.  He is a Fellow of the IDSA, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

His current research interests include HIV, sepsis, and viral respiratory pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2.  He has received funding from the NIH to conduct clinical trials research, primarily in the field of HIV, for over 30 consecutive years.  He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications to his credit.

Dr. MacArthur is a recipient of the Medical College of Georgia Exemplary Teaching Award in 2018, 2019, and 2020.  He has supervised multiple student-led projects, which have led to publications in peer-reviewed journals and international oral presentations by the students.  He teaches CBL, PCL, and gives many of the microbiology/infectious diseases lectures in the pre-clinical curriculum.

Dr. Imam has served at the Medical College of Georgia since 2020. Dr. Imam received his medical degree from Tishreen University School of Medicine in Latakia, Syria in 2012, after which he relocated to the United States and joined the Medical College of Georgia as a research assistant in the departments of Otolaryngology and Obstetrics/Gynecology. He then completed his residency training in internal medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine/Orange Park Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. 

Dr. Imam serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.  Dr. Imam’s area of forensic expertise is in the standards of care of hospitalized patients and medical malpractice.