Division of Psychiatry and the Law

Dr. Bonetti completed his medical training at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and joined the Institute of Living as a resident physician in 2009.  Following graduation from the IOL’s Adult Residency Program, he pursued subspecialty training in Forensic Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.  He returned to the Institute of Living following graduation and served as an Inpatient Psychiatrist for two years before transitioning to outpatient and forensic work.  He has been a member of the Hartford Hospital Ethics Committee and served as an Operational lead for the BRIGHT Initiative, a three-year project aimed at reducing violence on inpatient psychiatric units. He has served as faculty in the adult psychiatry residency, presented nationally, and has several publications related to his interests in medical ethics and forensic psychiatry.  He currently serves as the Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Law and an Assistant Medical Director at the Institute of Living.  He holds an Assistant Professorship in Psychiatry at the Uconn School of Medicine and maintains Board Certifications in both Adult and Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr. Ashley Malka obtained her medical degree at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel, with an emphasis on Global Health. She went on to complete her residency training in psychiatry at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program, and then forensic psychiatry subspecialty training at the Yale University School of Medicine, Division of Law and Psychiatry. Her primary interests within the field of psychiatry include trauma and dissociative disorders, their overlap with psychotic disorders, and the implications of that overlap in the legal system. Additionally, due in part to her unique experience with global medicine and her international education pathway, she has a particular interest in cross-cultural psychiatry and the psychiatric impact of forced displacement and migration. She has presented nationally and maintains Board Certification in Adult Psychiatry and is in the process of obtaining Board Certification in Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr. Flack is a clinical psychologist who completed a joint JD/PhD training program specializing in forensic psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He completed several years of training in inpatient settings, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Living adult inpatient units. He currently sits on the Hartford Hospital Ethics Committee, contributes to the BRIGHT initiative to reduce violence on inpatient units, and is a committee member for the Braindance award, a high school program focused on challenging behavioral health stigma. He works clinically from a trauma-informed perspective and utilizes both shorter term cognitive and behavioral interventions, as well as more in depth formulations of personality-related experiences for longer term care. Dr. Flack also has academic interests in understanding and managing aggression (and relevant limitations in our ability to do so) and the intersection of legal systems with behavioral health needs.