Vivian Chern is a board-certified forensic psychiatrist who has found her niche working within the New Jersey prison system. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, and she trained at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the State University of New York at Buffalo, followed by the Fellowship Program in psychiatry and law at New York University. Vivian lives with her husband, three sons, and a large bull mastiff in New Jersey.