(a) Pursuant to Judiciary Law, section 35 or any other statute, rule or regulation providing for additional opinion the director shall assist in obtaining, through a panel or otherwise, such additional opinion.

1. (1) A panel of highly qualified psychiatrists shall be constituted and maintained by the presiding justice in cooperation with the New York Academy of Medicine in consultation with the local chapters or branches of the psychiatric or medical profession.
2. (2) The designation of a psychiatrist shall be made, except when the patient pays for his or her own psychiatrist or when the appointment is made pursuant to article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law, from the aforesaid panel and shall be as far as possible on rotation basis.
3. (3) No psychiatrist, psychologist, physician or other expert shall be appointed by the court if he or she is disqualified under provisions of the Mental Hygiene Law or if he or she is employed at the institution in which the patient is hospitalized or residing or to which the patient may be transferred as a result of the proceeding in which the expert is to render his or her opinion.

(b)