My Background

I am a double board-certified psychiatrist, with board certification in child & adolescent psychiatry and adult psychiatry. I have trained and worked in several institutions which has granted me a view into how psychiatry and psychotherapy are practiced in various settings. I am actively involved in teaching residents and fellows and I am a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

My Education & Training

My undergraduate degree was a B.S. in Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis with a major in Systems Engineering and Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. Upon realizing that engineering was not going to suit my personality for the long term, I raced to complete my pre-medical courses. I earned my medical degree (M.D.) at University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. I then completed four years of psychiatry residency in a combined program between University of Maryland and Sheppard Pratt Hospital. While in residency, I obtained specialty training at the Sheppard Pratt Center for Eating Disorders, completed a fellowship program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and underwent certification to be able to prescribe buprenorphine. Upon moving to California, I completed a two year fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University in Palo Alto. I then completed a one year fellowship at University of California, San Francisco in Forensic Psychiatry.

Along the way, I have embarked upon additional training in several modalities of psychotherapy including psychodynamic psychotherapy, DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), motivational interviewing, parent management therapy, family therapy, couples therapy and mindful self-compassion. I also remain up to date in psychopharmacology.