Bio
27 years of experience practicing general and geriatric psychiatry, and addiction medicine - inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and telemedicine.
Board Certified in Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and in the new medical specialty of Addiction Medicine
Trained hundreds of resident physicians and medical students in inpatient and emergency room psychiatry and addiction medicine
23 years of experience as director of NIH-funded laboratory performing molecular biology and genetics
Extensive publication record in the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease, and in pharmacogenetics.
Honors & Awards
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Board Certified, Addiction Medicine, ABPM (ABMS) (2018)
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Board Certified, Psychiatry, ABPN
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Board Certified, Geriatric Psychiatry, ABPN
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Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
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Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors, Inc.
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Knight Fellow Favorite Professor, Stanford University
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Alpha Omega Alpha, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
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Phi Beta Kappa, The George Washington University
Professional Education
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M.D., University of California, Davis (1986)
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1984)
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B.A., The George Washington University (1974)