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About Me
All my life I was fascinated by scientific questions, and my early upbringing, especially my mother's influence, oriented me toward medicine. My undergraduate training was at Yale, where I studied molecular biology and biophysics. Having grown tired of New England winters, I moved to California, to attend medical school at University of California, San Diego. There I met and married my wife, Nina Schwartz, MD. She is also a Kaiser Permanente physician, and an Assistant Physician in Chief. Following graduation, I did an internship in Oregon, and then Nina and I bicycled across the United States and Canada.
We served two years as general practitioners at a small hospital on the Navajo Reservation, at Ganado, Arizona. That stint in primary care convinced me that psychiatry was the specialty for me, so I returned to California to do a residency and fellowship. Afterward, Nina and I moved to Napa, and Nina came to Kaiser Permanente in 1987. I chose to join her in 1990 largely because of what I learned from her experience: that Kaiser Permanente was, and is, one of the greatest medical care organizations going. In summer 2005 I was appointed Chief of Psychiatry for the Napa/Solano service area.
Nina and I have raised four sons, all of whom were educated to become engineers.
I speak Spanish, and some German and French; I read ancient Greek. I have written a book of poetry, and have published poems in literary magazines.(Check out Times Ten Poets where I can be found under "Jamie Irons" or take a look at my poetry home page (still "under construction") Thirty-Eight North.)
In my spare time I work on land conservation, and go hiking, fly fishing, and bird watching.
My Credentials
| UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA |
| Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital, Portland, OR |
| UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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