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About me

I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, in a medical family. My father was the first cardiologist in the Rocky Mountain Region. My mother was a dermatologist. And my brother is a radiologist and a soft tissue therapist. When I was 11, I decided to become a physician. I have always tried to give to my patients the quality care and attention that I saw my parents give their patients.

I finished my undergraduate education at the University of Colorado in 1965, and then began my medical training at the University of Colorado Medical Center. After my sophomore year, I married and moved to San Francisco. I graduated from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center in 1969.

I have always enjoyed working with children and adolescents. In 1966, I had a National Institutes of Health grant to study childhood nutrition in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In 1970, I had pediatrics internship at Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. I then received my Adult Psychiatry Residency (1993) and my Child Psychiatry Fellowship (1974) training at Langley Porter Hospital, UCSF Medical Center. I am Board Certified in both Adult and Child Psychiatry and I am a member and Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Before I joined Kaiser Permanente in 1993, I had a child and adolescent private practice in Walnut Creek for twenty years. From 1990-1993, I was Medical Director of Walnut Creek Psychiatric Hospital, specializing in ADHD and difficult temperament children. When I came to Kaiser Permanente, I was assigned several adolescent patients with eating disorders. Since then, I have developed a comprehensive inpatient treatment program for such patients. This program is described in detail in my book, “Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Workbook.” This workbook helps the patient with an eating disorder to first understand their illness, then begin to understand themselves and their family dynamics and finally to develop menu plans and coping skills to help them move beyond their eating disorder. Although, I only work with inpatients, I always enjoy hearing from my patients after they have left the hospital.

Outside of the hospital, I enjoy working with Arabian horses, traveling with my family, and participating in my book club.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Internship	Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA
Residency	UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship	UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board certification	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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