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My Office Hours

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	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 12:30 pm		8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 12:30 pm
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

About Me

I graduated from Justus-Liebig Universität, Gießen, Germany, in 1988. After spending two years completing a PhD in immunology and internship in internal medicine in Munich, I moved to Stony Brook, New York. There I joined the residency program in psychiatry and later added a fellowship in addiction medicine in San Francisco. Since then I have worked in addiction psychiatry here in the Bay Area and briefly in Germany.

I became a physician because it is one of the most intriguing applications of scientific progress combined with the unique patient-doctor relationship. Addiction psychiatry is a young and very dynamic specialty. Staff as well as patients come from very different backgrounds. Their experience and ideas combined with the active research in the field demonstrate how healing and recovery from very deep wounds and severe disease are possible and hopeful. So it is very easy for me to like my job, especially in an environment like Kaiser Permanente, where we provide integrated treatment, a team approach that benefits patients and physicians.

Outside of my work at Kaiser I have many different interests that range from organizing educational activities for the California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) to horseback riding and hiking to reading fiction and, above all, spending time with my family.

My Credentials

Medical school	Justus-liebig Universitat-fachbereich Humanmedizin, Gieben, Germany
Internship	Ludwig-maximilians Universitat Munchen Medizinische, Munich, Germany
Residency	State University of New York At Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Fellowship	Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Board certification	Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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Be sure to check the "Get Health Advice" and "Appointments/Rx refills" menus above for additional information regarding appointments, prescriptions, health education classes and other health-related topics. You can also click on my department link above to receive additional health information.

If you are looking for more specific information about our hospital or our clinics in the Napa Solano Service Area, you can check us out at http://www.kp.org/napasolano.

To choose your own personal physician, click here.

Here is some additional information you may find helpful:

• Checklist for New Members

• About Your Office Visit

• Prevention Information on Your Registration Slip

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