Facility Redwood City Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Address Psychiatry and Chemical Dependency Treatment Program 1400 Veterans Blvd. 4th floor Redwood City CA 94063 Telephone Appt/Advice: Psychiatry (650) 299-4777 Appt/Advice: Chemical Dependency (650) 299-4778 Cancellation: (650) 299-4739 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

My Office Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	8:15 am 2:30 pm	8:15 am 1:30 pm	8:15 am 1:00 pm	8:15 am 2:15 pm	8:15 am 1:00 pm

Welcome to my Kaiser Physician Home Page. To the left you will see useful links to mental health websites and resources. Above you will see my office hours and below you will see links to other resources at Kaiser Permanente.

I am a general adult psychiatrist working with a superb team of psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists here at the Redwood City Department of Psychiatry. We are located on the 4th floor of 1400 Veterans Blvd (near Chestnut St.) and have ample free parking behind our building.

I decided to practice psychiatry so that I would have the luxury and privilege to get to know each of my patients well. I treat each patient as an individual and it is an honor to be entrusted the responsibility of doing so.

It is often difficult to acknowledge and/or seek treatment for an emotional or substance abuse problem. Our society still feels mental health is somehow different in its seriousness or degree of pain than purely physical illness; that somehow a patient should be able to "tough it out" rather than ask for help. Not true. Psychiatric illnesses are not only very common but contribute to a large percentage of the misery, lost days of work, failed relationships and even contribute to many physical illnesses in our society.

I chose to work here at Kaiser Permanente because here psychiatry is taken seriously. While maintaining confidentiality, Psychiatry partners with Kaiser's medical departments here to treat the "whole person" with respect and dignity. Here at Kaiser Permanente I can work together with my colleagues, within my department and by consulting with my medical peers to put together with my patient the best plan for a person mental health, and to do so with respect and dignity.

A bit about myself

I grew up right here on the San Francisco Peninsula and majored in Human Biology at Stanford University. There I focused on public health policy and human nutrition. I crossed the country to attend medical school in the Bronx at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where I especially enjoyed both psychiatry and working in pediatrics in the South Bronx. A headed back to the West Coast for a year of Pediatrics interning at Children’s' Hospital in Los Angeles before completing my Psychiatric Residency at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. After residency I worked for two years on the UCLA faculty in a private practice as well as in the outpatient clinic and as Medical Director of the Adult Outpatient Eating Disorders Clinic. In 1992, with my family, I returned to the Bay Area and worked in my current department from 1992-1996 when I again returned to the East Coast. While there I stayed home with my growing family, did tons of volunteering running book drives and helping with art and library projects in the schools. I learned to love gardening and learned that summer was much shorter than winter in Massachusetts. In 2001 I returned with my family to Kaiser Permanente and rejoined my colleagues here at Redwood City. I am here to stay. I still enjoy gardening, reading, and a bit of sewing in my "spare time".

Though my practice is a general adult psychiatric practice, I am often referred patients with Eating Disorders, women with postpartum depression, and people who have been through a loss or are in unhealthy or abusive relationships. I always ask that you be honest with me about what is going on in your life-we don't actually read minds and letting me know that, for instance you stopped your medications, or did in fact slip up on your sobriety, is much more likely to help us get you help than denying those kind of things.

If you should become part of my practice, I will work with you as a team to help obtain the best combination of services for your particular needs. This may involve crisis-based individual intervention, group-based programs, and/or medication management. Please feel free to ask questions, call myself, our crisis team, and/or our medication nurses for help. I always ask that when you leave messages you include your Kaiser Permanente number and your phone number as well as the best place to reach you and whether I am free to leave a message if your are not there. If you need to cancel an appointment, please do so with as much lead time as you can; life happens-please reschedule and leave your time open for another member. Thank you.

My Credentials

Medical school	Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Internship	Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Residency	UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Board certification	Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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