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Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:00 am 11:30 am	9:00 am 4:30 pm	9:00 am 4:30 pm	9:00 am 4:30 pm	9:00 am 4:30 pm	9:00 am 4:30 pm	9:00 am 11:30 am
Closed during lunch, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

About Me

I have been with Kaiser Permanente for over 13 years and plan on working for another 20 years. My first eleven years were based out of the Vallejo/Vacaville area. Now that my children are starting grade school, I want them to be in the best school district, so we are settling into the Roseville area for a long time.

I originally was raised in Southern California but escaped to College in St. Paul, Minnesota and then to medical school in Wisconsin. Too many cold winters brought me back to Los Angeles for my residency. After graduation, my wife and I explored job opportunities in every state in the Western United States. Our unanimous number one choice was to be with Kaiser Permanente.

My Healthcare Practice

As a psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente, I do therapy and prescribe medications for people who are struggling with interpersonal, emotional, and “thinking” problems in life. These difficulties are the most common in all of medicine and yet sometimes the hardest for people to seek help about.

My goals are to help people realize how normal these problems are, accurately find the correct problem, and then make receiving help as easy as possible.

I find it hard to think of working anywhere else besides Kaiser Permanente. I have freedom to practice medicine the best way I know how without seeking approval from regulatory services. I have a group of colleagues to consult with when I need, and large amounts of educational and technological experiences. I find psychiatry incredibly rewarding. I see so many people whose lives have been unhappy in so many ways. After starting treatment, often with medications, they return 4-6 weeks later and finally have some light in a life that has been dark for such a longtime. It’s a great feeling to see people get better and to know that I had a part in getting them there.

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My Credentials

Medical school	Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Internship	Los Angeles County-Harbor-UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Residency	Los Angeles County-Harbor-UC Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Board certification	Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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