EDUCATION

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Yearlong Program on Overlapping Worlds: What is Shaping Us and How?

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program - Latency & Adolescent Years

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program - Infant & Toddler Years

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Yearlong Program on Levels of Psychic Functioning

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Yearlong Program on Pathological Organizations

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Integrations: Psychotherapy & Psychoanalytic Theories

San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology

• Board Certification in Psychiatry

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California

• Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Columbia University, New York City, New York

• College of Physicians and Surgeons (Medical School)

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

University of California, Irvine

• Graduate coursework in Philosophy

Prague Summer University, Czech Republic

• two summers of Coursework in Czech Language, Culture & Literature

University of California, Berkeley

• B.A. in Neurobiology

• Minors in Philosophy and German Language & Literature

Summer Semester Abroad in Berlin, Germany

• through Western Washington University

• Coursework in German Language, Economics, Political Science, History & Art History

AWARDS & HONORS

Laughlin Fellowship Award 

• American College of Psychoanalysts 

Regents’ Fellowship in the Humanities

• UC Irvine, Department of Philosophy

Distinction in General Scholarship 

• UC Berkeley

OTHER EXPERIENCE & EMPLOYMENT

2010 – 2013: Class Instructor

• CPMC Psychology Internship 2 month Course on Psychopharmacology & Emergency Psych

6/11 – 12/12: Councilor at Large

• Northern California Psychiatric Society 

5/11 – 7/11: On Duty Physician

• Alta Bates Medical Ctr, Herrick Campus, Berkeley, CA

10/10 – 2/12: Ethics Committee Member

• Northern California Psychiatric Society 

10/10 – 5/11: Member-In-Training Committee Chair

• Northern California Psychiatric Society

7/10 – 5/11: Resident Councilor

• Northern California Psychiatric Society

7/10 – 6/11: Class Coordinator & Instructor

• Dartmouth Medical Student’s Psychiatry Seminar Series during their 6 week CPMC Psychiatry Rotation

7/09 – 6/10: Coordinator for year-long CPMC TOPICS Seminar Series

• a Resident-Organized Seminar Series on Topics in Psychiatry

8/05 – 5/06: Graduate Student Instructor

• Philosophy Department, University of California, Irvine

• Teaching Applied Ethics to Undergraduate UCI Students

6/98 – 8/99 & 6/97 – 8/97: Research Assistant

• for Sophia Vinogradov, MD’s Research on Schizophrenia

• San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Associate Member

• American Psychosocial Oncology Society

• Northern California Psychiatric Society

• Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

• American Psychiatric Association