Education and Training

  • Candidate in Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program: New Center for Psychoanalysis

  • Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: New Center for Psychoanalysis

  • Psychiatry Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

  • MD with Honors in Research: Weill/Cornell Medical College

  • MS: Clinical Research, University of California, San Francisco

  • MSc: Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

  • BA: Biology, Swarthmore College

Certifications

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Medical Board of California, #A163293

Academic Appointments

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA

Associate Program Director and Director of Psychotherapy Training, Greater Los Angeles VA Psychiatry Residency, UCLA

Selected Honors and Awards

Faculty of the Year, UCLA GLA/VA Psychiatry Residency

Clinical Teaching Attending Award, UCONN Psychiatry Residency

APA Resident Recognition Award, Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia Psychoanalytic Fellowship, Columbia University Medical Center

The Richard N. Kohl Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) 

The George G. Reader Prize in Public Health, WCMC

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, UCSF

Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College