about me

I am a San Francisco Bay Area native, the younger son of a child psychiatrist and a pain specialist RN.

I started my undergraduate education at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA, then to UC San Diego, where I graduated with Highest Honors/summa cum laude in Political Science - Public Policy. From there I moved to New York City to get my MD at Weill Cornell Medicine, where I graduated in the top three of my class.

I completed 3 years of adult psychiatry and 2 years of child psychiatry training at UCSF, where I finished as chief fellow of child psychiatry. I went on to complete one more year of fellowship in addiction psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Anschutz, focusing on addiction in adolescents.

since 2021, I have been working full time at the San Francisco VA as an Assitant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, treating veterans and teaching young doctors how to do this work I love. I have learned more in this position than all of my training before it.

ultimately, my primarily expertise is in psychopharmacology most broadly. that is, the intersection between medicines and minds, and the utilization of medicines to improve mental well-being.

I work primarily in a consultative, rather than proscriptive, role, understanding that every person is the world's #1 expert on themselves.

I hope we can work together to help you meet your goals.