RESUMÉ
Clinical Practice
Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry
10850 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1210
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
310-470-9775
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
California Medical License: A066651
2002-present | Private Practice Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatry. Los Angeles, California
2002-present | Psychiatric Consultant, GLASS. Los Angeles, California
2004-present | Associate Clinical Professor. Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
2003-2004 | Assistant Clinical Professor. Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Education
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2000-2002 |
University of California, Los Angeles, NPI |
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1997-2000 |
University of California, Los Angeles, NPI |
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MD |
1995 |
Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology |
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PhD |
1993 |
History of Science, Harvard University |
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ScB |
1986 |
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AB |
1986 |
French Literature, Brown University |
Honors & Fellowships
- Norbert & Charlotte RiegerPsychodynamic Psychotherapy Award of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002
- Alex Rogawski Memorial Prize, UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association, 2002
- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry-Pfizer Outstanding Resident in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001
- Laughlin Fellow, American College of Psychiatrists, 2000-2001
- American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, 1999-2000
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities,
Dept. of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97 - Center for the Study of Women, UCLA;Research Scholar, 1995-96
- Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, UCLA;
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995-96 - University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine;Fellow, 1995-96
- Harvard Medical School Award for Multiculturalism and Diversity, 1995
- Henri Lurcy Foundation Traveling Fellowship, Paris, 1992-93
- Columbia University, Graduate Research Institute Fellow, Paris, 1992-93
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1988-1991
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Berlin 1990
- M.I.T. Council for the Arts Grant (for work in handmade paper), 1987
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship[declined], 1988
- SmithKline Beckman Medical Perspectives Fellowship, Paris, 1986
- Clendening Traveling Fellowship in the History and Philosophy of Medicine
(University of Kansas), Paris, 1986 - Paul Dudley White Fellowship, Harvard Medical School [declined] 1986
- Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1985
- Miekeljohn Fellow, Brown University, 1984
- Ruth Electa Collins Award (for excellence in French Literature), Brown University,1984
- Sigma Xi (science honor society), Brown University, 1983
- Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), Brown University, 1982
Teaching & Research Experience
UCLA |Neuropsychiatric Institute
- Core Curriculum Course Director: Gender/Cultural Psychiatry (2004-2005)
- Supervisor: Resident Psychotherapy Clinic (2003-present)
- Co-instructor with Dr. Diana Miller, psychiatry residency course:Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry (July 1999, August-September 2000)
- Instructor: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry (Sept. 2001, May 2004)
- Instructor: "Adolescent Trangenderism" (2002-present)
UCLA |Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
Instructor (1998-2001). Courses taught:- Gay Science:The Medical History of Homosexuality (Winter 2001)
- The History of the Medical Treatment of Homosexuality (Winter 2000)
- Hermaphrodites, Homosexuals, and Transsexuals:Medical Manipulations of Sex (Winter 1999)
- Prescriptions for Perversity:Treating Homosexuality in the United States (Winter 1998)
- Guest lecturer on The Biology of Homosexuality, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies.Fall 1999 and Fall 2000.
Pfizer Health Solutions
Consultant. Revised a Mood Disorders Literature Review for a Clinical Management System (1999)
UCLA | Department of History
Visiting Assistant Professor (1995-1996). Courses taught:- From SEX to TEXT: Medical Inscriptions (En)gendering the Body.
- Prescriptions for Perversity:Treating Homosexuality in the United States
- The Race that Is Not One:Science and the Un/Colored Folks
Harvard College | Department of the History of Science
Junior Seminars (1990, 1992, 1994). Designed syllabi and taught:
- From SEX to TEXT: Medical Inscriptions (En)gendering the Body, on the medical construction of deviant bodies such as those of prostitutes, hysterical women, paraphiliacs, and people with AIDS.
- Cretins, Criminals and Perverts:The Social, Political and Sexual Anxieties of Degeneration in 19th-Century France, on the medical theory of degeneracy and its impact on social theory in France.
Senior Tutor (1989-1996). Supervised the research and writing of fourteen Senior Honors Theses on topics including:
- AIDS in Zaïre
- evolutionism and feminist theory in nineteenth-century France
- the reception of Freud in America
- epilepsy and forensic medicine in late-nineteenth-century America
- the history of immunology
- syphilis as a metaphor in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus
- American medical representations of lesbian bodies
Junior Tutor (1987-1994). Designed syllabi and taught eleven individual reading and research tutorials on topics including:
- race and medicine in nineteenth-century America
- women’s health
- the history of midwifery and obstetrics
- medicine and post-colonialism
- post-modern critiques of science
- medical constructions of twentieth-century American working-class women
- representations of AIDS in the Hispanic-American community
Teaching Fellow
- 1990 | The History of Psychiatry. Professor Anne Harrington
- 1989 | Disease and History: The U.S. and the Conquest of the ‘Great White Plague’ 1842-1952. Professor Barbara Rosenkrantz
- 1988 | The Social History of American Medicine. Professor Allan Brandt
Harvard College | Department of Romance Languages
Teaching Fellow
- 1992 | Dangerous Bodies and Lady Killers: Gender and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century France, Professor Jann Matlock. Responsible for three weekly discussion sections in French and English.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Teaching Fellow
- 1987-88 | Introduction to the Neurosciences, Professor Anne Graybiel. Wrote and edited the course notebook for a graduate/medical school course.Responsible for grading, teaching and for neuroanatomy prosections.
- 1988 | Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Professor Walter Abelman. Led weekly discussion sections and graded examinations and problem sets.
- 1986 | Topics in Quantitative Physiology, Professor Felix Villars.Assisted in developing and teaching a new graduate/medical school course in biophysics.
Brown University
- 1981-84 | Office of the Dean for Students. Tutored in mechanical engineering, electromagnetism and applied mathematics.
- 1981-84 Teaching assistant in: Digital Electronics Circuit Design,Biophysics,Medical HealthTechnology: Costs vs. Benefits,Freshman Engineering Laboratory.
- 1983-84 | Biomedical Sciences Department, Physiology Laboratory. Created an educational computerized model of ion transport in epithelia.
- 1984 | Division of Bioengineering. Developed neural network models of the generation of corrective saccades by the occulomotor system. Bell Communications Research Video and Data Services Laboratory.
- 1984 | Developed an interactive, computer-assisted video-instruction system and investigated its application to a digital electronics course.