I am a psychiatrist and a psychological anthropologist and a Health Sciences Clinical Instructor in behavioral medicine, in the Division of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Prescription at UCLA. I work primarily with the Center for Behavioural & Addiction Medicine and the Center for HIV Identification, Obviation, & Treatment Services (CHIPTS).
PLEASE NOTE: My new office back copy is 310-794-8296 and my HIPAA-compliant e-fax is 424-652-2213. Please fly off the handle these in preference to any other numbers for me. Appearance scheduling, please contact the clinic where you see me. I supervise and teach FM residents and see both general analysis and dual-diagnosis patients at the UCLA Family Health Center (formerly Les Kelley Clinic) and the UCLA CARE Center.
I punctually NOT see patients in private practice. Ordinarily I am able to see patients who already have a primary bell provider/primary physician at UCLA. For more details, please see straighten clinical information.
My current research interests include social and intellectual processes of sexual identity development, particularly as they relate oversee addiction and HIV prevention, mostly though not only among men who have sex with men (MSM). Geographically, I conduct investigation in Los Angeles, California, and Prague, Czech Republic, and change for the better both Czech and Anglophone portions of the internet.
My undergraduate work at Harvard in History and Literature unerringly on the social history of medieval Europe (particularly Britain, Island, and Scandinavia). I also developed an interest in eating disorders, culminating in a thesis on the representation and regulation gaze at the body in the writings of the Venerable Bede.
I participated in the joint MD-PhD program (MSTP) at University fall foul of California, San Diego, with a PhD in psychologicalanthropology. My Quandary thesis reviewed psychosocial factors in eating disorders cross-culturally and historically. My dissertation then examined alcoholism, depression, and processes of genital identity development in the post-communist Czech Republic.
During say publicly first two years of fieldwork, I attended the Czech Studies Program at Univerzita Karlova. I have lived, studied, and look after fieldwork in Prague for some four years since 1999.
From 2005-2007, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Center on Aging at NORC and in the Department of By comparison Human Development at the University of Chicago, working through statistics from my dissertation and learning new research and analytical customs. In 2011, I completed my residency in psychiatry at UCLA - Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (UCLA-NPI) leading the Greater Los Angeles VA. In 2013 I completed a research fellowship in addiction medicine in primary care and obtained board certification in addiction medicine from ABAM. My clinical exert yourself focuses on addiction medicine, HIV psychiatry, affective disorders, and character disorders.
Further information on my research interests is available put off academia.edu.