
Work Experiences / Areas of Interest
Completed Psychiatric Residency in 2007 from University of Washington Spokane Advanced Clinician Tract. Finished forensic Psychiatry fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco in 2008. Specific research in benzodiazepines and dependence, and murder-suicide. Medical Director of Behavioral Health for the State of Idaho Department of Health and Welfare from July 2008 until April 2010.
Current Clinical Work
I am currently working with Correctional Medical Services to develop their behavioral health system and treat inmates with mental illness in prisons across Idaho. I have a special interest in maximum security offenders and the severely and persistently mentally ill. As a small part-time job I do private forensic psychiatric legal evaluations and I moonlight running the psychiatric inpatient unit once a month on the weekend in Idaho Falls.
Education:
- Forensic Psychiatry – 2008 – University of California, San Francisco
- Psychiatry Residency – 2007 – University of Washington, Seattle
- M.D. – 2003 – Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- B.S. – 1999 – Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City