General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  Replace sugar containing drinks.  The best option is to drink water and/or unsweetened tea.  Also fat-reduced milk should replace whole fat or 2% milk.  Diet drinks have not been shown to help decrease weight gain.
• Pediatric Care
  Psychiatric Consultant for Children’s Medical Center (CMC), February 2004 – 2012: monthly interviews and case conferences at CMC (a large primary pediatrics group) to work with families,physicians and social workers on children there with suspected mental health problems.
• Primary Care
  Medical History: Contact information for the client’s primary care physician taken, review of any current or past medical problems and medical complaints is conducted.  A history of vision or hearing problems is assessed.  Next, there is a review of any history of head injury, especially an injury with loss of consciousness, memory loss, or behavior change.  Any surgeries are assessed and history of seizure disorder.
• Emergency Care
  I was born and raised in Denver Colorado.   I grew up with three siblings.  Most of my free time was spent playing sports.  My first love was basketball and I could be found in a gym 4 or 5 days per week.  It took until my teen years to realize I was not good enough for the NBA.  At that time I decided I would do the next best thing: become a sports therapist or trainer.  I went to the University of Colorado for my undergraduate education and majored in kinesiology.  That is roughly translated as “the study of movement in physical activity”.  During my junior year in college, after taking “anatomy and physiology”, I realized that my real interest was to become a physician.  I initially wanted to become an emergency room physician.  I worked as an emergency department technician in Denver for three years beginning with my senior year of college.  I eventually became lead technician and enjoyed teaching and training new emergency medical technicians.  I matriculated into medical school in 1995 after almost three years in the emergency department.

Gynecologists

• Obstetrics
  Osteopathic medicine (also known as osteopathy) is a complete system of medical care with a philosophy that combines the needs of the patient with current practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics. It emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function, and has an appreciation of the body’s ability to heal itself
• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  As a psychiatry intern, I spent four months working internal medicine at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital (VA) and the county hospital known as Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC).  I treated inpatients in critical care and on general medicine floors.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  In the United States, psychiatrists can be board certified as specialists in their field. After completing four years of college, then 4 years of medical school, these physicians practice as psychiatry residents. After completing their training, psychiatrists take written and then oral board examinations administered by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  CHADD – This is a detailed site that has good information for parents of children with ADD/ADHD, and for children and adults with ADD/ADHD.
• Depression
• Mental Health
  Www.healthyminds.org – This site is sponsored by the APA (American Psychiatric Association) and provides brief descriptions of various mental health problems as well as specialized information such as mental health issues in different ethnicities. THis site contains “Let’s Talk Facts” brochures.
• Psychiatry
  The mission of  Denver Psychiatry is to build a trusting and respectful relationship with all clients.  This relationship serves as the foundation for successful treatment and recovery.  To do this, it is imperative to understand an individual’s goals for treatment as he or she defines them and then help to guide him or her on that path.  I believe in the importance of involving support systems in an individual’s treatment when appropriate. These include, among others, family, friends, significant others, and community resources.  I help people build, or in some cases, repair those systems. I believe in a flexible and creative approach to each case, regularly reassessing an individual’s goals and making changes as needed.  I also believe in alternative treatments and maintain an open mind about integrating those modalities into my work with individuals.
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care