I’m passionate about my purpose in psychiatry and feel privileged that patients entrust me with their most poignant concerns and difficulties. I strive to honor this trust by infusing the breadth of my knowledge, skill and training with the insight, intuition and empathy necessary to help improve the overall quality of life of an individual, rather than to simply alleviate a constellation of symptoms.

After graduating from MCP-Hahnemann University School of Medicine, in Philadelphia, I matriculated to a combined internship/psychiatry residency program at Georgetown University Hospital. Upon completing my specialty training, I assumed a faculty appointment within the Georgetown Department of Psychiatry, where I currently clinically supervise and teach both psychiatry/neurology residents and medical students. Moreover, I have previously served as Associate Director of the Georgetown Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, which has enabled me to hone my clinical expertise in managing particularly treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions.

My facility as both a teaching and a treating psychiatrist affords me a wealth of opportunity to encounter, evaluate and treat diverse conditions, along the entire spectrum of psychiatric illness, as well as the often unclassifiable psychological distress engendered by a vast array of both ordinary and extraordinary human ordeal. Issues I’ve helped patients contend with have ranged from job stress, familial dysfunction, and troubled relationship dynamics to severe abuse, combat trauma and terminal illness. Moreover, in my dual capacity as both an academic and a community clinician, I thrive in serving patients from a variety of different racial, ethnic, religious, educational, socio-economic and lifestyle backgrounds. I continually find this diversity of experience to be informative, enriching and deeply gratifying.