Credentials

General Psychiatry

Addiction Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry 

Lifestyle Medicine

Adjunct Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Stanford University School of Medicine

Formerly Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

UCSF

Formerly Associate Clinical Professor (Affiliated)

Stanford University School of Medicine

Chief Medical Director

Mental Health and Addiction Services, El Camino Health

Executive Medical Director

Santa Clara County Custody Mental Health

Medical Review Officer (MRO)

Medical Director, Dual Diagnosis, Brief Hospitalization, and New Horizon Programs at the Palo Alto VA Healthcare System. 

Unit Chief, Triple Diagnosis (Psychiatric, HIV, and Substance Use) 

Medical Director, Outpatient Substance Abuse Services at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF 

Distinguished Life Fellow

American Psychiatric Association

Outstanding Community Clerkship Preceptor Award, 2010 

Stanford University School of Medicine

Arthur L. Bloomfield Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine, 2015 

Stanford University School of Medicine.

Medical School

CMC Vellore, India

Residency

General Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Research Fellowship

Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Meditation Teacher 

Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB)