I have 35 years of experience in the field of psychiatry. I trained at the University of Chicago where I have been a faculty member since 2007. I have also recently joined the faculty of UC-Riverside. I am Board Certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and licensed in Illinois and California. I spent 20 years as a child psychiatry practitioner, working with hospitalized youth. I am a recognized child psychiatry expert with 30 years of experience providing expert testimony regarding traumatic experience and other matters impacting children. I have a systems approach to my work with children that entails involvement of mental and physical health, family, school, and activities.

I am the beneficiary of multiple years of psychoanalytic immersion which I draw on in crafting a practical but dynamic and interpersonal psychotherapy style.