Physician and psychiatrist that offers team facilitation, patient care and medication administration expertise paired with outstanding recordkeeping and communication abilities. Patient-oriented and respectful professional with experience providing preventive treatment, evaluating clients and diagnosing illnesses. Academic interests and professional activity focused on alcohol and drug addiction and psychoanalytic psychoterapy, specially within undeserved communities. Committed to facilitating optimal care through highly individualized and dedicated patient contact.
Skills
Patient Evaluation
Symptom Assessment and Evaluation
Determining and Prescribing Medication
Patient Education
Treatment Planning
Disease Prevention
Good Work Ethic
Active Listening
Experience
03/2013 to 05/2016
PsychiatristRefresh Mental Health – La Jolla, CA,
Composed private practice with two more colleges. Would participate and discuss within group to establish best mental healthcare standards over ethical and scientific base.
Worked directly with patients suffering from range of mental health problems and provided good standard of practice care.
Assessed patients by reviewing mental and physical health along with individual backgrounds and current social situations.
Designed individualized care plans and conducted lab or diagnostic tests on patients to provide further information regarding particular mental disorders and general physical conditions.
Prescribed and administered psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments to treat mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.
Gathered and maintained patient information and records and obtained social or medical history.
03/2013 to 04/2016
PsychiatristRefresh Mental Health – La Porte, IN,
This outpatient drug addiction treatment center had as objective to assist underserved community on suburbs of São Paulo city, SP, Brazil.
Worked directly with patients suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and mental health comorbidities and provided good standard of practice care.
Collaborated with nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists to design individualized care plans and discuss therapeutic strategies and progress.
Would assist patients on private appointments, group therapy, home visits and also help to promote mental health in community.
Agenda scheduled with 30 minutes private appointments for psychiatric evaluation, diagnostic, psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic prescription and management and follow ups of outpatients.
Assessed, prescribed pharmacological treatment, managed and referred to inpatient treatment, if needed, any psychiatric emergency that would arise during shift.
03/2013 to 04/2016
PsychiatristRefresh Mental Health – Lafayette, LA,
Worked in this Public Health Unity, called UBS Nossa Senhora do Carmo, in underserved suburbs of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Worked directly with patients suffering from range of mental health problems and provided good standard of practice care.
Conducted psychiatric evaluations and executed medication management for this outpatient facility.
Assessed patients by reviewing mental and physical health along with individual backgrounds and current social situations.
Collaborated with nurses, doctors, social workers and psychologist to discuss treatment plans and progress.
Designed individualized care plans and conducted lab or diagnostic tests on patients to provide further information regarding particular mental disorders and general physical conditions.
03/2013 to 04/2016
PsychiatristRefresh Mental Health – Lake Zurich, IL,
Worked in this Public Health Unity, called UBS José Bonifácio II, in underserved suburbs of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Created, with local healthcare management team and social worker of this institution, space to assist adults with intellectual disability, that wouldn't be able to find care in other institutions, usually focused on children with intellectual disabilities.
Worked directly with patients with intellectual disability and suffering from range of mental health problems and provided good standard of practice care.
Assessed patients by reviewing mental and physical health along with individual backgrounds and current social situations.
Collaborated with nurses, doctors, social workers and psychologist to discuss treatment plans and progress.
Diagnosed, prescribed and administered psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional or behavioral disorders under strict time constraints.
04/2014 to 04/2015
PsychiatristRefresh Mental Health – Longmont, CO,
This outpatient drug addiction treatment center had as objective to assist underserved community on suburbs of São Paulo city, SP, Brazil.
Worked directly with patients suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and mental health comorbidities and provided good standard of practice care.
Collaborated with nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists to design individualized care plans and discuss therapeutic strategies and progress.
Would assist patients on private appointments, group therapy, home visits and also help to promote mental health in community.
Agenda scheduled with 30 minutes private appointments for psychiatric evaluation, diagnostic, psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic prescription and management and follow ups of outpatients.
Assessed, prescribed pharmacological treatment, managed and referred to inpatient treatment, if needed, any psychiatric emergency that would arise during shift.
03/2010 to 11/2013
PhysicianMclaren Health Care – Tawas City, MI,
Worked as matrix support mental healthcare physician in this public health project designed to mitigate impact of lacking psychiatrists in public healthcare setting.
Would go through multiple healthcare centers weekly discussing psychiatric cases and attending on shared psychiatric appointments with general clinicians or family medicine doctors.
Educate and capacitate general clinicians and family doctors to manage low complexity psychiatric cases, thus reducing referral to psychiatrist.
Provided patient psychiatric diagnosis, test evaluation and treatment under strict time constraints.
Educated patients on procedures, treatment plans, medications and preventive measures.
Prescribed medications, explaining side effects and possible adverse reactions to keep patients informed and alert to potential issues
08/2010 to 05/2011
Emergency PhysicianVigilint – Raleigh, NC,
Would attend weekly 24h shifts in Emergency Department of Hospital, specifically for psychiatric emergencies.
Diagnosed and treated patients with all kinds of psychiatric ailments of rapid and unexpected onset or sudden worsening and crisis. Would also manage clinical emergencies related to drug and alcohol intoxication.
Ordered and executed diagnostic tests and analyzed diagnostic images to investigate patient conditions.
Documented lab results, diagnoses and treatments for review by attending physician.
Advised and educated patients and family regarding mental health, therapeutic options and effective disease prevention methods.
Referred patients to other specialties or to inpatient mental healthcare institutions when needed.
Education and Training
Expected in 11/2013 to to
Addiction psychotherapist: Addiction Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Sedes Sapientiae - São Paulo, SP, Brazil, GPA: Status -
Expected in 02/2013 to to
Specialist in Psychiatry: Psychiatry Hospital Do Servidor Público Estadual - São Paulo, SP, Brazil, GPA: Status -
Expected in 10/2009 to to
M.D.: Medicine Faculdade De Medicina De Marília - Marília, SP, Brazil, GPA: Status -
Expected in to to
: Psychoanalisys Sedes Sapientiae - São Paulo, SP, Brazil, GPA: Status -
Languages
English:
Full Professional
Negotiated:
Portuguese:
Native/ Bilingual
Negotiated:
Spanish:
Professional
Negotiated:
Accomplishments
Presented a case study in the 5th Abramd (Brazilian Multidisciplinary Association for Drug Studies) International Conference, Brasília, DF, Brazil, December 2015.
Author of case study presented at a Seminar in Sedes Sapientiae, São Paulo, SP, Brazil in May 2016.
Certifications
Board-certified Psychiatrist (Brazilian Medical Association and Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, since October 2013)
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