Andrew is a acting assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UW and attending psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital working both in Mood and Anxiety Program and on the Consultation Liaison service.
He is currently engaged in research related to substance use, primarily cannabis use, and loves working with kids and adolescents with conduct and substance use concerns.
He was most recently faculty at the University of Colorado Anschutz where he worked as a CL psychologist in primary care at Children’s Hospital of Colorado. He completed his graduate training at the University of Alabama, a T32-funded postdoctoral fellowship focused on cannabis and nicotine use at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a clinical fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Colorado specializing in primary care psychology.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist in the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, working in adult inpatient care within the Center for Behavioral Health & Learning. I bring specialized training in serious mental illness, inpatient psychiatric care, serving populations with comorbid substance use and/or medical complexity, and enjoy working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient-centered care. I also bring a global public health background in improving service delivery and access in low-resource settings across Africa and Asia.
I graduated with a PsyD in clinical psychology from the University of Denver, after completing my pre-doctoral internship at Mt. Sinai/Elmhurst Hospital in New York. During this internship, I completed rotations in the adult inpatient unit, the child partial hospitalization program, psychiatric emergency room services, and the consultation-liaison psychiatric service, serving a patient population that is among the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the world. I am dedicated to providing high quality, empathetic, and innovative interventions to our inpatient population.
I am a psychiatric consultant in the Behavioral Health Integration Program and inpatient psychiatrist at the Center for Behavioral Health and Learning. Whether in the clinic or hospital, I seek to improve access to high quality psychiatric care, especially in patients with medical complexity and those who have traditionally been underserved. I am passionate about achieving this mission through the integration of psychiatric care into primary care settings. The best part of my job is exploring with patients how their physical health, mental health, identities, and past experiences all contribute to their overall well-being. I enjoy teaching both trainees in psychiatry as well as non-psychiatric providers. I am board-certified in both general psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry.
I am a psychiatrist at the UW. I primarily work at the Long-Term Civil Commitment Unit at Northwest and the consult service at University of Washington Montlake. I see patients with severe mental illness and chronic mental health problems. I also help with the treatment of patients with delirium and medical comorbidities that impact their mental health. I also help plan and give didactics for the Psychiatry residency at UW. My areas of interests are resident education, consult-liason, global mental health, perinatal psychiatry, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I am a consult psychiatrist and clinical instructor at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. I work with people undergoing active cancer care. I previously practiced in the VA outpatient mental health clinic with veterans with mood disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic and serious mental illness. I recently worked as a consult psychiatrist with the Swedish Primary Care Clinics, address a wide variety of concerns in a collaborative behavioral health care setting. I enjoy being a part of medical education, both learning and teaching. However, patient care always comes first.
I am an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. I received my MD, MPH from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed my adult residency at the University of Washington where I was chief resident. I then went on to complete a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the University of Washington. I am currently on faculty at Harborview Medical Center on the inpatient psychiatry unit and inpatient psychiatry consult service. I have a longstanding interest in the intersection between medicine and psychiatry and in working with people who suffer from serious mental illness and treatment-resistant conditions. I have clinical interests in ECT, psychopharmacology, co-morbid medical conditions, and adjunctive psychotherapies. I value caring for the whole person through thorough and accurate diagnosis, treating co-morbid medical conditions, and minimizing medications when possible. I have teaching interests in reducing stigma surrounding serious mental illness and educating residents and medical students about psychiatric care.
