I am a nurse practitioner, health care administrator, nurse theorist, and Associate Clinical Professor in the UCSF School of Nursing. I teach students in the MS program, the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Program, and directly train PMHNP students and psychiatric clinical pharmacy residents.

I currently serve as Chair of the School of Nursing Faculty Practice Committee. I am former Chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Sustainability. I am elected Treasurer of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.

In my faculty practice within UCSF Health Primary Care and the Office of Population Health, I lead a successful program that provides integrated behavioral health care to primary care patients. I have adapted certain techniques of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for efficiency in the primary care setting and train other providers in these strategies.

I also developed and implemented a novel training model to address the shortage of psychiatric providers through training future PMHNPs and clinical pharmacists to collaborate in the care of psychiatric patients (see website below).

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or inquiries.