VA Psychiatry Residency Training Faculty


Maria Gabriela Aguilera-Nunez, MD, MSc 

VA Mental Health Intensive Case Management

 

Syed Ahmed, MD

VA Psychiatry Consultation Liaison

 

Binyamin Amrami, M.D. 

Chief, VA Domiciliary and Detox 

 

Rusty Baik, MD

Chief, Psychiatry CL

Mark Barad, MD, PhD

Director of VA PTSD/Trauma Recovery Clinic


Caryn Bernstein, MD 

Chief, VA Women's Mental Health Clinic

VA Mental Health Intensive Care Management

 

Philip Blumenshine, MD

UCLA/VA GLA Associate Program Director

VA General Outpatient Mental Health Clinic 


Elizabeth Bromley, MD, PhD

VA Mental Health Intensive Care Management Clinic

 

Ellen Charles, MD

VA Emergency Psychiatry and Inpatient

 

Conner Darby, MD

Program Director, Forensic Psychiatry

 

Emily Defraites, MD

Chief, VA Mental Health Intensive Case

 

Walter Dunn, MD, PhD

VA Mood Disorders Clinic & Interventional Psychiatry


Scott Fears, MD, PhD

Division Chief of GLA VA for Subspecialty Mental Health

VA Emergency Psychiatry


Denise Feil, MD

VA Movement Disorders Clinic & Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic

Geriatric Fellowship Program Director

 

Nathaniel Ginder, MD, PhD

VA Inpatient Psychiatry

VA Mood Disorders Clinic 

 

Rebecca Gladding, MD

VA Telepsychiatry

 

Linda Godleski, MD

DEO for Greater Los Angeles VA

 

Nicole Goodsmith, MD

VA Women’s’ Health


Jared Greenberg, MD 

UCLA/VA GLA Associate Program Director

VA Psychosis Clinic 


Barry Guze, MD

Associate Chief of Staff GLA VA & Chief of Psychiatry

VA Psychosis Clinic 

 

Jonathan Heldt, MD

VA General Outpatient Mental Health Clinic 

 

Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, MD, MSHS

VA Women's Mental Health  Clinic 

VA Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team Clinic

 

Muhammad Iqbal, MD

Associate Program Director, Addiction Psychiatry 


Bruce Kagan, MD, PhD

VA PTSD/Trauma Recovery Clinic

 

Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD

VA Psychosis Clinic 

  

 Andrew Kim, MD, JD

Chief, VA Inpatient Psychiatry 

VA Forensic Psychiatry Clinic

 

Michael MacIntyre, MD

VA Forensic Psychiatry Clinic

Larissa Mooney, MD

Program Director, Addiction Fellowship

 

Elizabeth Moore, MD

VA Research on Homeless Veterans

 

Isabella Morton, MD

VA Addiction Psychiatry

 

Erika Nurmi, MD, PhD

Director of VA Research Track

VA Anxiety Disorders Clinic


Smitta Patel, MD, MPH

VA Chief Innovations Officer

VA HIV Psychiatry Clinic

 

Pushpa Raja, MD

VA Quality Improvement

 

Hannah Roggenkamp, MD

VA Women’s Mental Health Clinic

 

Preetpal Sandhu, MD

VA Inpatient Psychiatry

 

Erin Samplin, MD

VA Urgent/Acute Care Psychiatry

 

Dean Sasaki, MD

VA Integrative Medicine Clinic

 

Kerri Schutz, PhD

Group Psychotherapy, VA Inpatient Service

 

Sonya Shadravan, MD

VA Mental Health Intensive Case Management

 

Andrew Shaner, MD

VA Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team Clinic

 

Silpa Somepalli, MD

VA Psychotherapy Program

VA Urgent/Acute Care Psychiatry Clinic 

 

Giovanna Sobrinho, MD

VA Short-term Intensive Dynamic Psychotherapy

 

Christina Soibatian, PhD

VA Inpatient Psychologist


Margaret Stuber, MD

UCLA/VA GLA Residency Program Director  

VA Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team Clinic

 

Patricia Tan, PhD

VA Family Therapy and Anxiety Disorders Clinics


Alessia Tognolini, MD

VA Geriatric Clinic

 

Hans von Walter, MD 

VA Geriatric Clinic

 

Robert Weinstock, MD

VA Forensic Psychiatry Clinic


Kenneth Wells, MD, MPH

VA Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team Clinic

 

David Willison, MD, PhD

VA Anxiety Disorders Clinic

 

Calvin Yang, MD, PhD

VA Primary Care Mental Health Integration Clinic


 Yvonne Yang, MD, PhD

Chief, VA Psychosis Clinic

 

Brandon Yarns, MD

VA Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic

 

Cassidy Zanko, MD

UCLA/VA GLA Residency Associate Program Director 

VA Women's Mental Health  Clinic