Experience highlights
Lead Faculty - University of Phoenix, 2001 - Present 
  • Professor for both undergraduate and graduate courses
  • Teach both on-ground and on-line
  • Developed curriculum for Psychopharmacology
  • Function as the Practicum Area Chair for the Marriage and Family Therapist students as well as the Head Area Chair for the School of Health and Human Services
  • Faculty Member of the Year 2004 for the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Serve on the Governance Board for the School of Health and Human Services
Director of SHARPER FUTURE, San Diego  2002 - 2007
  • Opened clinic in San Diego for the treatment of adult sex offenders
  • Established contracts with San Diego County Probation
  • Implemented internship and training program with graduate schools across the country. 
  • Administrative responsibilities included managing the day to day operations of the clinic within budget, developing protocols and coordinating research.
  • Clinical responsibilities included the supervision of staff, interns, and providing direct services with patients through assessment, individual and group intakes, running therapy groups and administering presentence psychological evaluations.   

Attorney: California License #190866, 1997 - Present

  • Provide legal consultation for SHARPER FUTURE on legal and ethical issues
  • Provide legal consultation to the Trauma Research Institute regarding ethical issues related to research. 
  • Have represented hospital in Administrative Law Judge Hearing regarding medical necessity of treatment
  • Past work as a family law attorney
Psychologist, California License #PSY14738, 1999 - Present
  • Opened private practice in 1999
  • Specialization in Forensic Psychology and violent and sexual offender evaluation. 
  • Contracted by the California Department of Mental Health to conduct Sexually Violent Predator evaluations and provide expert witness testimony in civil commitment trials.
  • Clinical work is with children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, and doing psychological evaluations.
Senior Manager, University Community Medical Center - 2002
  • Program Director - Outpatient Psychiatric Services 
  • Provided leadership to an Outpatient Psychiatric Program
  • Developed and added a Partial Hospitalization Program to the services at the hospital
  • Grew the census from 60 to over 100 patients. 
  • Provided oversight for the day to day program activities and managed the evaluation of all staff
  • Coordinated care between psychiatrists, nurses, clinical staff, and patients
Clinical Director: Paradise Valley/Bayview Hospital, 1999-2002
  • Coordinated treatment between psychiatrists, nurses, clinicians and patients
  • Managed of the day to day operations of a 120 patient Outpatient hospitalization facility and Partial Hospitalization Program
  • Responsibilities included the assessment of all admissions to the program, coordination of all discharges, running daily treatment team meetings and the coordination of treatment
  • Responsible for daily clinical supervision, scheduling, program development, management of patient emergencies and assessments including 5150 evaluations as well as frequent reports and follow-up to hospital administration. 
  • Was responsible for periodic documentation review as well as utilization review to insure proper payment on patients treatment which was reasonable and medically necessary. 
  • Developed and provided legal representation to the hospital in Court at the Administrative Law Judge level.

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