Dr. Thomas Anders
Mr. Norman Weinstein
Zaheer Ahmed
Julie Wu
Ana Holland
San Bui
Minda Lin
Frederick Su
Brian Garrett
Dr. Mandeep Bagga
Mandeep Bagga is a board-certified adult psychiatrist who graduated from East Carolina University in North Carolina. He is the program director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Kaweah Health is Visalia, California. He also serves as the Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences. He has a particular interest in technology, the business of medicine, empowering physicians, and education. He has research interests in utilizing new and emerging technologies to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce morbidity, improve patient wellbeing, while simultaneously reducing physician workload and burnout.
Dr. Blair Romer
Dr. Howard Terrell
Dr. Joseph Hall
Synthia Lay
Dr. Lay grew up in Los Angeles, CA and stayed in the area for college where she majored in Psychobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating with honors and taking a gap year working as a scribe and tutor, she pursued her medical degree at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is currently training as a PGY-2 at the Kaweah Health Psychiatry Residency Program. As one of Kaweah’s Academic Seniors, she is passionate about education and working with underserved populations. She plans on applying to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dr. Laura Kenkel
Dr. Craig Campbell
Dr. Sam Castro
Dr. Shannon Suo
Dr. Suo graduated from the UC Davis combined family medicine and psychiatry program in 2003. From 2003-2010, she worked as the medical director for Turning Point's Northgate Point Regional Support Team (RST), seeing patients and supervising residents in their outpatient continuity clinic. In 2010, Dr. Suo joined the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry faculty, working at the Sacramento County Primary Care Clinic Integrated Behavioral Health. In 2013, IBH began serving Medi-Cal patients under the Affordable Care Act and focuses on the integration of medical and psychiatric care. In addition to working with underserved patients, Dr. Suo's interests include teaching, care for minorities, women's career development , and the integration of medical and psychiatric care. She is current president of the Central California Psychiatric Society and serves on the board of directors for the Paul Hom Asian Clinic, a UC Davis medical student clinic. Allison Meisner
Teresita Amay
Dr. Rossano Bangasan
Dr. Bangasan is Board-certified in both Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry. Currently, he is the lone geriatric psychiatrist actively practicing in Kern County. He also has served as Medical Director of Kern County Mental Health (KCMH) for several years. Since the inception of UCLA-Kern Psychiatry Residency Program in 2005, Dr. Bangasan has been serving as an Assistant Professor manning primarily the Geriatric Psychiatry discipline, as its Course Coordinator and lecturer.
For the past close to 20 years, he sees adult patients in the outpatient clinic of Kern BHRS or Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, (new name of KCMH), and is the lead psychiatrist of WISE Clinic, the geriatric arm of Kern BHRS. This is where the psychiatry residents do their ACGME-required 1 month of geriatric rotation, where they see these elderly patients not only in the outpatient clinic but also in the contracted various nursing homes scattered in the community.
Dr. Bangasan has been UCLA-Kern Psychiatry Residency Program’s Grand Rounds convener for many years up to the present time. Likewise, for the past 10 plus years, he has served as the Team Captain of Kern County Psychiatrists team in its yearly participation in NAMI Walk. He has taken active role in CCPS being its Kern Chapter President once. Also, at CCPS, other than being its treasurer for several years, he has Chaired different committees like Early Career Psychiatry, Membership and Geriatric Psychiatry, some of which he continues to serve as such. Currently, he is one of the Councilors of CCPS Council. He remains to be an active member of the group known as Philippine Psychiatrist in America (PPA) where he once served as its treasurer for 4 consecutive years.
He was bestowed the honors of being Fellow of APA (FAPA) in 2008 and 5 years after, or in 2013, he was given the title of Distinguished Fellow of APA (DFAPA).
He is a practicing anesthesiologist in Manila, Philippines before he migrated here to the US in early 1990’s. He’s been an Assistant Professor way back then in his own medical school, Far Eastern University -Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, lecturing in Anatomy, Histology, Pharmacology and Anesthesia. He has done numerous researches in pain management. And while preparing for his USMLE exams, he at the same time is working as licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist in Bio-Clinical Laboratory in Torrance, California.
He likes reading, swimming, singing, walking, doing gardening in his backyard, and hanging out with his two daughters and wife on weekends.
Dr. Trevor Glenn
Yusuf Sherzad
Dr. Martin Leamon
Dr. Leamon is Medical Director for the VA Northern California Health Care System Addiction Treatment and Recovery Services and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He has over 50 publications in the areas of substance use disorders and medical education. He works extensively with veterans and non-veterans with prescription drug and other substance use disorders, including medication-assisted treatment for opioid and other use disorders. He actively teaches medical students and residents at the University of California, Davis, and is the California, Alaska and Hawaii Area Director for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.