Anne Ross
Encinitas,CA
Summary
PhD in Clinical Psychology, licensed Physician Assistant Psychiatric medication prescriber. Patient advocate with psychopharmacological expertise, with 20 years of experience in treating complex behavioral health issues of all ages and substance abuse including use of MAT/opioid use disorders. Have worked independently, as well as part of a multidisciplinary team in high stress environments. Licensed in the states of California, Pennsylvania, New York and Minnesota.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Advance Practice Provider (Psychiatry)
Neighborhood Healthcare
01.2019 - Current
- Behavioral Health Provider (APP)
- Federal Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to provide outpatient psychotropic stabilizing medications, therapeutic support to clients
- Commitment to provide care to adolescent, adult and geriatric population who suffer from multiple of psychiatric and cognitive disorders
- Telepsychiatry to improve access to behavioral healthcare
- Use of interpreters to conduct assessments in multiple languages
- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and X waivered in combination with behavioral therapy and psychiatric medication to treat substance abuse disorders.
Advanced Practice Provider (Psychiatry)
Landmark Health
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Behavioral Health Provider
- Provide psychiatric assessments for chronic complex medical patients and dual diagnosis
- Provide evaluations through house calls
- Provide evaluations and medication management and treatment for patient's presenting addiction, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar depression, psychosis, memory and aging, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, OCD, PTSD and other behavioral health issues
- Consult and communicate findings with community providers and primary care physicians to ensure integrated care that is geared towards positive outcomes.
Advanced Practice Provider-Psychiatry
Brooke Glen Behavioral Health
01.2008 - 01.2018
- Clinical services
- Working Closely with the medical director of psychiatry to manage and provide comprehensive care for a 146-bed acute care hospital that serves the needs of adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations
- Providing initial emergency assessment, diagnosing, crisis intervention, and treatment plans
- Review and interpret laboratory tests
- Plan of care to achieve optimal patient outcomes to meet needs of everyone throughout hospitalization
- Educating consumers regarding health conditions
- Identifying techniques to improve compliancy
- Provide on call hospital services
- Provide liaison services for colleagues, physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, individuals and their families
- Direct and supervise students, teach psychiatric evaluations, interventions and techniques for handling acute and chronic psychiatric conditions
- Staff training and development, and public presentations.
Advanced Practice Provider- Psychiatry
UHS
01.2007 - 01.2008
- UHS owned In- patient and out-patient partial psychiatric facility providing comprehensive care for acute psychiatric conditions, including, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and substance abuse
- Conduct history and physical examinations
- Provide treatment for children, adolescents, adults and older adults
- Provide treatment including pharmacological and psychological counseling, stress management for acute and chronic behavioral health issues.
Advanced Practice Provider
The Floating Hospital
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Provides medical and psychiatric services to multiple clinics located in various homeless shelters throughout New York City
- Managed complex medical and psychiatric cases by providing crisis intervention, initial assessments, lab work, interpretation of work up, care planning, treatment, and follow up support services for a marginalized population
- Prescribed, regulated and monitored patients with complex medication regimens
- Conducted individual and group therapy
- Managed risk assessment by providing awareness and training to staff to implement suicide prevention policy
- Provided workshops to educate individuals in preventative medicine, and lifestyle changes leading to improved health outcomes
- Focused on improving health outcomes by partnering with local care providers and community services to implement continuity of care to the consumer.
Advanced Practice Provider
Kessler Institute For Rehabilitation Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Provided mental health services for people who suffered stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions
- Evaluated complex cases with neuropsychological assessments, testing and interpretation to help guide decision making for appropriate treatment
- Worked with an interdisciplinary team
- Developed a Cognitive amputation rehabilitation program to build the cognitive, behavioral and emotional skills with emphasis to return to the community.
Advanced Practice Provider
Bellevue Hospital
01.2001 - 01.2003
- Worked with consult and liaison services to provide crisis intervention treatment for behavioral symptoms for patients with co-occurring medical conditions
- Provided formulation of the problems, management and implementation of treatment of individual's presenting with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Counselor
CIS Counseling Center
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Provided counseling, referral, and outreach services for individuals experience anxiety, depression, PTSD, and increased substance abuse following 9/11
- This was a multidisciplinary effort funded by Project Liberty.
Advanced Practice Provider
Northern Home for Children
01.1998 - 01.2000
- All boy's intensive residential facility for male adolescents who struggled with mental health problems and/or the use of co-occurring substance use
- Provided evaluation and assessments and treatment
- Helped coordinate individualized programs.
Advanced Practice Provider-Gen Medicine
Campus Medical Center
01.1996 - 01.1999
- Provided medical assessment, treatment, procedures and follow up series for patients with diverse medical conditions
- Managed a diverse caseload including women's health, pain management, diabetes, heart disease, psychiatric disorders, arthritis, thyroid disorders, GI disorders and other common outpatient medical conditions
- Prescribed, regulated and monitored patient compliance
- Provided education, preventative medicine alternatives, and lifestyle changes leading to improved health.
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Albert Einstein Medical Center
01.1994 - 01.1996
- Part of a multidisciplinary team to coordinate research and outcomes in the behavioral, medical and psychological complications of various genetic disorders
- Provide assistance and education to family members of individuals who might be at risk for an inherited disease
- Initial history and physicals, appropriate diagnostic testing
- Interpretation of labs and diagnostic testing
- Provide with follow-up care, lifestyle changes and help with the assistance of important health related decisions.
Education
MA, and PhD - Clinical Psychology
Fielding Graduate University
01.2007
BS and graduate - PA-C
George Washington University Physician Assistant graduate
01.1994
BA - Psychology
Florida International University
01.1988
Skills
- Ability to Assess, diagnose and treat clients suffering from major mental disorders such as depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, PTSD, substance abuse anxiety disorders using evidence-based medicine and therapy
- Providing medication management as well as therapy to adolescents, adults, geriatrics, and special need populations
- Initiate and develop group therapy sessions
- The ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent communication skills combined with empathy and compassion
- Experience working with Electronic Medical Records and technology
- Extensive experience using telepsychiatry to improve access to care
- Assess patients with multiple medical issues and identify potential pharmacological interactions
Certification
- National Committee of Certification for Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- Currently licensed in the state of Pennsylvania, and New York, and California
- NPI and DEA number, X waivered
Affiliations
- American Academy of Physician Assistants
- American Psychological Association
- California Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA)
- American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
- New York State Society Physician Assistants
- Pennsylvania Academy of Physician Assistants
- American Psychological Association division of Health Psychology (Division 38)
- American Psychological Association of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse (Division 28)
Timeline
Advance Practice Provider (Psychiatry)
Neighborhood Healthcare
01.2019 - Current
Advanced Practice Provider (Psychiatry)
Landmark Health
01.2018 - 01.2019
Advanced Practice Provider-Psychiatry
Brooke Glen Behavioral Health
01.2008 - 01.2018
Advanced Practice Provider- Psychiatry
UHS
01.2007 - 01.2008
Advanced Practice Provider
The Floating Hospital
01.2005 - 01.2007
Advanced Practice Provider
Kessler Institute For Rehabilitation Inc.
01.2003 - 01.2005
Advanced Practice Provider
Bellevue Hospital
01.2001 - 01.2003
Counselor
CIS Counseling Center
01.2001 - 01.2002
Advanced Practice Provider
Northern Home for Children
01.1998 - 01.2000
Advanced Practice Provider-Gen Medicine
Campus Medical Center
01.1996 - 01.1999
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Albert Einstein Medical Center
01.1994 - 01.1996
MA, and PhD - Clinical Psychology
Fielding Graduate University
BS and graduate - PA-C
George Washington University Physician Assistant graduate
BA - Psychology
Florida International University