Megan O'Brien

- Provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment to adults experiencing severe psychiatric distress in partial-hospitalization program, psychiatric inpatient unit, and chemical dependency unit.

- Manage own caseload, including intakes, ongoing treatment, and disposition decisions. Facilitated pharmacological management of complex cases involving multiple medications or comorbidities requiring close monitoring.

- Served as preceptor to UCSF nurse practitioner students.

- Provide ongoing psychiatric care to vulnerable Transitional Age Youth and their families as part of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in Alameda County.

- Provide medication management and therapy to youth recently diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), substance use disorders, or other comorbid illness in the community

- Serve as the primary psychiatric provider on the team and as a clinical resource and collaborator with all case managers, therapists, and RNs.

- Provide therapeutic interventions and pharmacologic treatment to individuals on complex psychotropic medications, and/or with comorbid substance use disorders, eating disorders, medical problems, and developmental disabilities.

- Provide acute stabilization to adults and children in psychiatric crises while maintaining safety.

- Manage all clinical scenarios including admissions, evaluations, emergencies, transfers from other health facilities, and dispositions independently with physician support by phone.

- Lead and guide all clinical support staff.

- Provide psychiatric evaluation and pharmacotherapy to patients recovering from addiction, including patients in acute detox and day treatment. Part-time.

• Provide RN care to patients and children in psychiatric crises, including triaging incoming patients, and maintaining the health of all patients on the unit. Part-time.
• Work with a team to place psychiatric holds as well as hospitalize patients when necessary.

• Provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to underserved teenagers and adults using both psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic interventions. Full-time.
• Specialized experience in a geriatric setting (OverSixty clinic) and Spanish-speaking populations (Brookside San Pablo clinic); also functioned as in-house consult for PCPs.