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Our Doctors
Mark A. Ritchie, MD
Dr. Mark Ritchie was born and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated from medical school at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1988, served as Chief Resident and completed residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 1992. Following training he was appointed to the faculty at UCLA School of Medicine, served as Medical Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Harbor-UCLA and spent time seeing adults as well as teaching residents and interns in psychiatry from 1992 through 1994. After a move back to New Orleans and appointment to the faculty at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Dr. Ritchie became an Inpatient Ward Director at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Medical Director of the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic and Director of Medical Student Education from 1994 through 1998. While there, he participated in clinical psychopharmacology trials as an investigator, published several research papers, developed a clinic for the Serious and Persistently Mentally Ill, served as a board examiner and received awards as the Outstanding Faculty Member and Medical Student Educator. In 1998 Dr. Ritchie accepted a position as Assistant Medical Director of the DePaul-Tulane Behavioral Health Center and Assistant Medical Director of the Electroconvulsive Therapy Program. He was also appointed to the clinical faculty at Tulane University Medical School. While there he completed a visiting fellowship at Duke University School of Medicine in Electroconvulsive Therapy. At that time Dr. Ritchie had begun to realize how much time his career was taking him away from his family. He then returned to California in 1999 to be closer to his friends and wife's extended family. From December of 1999 until December 2001 Dr. Ritchie worked at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara with the Department of Psychiatry. He currently holds a position as Senior Supervising Psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Hospital as well as conducting private practice in Los Gatos
Dr. Mark Ritchie is Board Certified in adult psychiatry and recognized nationally as a Master Psychopharmacologist. He specializes in the use of medications to treat psychiatric illnesses and has always worked closely with therapists, primary care physicians and other specialists. His areas of special interest include the psychopharmacology of mood and anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder as well as schizophrenia in adults. Dr. Ritchie is Board Certified and an active member of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Dr. Mark Ritchie is Board Certified in adult psychiatry and recognized nationally as a Master Psychopharmacologist. He specializes in the use of medications to treat psychiatric illnesses and has always worked closely with therapists, primary care physicians and other specialists. His areas of special interest include the psychopharmacology of mood and anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder as well as schizophrenia in adults. Dr. Ritchie is Board Certified and an active member of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Wendla A. Schwartz, MD
Dr. Schwartz was born in Berkeley, California and was raised in both the Bay Area and Southern California. She completed her undergraduate degree in biochemistry at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo and then attended medical school at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Upon completion of her medical degree in 1990, Dr. Schwartz attended medical internship and general psychiatric residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center followed by completion of fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at LSU in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Schwartz was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in January 1996. Following training Dr. Schwartz was appointed to the clinical faculty at Tulane Medical Center and acted as Medical Director of a large community mental health clinic from 1996 through 1999. During her tenure as Medical Director and on faculty at Tulane, Dr. Schwartz had the opportunity to teach residents and interns as well as evaluate and treat thousands of children and adults with a vast array of psychiatric illnesses. She focused much of her time on treating children and adolescents and developed special expertise in the psychopharmacological treatment of mood and anxiety disorders of children. Dr Schwartz is a Board Certified and recertified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a member in good standing of both APA and the AMA and a lifetime member of the American Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry.