Wendla 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 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 was married to Dr. Mark Ritchie in 1995. In
1999, she returned to California with her husband and children to be closer
to her extended family. Dr. Schwartz and Dr. Ritchie currently reside
in San Jose with their three children. Upon her return to California,
Dr. Schwartz immediately noticed a tremendous need for high quality comprehensive
private psychiatric care in the Bay Area. Parents especially seemed at
a loss for services that answered their most basic needs. The need for
someone to adequately explain their child's condition, to help them understand,
to guide them through the process of diagnostic evaluation and then to
provide support during the difficult days, weeks and months of stabilization.
A private comprehensive psychiatric services clinic was the answer and
Solutions Psychiatric Associates was born. Families and individuals alike
seemed genuinely relieved to find a place where they could come and feel
completely cared for, where their questions would be answered and their
concerns addressed. Just as Dr. Schwartz first envisioned, we at Solutions
continue to strive to provide such personal attention and comprehensive
care to all of our patients every day.
Mark 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 started his practice in May of 2001 and is currently
in private practice full-time.
Dr. Mark Ritchie is fully trained in adult psychiatry and enjoys working
with people motivated to improve their lives. 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.
He currently lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife and three Children.
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Teresa Rapposelli, Psy.D
Teresa Rapposelli is a clinical psychologist. She received her Masters
Degree in Clinical Psychology in 1984. In 1997, she went on to complete
her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional
Psychology and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester
in western New York. Dr. Rapposelli specializes in the treatment of all
types of psychological services for all ages. Her areas of special interest
include: the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, abuse, trauma, relationship
issues, and behavioral and mood disturbances in Children and adolescents.
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