Dr. Padla was born in New Jersey and attended school there through college where he received his Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University. After this, he received a Master’s Degree at Virginia Tech before attending medical school at Rutger’s Medical School, Newark, New Jersey. He then did his psychiatric residency training at the prestigious Institute of Living in Hartford Connecticut. During his years of private practice he has specialized in general psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, pain management and obesity medicine. He has trained physician’s assistants while being an adjunct professor in Psychiatry at Western Michigan University. He retired in 2017 after being Chief of Psychiatry at Doctor’s Hospitals of Indiana. After a brief retirement of six months, he was lured out of retirement and became the psychiatrist at the Sacramento Native American Health Center where he currently still works. Dennis Padla, MD
 
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Experience- BS with Honors 1981 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences- part of Rutgers University
MS 1983 Virginia Tech- Full Tuition Scholarship through Graduate Research Assistantship
MD- 1988 Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Psychiatry Residency 1992- Institute of Living
Center for Psychiatry 1992-2018- CEO and Medical Director
Neuropsychiatric Hospitals- Psychiatrist in Chief 2013-2016
Sacramento Native American Health Center 2018-2023- Psychiatrist-in-Charge
Advanced Psychiatry Associates 2018-present - Psychiatrist
Behavioral Care Solutions 2012-present - Assistant Psychiatry Director
 
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California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Title: MD Psychiatrist- focus Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry