Dr. Levander is a board certified psychiatrist and a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Levander teaches senior psychiatric resident physicians at the Mood Disorders Clinic at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior at UCLA and Harbor UCLA Medical Center. In private practice Dr. Levander is experienced in the evaluation and treatment of many areas of adult psychiatric problems such as major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and chemical dependency.
Dr. Levander is the only certified clinician in Southern California who uses Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP). He lectures and trains other health care professionals about this research-validated method of treatment for the chronically depressed. He is also trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). He also is certified to treat patients using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Dr. Levander went to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and has a master of public health from UC Berkeley. After graduation, he trained as a resident at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. Dr. Levander subsequently pursued an additional three years of fellowship training in mood and bipolar disorders at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and Institute. For over 15 years, Dr. Levander treated veterans and trained resident physicians at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital.
Dr. Levander is also fluent in Spanish.
