Conrado Sevilla, M.D., DFAPA

Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Dr. Sevilla is the Psychiatry department chairman and the Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency training at Mission Community Hospital. He oversees the residents, faculty, administration, and medical students. Dr. Sevilla is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Bio-behavioral Sciences at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and previously was the Medical Director of the Olive View Urgent Care/ Crisis Stabilization Unit. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the recipient of numerous awards.

Gabriela V. Obrocea M.D., Ph.D.

Core Faculty, Director of Research and Chair of Academic Affairs

Dr. Obrocea is a board-certified specialist in psychiatry with fellowship training in neuro-psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry with emphasis in the area of cyclic mood disorders. Dr. Obrocea obtained her MD degree in 1986 from the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy – Faculty of General Medicine, Bucharest, Romania, with academic distinction. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Ottawa, School of Graduate Studies and Research in 1998. Dr Obrocea has published numerous manuscripts on cyclic mood disorders and has been the recipient of multiple awards from the State Department of Mental Health for excellence of care on clinical research to mentoring psychiatry residents. As the recipient of numerous awards for her distinguished work in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Obrocea also serves as a tenured faculty member in the Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences department at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Jason Lee, M.D.

Core Faculty, Psychiatry

Dr. Lee received his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. He is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with a passion to providing personalized care for the older adult population and he specializes in the areas of behavioral management of neurocognitive disorders and neuromodulation. He also works with previously untreated adult ADHD patients and has experience in both diagnosis and treatment management.

Alex Sahba, M.D., Q.M.E.

Core Faculty, Psychiatry

Dr. Alex Sahba is double board-certified in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He completed his psychiatry residency at Louisiana State University in 2005, followed by a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at UCLA.

Dr. Sahba has over 18 years of experience serving at an 800-bed psychiatric state hospital, where he provided patient care and held key leadership positions, including Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Medical Executive Committee. He has also served as an attending psychiatrist at UCLA Olive View Medical Center, where he supervised and mentored psychiatry residents.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Sahba serves as a California Medical Board Expert Examiner, providing expert opinions on the quality of care provided by other psychiatrists and offering testimony in court. He is also a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME).

Rafik Sidrak, M.D.

Core Faculty, Psychiatry

Dr. Sidrak is board certified in Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry. He has more than 3 decades experience in the clinical practice of psychiatry. He has delivered evidence-based treatment of various psychiatric diagnoses at the inpatient, subacute and outpatient levels of care. He has extensive experience in community-based psychiatry. He has provided care to high-risk teens and young adults with special needs. He has lengthy experience testifying in court and dealing with the legal aspects of the practice of psychiatry. He has 15-year experience in administrative psychiatry and held leadership positions in the health insurance industry. He has special interest in the ethics and humanistic aspects of practice of psychiatry.

Eugene Pahk, M.D.

Core Faculty, Neurology

Dr. Eugene Pahk is a Los Angeles County native. He graduated cum laude with B.S. in Biology at the University of California, San Diego. After spending time working in the fields of biotechnology and electronic healthcare software, he graduated from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel, one of the top technical institutes in the world. He then went on to complete his residency in Neurology at Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York before returning to California. Dr. Pahk has trained at a multitude of centers across the United States and has extensive training in the management of dementia, stroke, migraines, headaches, and other neurologic conditions and is currently a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

Barbara Ackerman, BSN, RN, PhD.

Core Faculty, Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Ackerman earned a BSN from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a PhD from California School of Professional Psychology – Fresno. She completed the Behavior Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship with STFM in 2014 and the Leadership Fellowship with the California Health Care Foundation at UCSF in 2020. A teacher in Family Medicine since 2011, Dr. Ackerman enjoys her various roles as educator, clinician, administrator, and researcher. Her professional interests include serving the underserved and providing whole person (integrated) health care. Outside of work, she enjoys English mysteries and jazz.