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Kai Macdonald

Kai Macdonald MD

Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
San Diego, California, United States of America

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Kai MacDonald, MD, graduated from the University of Minnesota medical school and now practices in San Diego. His practice life has reflected his broad, eclectic interests, and in the past has included being board-certified in family practice, and acting as a teaching physician on consult-liaison inpatient hospital psychiatry, emergency room, and inpatient psychiatric units. Residents have voted him as a top teacher in years past. Based on his interest in addiction, Dr. MacDonald is the medical director for a local outpatient substance abuse program and has actively worked with patients in recovery for years. Additionally, in collaboration with several colleagues.

Dr. MacDonald designed and teaches a quarterly remediation course for practicing physicians referred due to boundary violations; this course has been recognized as a national gold standard by the medical board. In 2009, he was voted by his peers as one of the top psychiatrists in San Diego. Though he identifies himself primarily as a front-line clinician, Dr. MacDonald has participated as a clinical investigator in dozens of pharmaceutical trials in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and agitation. More recently, a pointed interest in social neuroscience and attachment led to authoring several ongoing studies on the activity of oxytocin, a uniquely social neuropeptide. Dr. MacDonald has published peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics, including dissociation and dissociative amnesia, ADHD, interoception, agitation, eye contact, bipolar disorder, and oxytocin. Over the last decade.
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