Dmitri Sivtsov, M.D.
Psychiatry
Offices: Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego
Dmitri Sivtsov, M.D., received his M.D. from the St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, Russia in 1995. Following his residency at the Bekhterev Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in St. Petersburg, he became a staff physician in the Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at the institute. In 2001, he began an externship in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry in the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California at San Diego. He then moved to do an internship in psychiatry at the Harvard South Shore Residency Training Program. In 2003, he began his residency in psychiatry at the UCLA/San Fernando Valley Residency Training Program. He was chief resident from 2005-2006. In those same years, he was a staff physician in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. In 2006, he became Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Dr. Sivtsov lives in the San Diego area and enjoys cars and travel. His father, Aleksander Sivtsov, M.D., is an eminent psychiatrist in St. Petersburg.
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Areas of expertise
Adult and adolescent psychiatry.
Substance abuse and addictions.
QME evaluations and medical legal matters.
Evaluations to participate in weight loss programs, cosmetic surgical procedures and child adoption.
Professional experience
8/2006-present Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine.
9/2005-7/2006 Staff Physician, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA-Olive View Medical Center
7/1997-1/1999 Staff Physician, Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, The Bekhterev Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Education
7/2005-6/2006 Chief Resident. Chemical Dependence Treatment Program. University of California at Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley Residency Training Program
7/2003-6/2006 Residency in psychiatry. University of California at Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley Residency Training Program.
7/2002-6/2003 Internship in psychiatry. Harvard South Shore Residency Training Program
4-5/2001 Externship in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego
7/1995-6/1997 Residency in psychiatry. The Bekhterev Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia
9/1989-6/1995 MD granted. St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, Russia