Yehonatan Shilo, MD is a psychiatrist at PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, WA.
He spends ⅔ of his time in outpatient, and ⅓ of his time doing hospital work and consultations in the ED as well as on the medical/surgical floors.
This is his first job as an attending, after a long international journey in which he was exposed as a student, intern and resident to psychiatric care and primary care in Italy, Israel and now, the USA.
Dr. Shilo’s interest in collaborative/integrated care has increased since he started practicing in a more rural/underserved area, especially during the COVID 19 pandemic. The limited access to care has made first presentations more clinically severe and has unnecessarily prolonged suffering.
He hopes to gain tools that will allow him to help more people in an efficient and safe way.
Dr. Shilo believes that in today’s reality in which psychiatric care is constantly lacking in availability and the prevalence of mental health problems only keeps rising, collaborative/integrated care will become more prevalent and being part of the model will become the reality for a lot of psychiatrists.