Jocelyn Engler, PharmD, PA-C is a psychiatric PA-C with an extensive background in pharmacotherapeutics. She graduated from the UW School of Pharmacy and MEDEX in 2016. She has been working as a pharmacist in compounding pharmacy since 2017. In addition to compounding, Dr. Engler has been working in community psychiatry for 4 years. She worked for a community-based private practice in Issaquah, WA, Family Psychiatry, treating school-aged and adolescent children, as well as adults. Since 2021, she works for Sound Health as a psychiatric PA-C treating children and adults with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD). Sound Health is a nonprofit organization providing effective and innovative healthcare for the underserved in the community. Sound Health incorporates counseling, addiction treatment, mental health services for children, family oriented services, psychiatric services, and primary care.
Many of the individuals Dr. Engler treats are minimally verbal or non-verbal with a limited internal state; therefore, it is especially important to coordinate care with other medical specialties for an individual who is deviating from their baseline. Through participation in this program, she hopes to gain a better understanding of how to incorporate effective procedures to improve coordinated care amongst different specialties and Sound Health. She is hopeful streamlined coordination amongst medical specialties will improve patient outcomes. In five years, she hopes Collaborative Care/integrated care will be a standard of practice with all medical institutions including large healthcare systems, private practices, and nonprofit community-based clinics.