Chipepo Mugala is a graduate of UW Medex Physician Assistant Program 2015. She has spent the last 7 years splitting her time between her two passions, acute care medicine in Urgent Care Settings and Behavioral Medicine. Since 2017, Chipepo has been serving as a psychiatric prescriber in SOUND’s Community Network Program (CNP) serving individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (ID and DD) living in King County. SOUND is a nonprofit community mental health provider serving individuals with mental and substance use disorders. She was recruited to SOUND’s CNP program by her mentor, Dale Sanderson PA-C recently retired psychiatric prescriber from CNP program, whom she met when she was a medical case manager working with ID clients supported by Alpha Supported living Services, a community based supported living agency for IDD clients.