Andrei Novac

Andrei Novac, Medical Doctor

MD; Psychiatrist
License # A39819

Contact Information:

400 Newport Center Drive
Suite 309
Newport Beach , CA
United States 92660

TEL: 949-760-9133

E-mail: anovacmd@gmail.com
Web: andreinovacmd.com

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Languages spoken: English

Practice Information:

Areas of Practice: Bipolar Disorder; Grief and Loss; Depression and Mood Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Trauma and PTSD
Years in Practice: 20 or more
Populations Served: Adults; Testing/Evaluation/Assessment

Bio/Background:

Dr. Andrei Novac is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Traumatic Stress Program. He is also an Associate member at the NCP in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Carol Davila School of Medicine in his native Bucharest, Romania in 1978. After a post-MD three year internship in Pediatrics, he immigrated to the US and completed his internship and psychiatric residency and research fellowship at UC Irvine in 1986. He has written and published on man-made traumatic stress and its impact on brain biology, depressive disorders and their subtypes, Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in families of Holocaust survivors, Cognitive Bias and youth violence, resiliency and the brain/mind functional unit. He is the author of articles, research studies, commentaries, book reviews, two behavioral rating scales and has lectured at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Novac completed a psychoanalytic track during his residency at UC Irvine and was trained at UCLA in the Tavistock group model. Dr. Novac is a board-certified psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the APA. He is the past chair of the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Special Study Group at the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies and is a member of the College of Research Fellows of APsaA. More recently, Dr. Novac was elected to the American College of Psychiatrists.

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