Juan Alanis

Talented medical professional offering strong history of success in meeting patient needs by leveraging healthcare expertise to diagnose and treat conditions. Thrived at Customs and Border Protection during the fast pace influx of immigrants during COVID-19 pandemic. Hardworking with excellent bedside manner. Former Department of Veterans Affairs employee with over 10 years of experience servicing veterans with disabilities, providing rehabilitation services, counseling services, reviewing and developing compensation and pension claims, and bringing 4 years of healthcare experience as a physician assistant, including general family medicine and psychiatric care. 

As a psychiatry resident in the consultation liaison psychiatry team was able to:

• Perform comprehensive chart review from all available sources, including the patient, paper and electronic

chart (including physician's notes, nursing staff notes, social work notes, other staff member notes,

medication administration records), hospital staff, and family or friends of the patient to ascertain all required

information related to a patient's family history, personal history, substance history, premorbid personality,

allergies, past medical history, current medications, review of systems, detailed past psychiatric history,

detailed history of present illness (including history of present medical illness), and mental status

examination, for proper evaluation and prompt reply verbally and in writing to the consulting service the

clinical impression of the patient as well as specific treatment recommendations and guidelines.

clinical impression of the patient as well as specific treatment recommendations and guidelines.

• Accurately and fully document all elements described above on the patient's chart

• Comprehensively assess self-injury risk, risk of injury to others, dangerousness and appropriate use of

constant observation

• Accurately assess patients for capacity to make medical decisions (“competency”) in medically ill patients

• Perform routine follow up of already evaluated patients, monitor the patient's course during hospitalization

and provide continuing input (both pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic) as needed to the patient and

treating team

• Work as a valued member of a multidisciplinary staff to maximize the care of complex medically ill patients

and demonstrate willingness to help other members of the team and other departments

• Provide appropriate direction to consulting services regarding management of dangerous, agitated and/or

psychotic patients who are treated on general hospital units

• Provided supervision and teaching to medical students and physician assistant students on the CL service

• Understand the use of psychotropic medications and ECT in medical and surgical patients and appreciate

physiologic effects, contraindications, drug interactions, and dosing concerns

• Effectively advise medical and surgical teams on appropriate use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines in

agitated patients

• Understand the medications that have psychiatric symptoms as side effects

• Understand the differences between somatization disorder, conversion disorder, factitious disorder and

malingering

1. Doctor of Medical Science with emphasis in psychiatry 12/2021 Rocky Mountain University Provo, UT
2. Physician Assistant Psychiatry Resident 07/2019 Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center 2002 HolcombeHouston, TX 77030
3. Masters Physician Assistant 12/2017 University of Texas RGV Edinburg, TX