About Dr. Duennebier
About
I am an adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist providing psychiatric care for individuals, families, and couples in both my current home of Washington, and my childhood home of Hawai’i. I have over 15 years of experience in the mental-health field beginning with research, but ultimately centering on supporting my community through clinical work and teaching.
Most of my life has been spent on Oahu, Hawai’i. Over recent years however, my family and I have been fostering a growing passion for the Pacific North West, and we have begun our next chapter of our journey here in Seattle.
Feel free to read about my philosophy and approach and the services I provide, here.
Credentials and experience
- I hold active medical licenses in the states of Washington and Hawai’i.
- I am board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
- I am an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
I earned my medical doctorate at the University of Hawai’i, John A. Burns School of Medicine. I continued my residency training there in psychiatry, with further specialization in child and adolescent psychiatry while holding the chief resident position. Since then I have focused my time on my outpatient practice; now including Washington state. I also serve as a mental health consultant for the community organization, Kids in Concert.
Past experiences include the Walter F. Char, M.D. and Jack McDermott awards in psychiatry leadership, co-authorship in the book Problem Based Behavioral Science and Psychiatry, as well as multiple research publications in journals such as Gene, and presentations at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meetings. I have held teaching roles for medical students and residents and public speaking for the community.
In a distant life I received my undergraduate degree in Physics and Astronomy from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, and held internships at NASA (luckily, this was before exoplanets were discovered otherwise it would have been really hard to leave the field).