User:Drwaugh/Martin Waugh, physician

Martin Earl Waugh is trained as an osteopathic Physician, and Surgeon, obtaining his medical degree from the Oklahoma State University, the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in 1987. After completing a rotating general internship in Toledo, Ohio, as well as active duty Army Rotations at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; Madigan Army Medical Center at Tacoma, Washington, William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, TX. He then went to Yale University to complete a Substance Abuse Fellowship 1988-1991, and completed a psychiatric residency at the Yale School of Medicine, 1991-1994. He learned the utility of the functional brain scans (SPECT) and (fMRI) while at Yale, and translated this into published articles in research, and clinical applications through the Amen Clinic Medical Group. He recently helped Congressman Patrick Kennedy, D-Rhode Island, with the passage of the Mental Health Parity Bill, and the Health Care Reform Act passed in 2010. He lives with his wife in Washington D.C. and continues to teach, counsel, get function brain scans at the Amen Clinic in Reston, VA, and serves as the Federal Medical Advisor for A Safe Haven, a homelessness comprehensive approach based in Chicago, Ill. who has helped over 32,000 people obtain housing and healthcare over the last 16 yrs, and currently is focused on reducing Chicago's homeless veterans.