Paul Sargent, M.D.

Dr. Sargent received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and completed his specialty training in Psychiatry at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He has served in multiple operational commands to include work as a Flight Surgeon for Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-267 and then deployment to Iraq in 2009 as the staff psychiatrist for 2nd Medical Battalion, USMC, Camp Al Taqqadum. In that position, he was the sole military psychiatrist in Al Anbar province, and spearheaded cognitive behavioral insomnia treatment programs for deployed personnel. Upon return, he founded the Overcoming Adversity and Stress Injury Support program (OASIS), a residential treatment program for complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Sargent was then selected by name as the first psychiatrist assigned within Naval Special Warfare and oversaw the delivery of mental health care for all West Coast SEALs and support staff. Following that assignment, he completed additional board certification in Brain Injury Medicine and was appointed as the Medical Director of the Intrepid Spirit Center at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. There he led an interdisciplinary team of 50 health care professionals providing cutting edge TBI care to a population of 42,000 active-duty personnel. In his final Navy assignment as Psychiatrist at OPNAV N17 he advised on psychological resilience policy, as well as program design/ implementation for Navy-wide psychological skills initiatives and served as one of the principal authors of the Navy’s Mental Health Playbook. Since leaving the Navy, he has maintained a focused clinical practice while working as a strategic advisor to design and implement psychological resilience programs for large organizations. He has co-authored over 20 publications in peer reviewed journals and enjoys his work with professionals and teams who are interested in learning to persevere, adapt, and grow through the challenges they face.

Paul is currently the CEO and Medical Director of Peak Health Services and can be reached through the website at https://peakhealthservice.com/

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