Dr. Cichon is a passionate advocate for increased quality care standards as it relates to healthcare. She has impressive academic and clinical experience. She received her educational training from Washington University (St. Louis) and received undergraduate degrees in both Spanish and Biochemistry. In 2011 Dr. Cichon graduated from the University of Nevada School of Medicine and completed her Psychiatry and Neurology Residency and was board certified in 2015.
Dr. Cichon practiced rural medicine in West Virginia in underserved area, providing inpatient/outpatient/consultation and community mental health services. She was closely involved in monitoring of high risk pregnancies with comorbid psychiatric disorders and substance abuse treatment.
As someone raised in Las Vegas who went to the Meadows School, Dr. Cichon moved home after her father's death to be closer to family. Her current professional activities include a mix of inpatient and outpatient work in a variety of settings (ALF, SNF, rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient). She is a certified trauma specialist, ABIME, IAIME and CIR certified. She has a special interest in women’s mental health issues including hormonal changes as related to mood disorders, PTSD, and anxiety disorders. She recently became dual board certified in Brain Injury Medicine. As an expert, she offers neuropsychiatric testing for TBI, personality disorders, treatment plans for treatment resistant depression, IME/DME evaluations, case and record review.
EDUCATION
- 2007-2011 University of Nevada School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine
- 2001-2005 Washington University, BS Biochemistry, BA Spanish
POST GRADUATE TRAINING
- 2011-2012 Maricopa Integrated Health System, surgery residency, Internship
- 2012-2015 Jackson Memorial Health System/Miami VMAC/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Psychiatric Residency Training program
- Board certification Sept 2015, MOC completed 2017 Psychiatry and Neurology
ACTIVE LICENSURE
- 2017 State of Nevada renewed 17046 until 2021, with Nevada DEA
- 2017 Utah active 1/31/2022
- 10376858-8905 CS with Utah Dea until 8/31/2020
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feb 2018 – present Alliance Mental Health Specialists,
Adult Outpatient PHP at Montevista, Attending
Desert Regional Center : outpatient clinic
TMS services, outpatient,
Inpatient Psychiatric facility : Montevista covering attending (CD, gero psychiatric unit, Adult)
Inpatient units:
Desert Springs covering attending (gero psychiatric unit)
Harmon Hospital ( adult, addiction medicine, perinatal psychiatry)
Sunrise Hospital (consulting provider for ED consults)
Henderson Hospital
Reno Behavioral Health (telepsychiatry, addiction, teens, adults)
Ignite teen treatment attending psychiatrist (closed Jan 2019)
SNF : Horizon health and rehab center, North Las Vegas Cares Center, Spanish Hills health and wellness center, Total Life Care and Rehabilitation center, Wingfield Hills (telepsychiatry), Horizon Specialty, Kindred
July 2017- Jan 2018
Telepsychiatry with Strive Behavioral Health and TMS (Provo, Utah)
Mountainview and St. Mark’s UT psychiatrist (telepsychiatry) with VMS,
Solutions Recovery, LLC (a division of American Addiction Centers)
June 2015- July 2017 Appalachian Psychiatric Services
Inpatient privileges : Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley ARH
FMRS CMHC
Outpatient clinic
DCFS testimony and evaluations for fitness and placement (adults and juveniles)
During Residency (moonlighting)
Ft. Lauderdale Hospital – now closed
Dade Family Counseling
FIU student health evaluations, ADHD testing and treatment
APPOINTMENTS/academic
2015 WVSOM osteopathic program, Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry
2015 LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Assistant clinical professor of
psychiatry
2006-2007 Washington University School of Medicine, post graduate researcher, Infectious
disease department
2004 Washington University, teaching assistant, Spanish language level 1-2
AWARDS
William J. Harrington International student education program, best resident presentation (to visiting foreign medical students)
SEPD grant for International Congress on Dual Pathology : Addictions and Mental Disorders, Barcelona, Spain 2013 : abstract and poster presented.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
National Eating Disorders association
NAMI
SNAMHS
OTHER PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Fluent in Spanish/ ASL , RYT Yoga Alliance; Pilates Intermind/Stott certification
TMS training (neurostar and magventure), ECT training,
Meditech2.0 autotext and coding, Cerner, Matrixcare, HCS, Epic training completed
