About Anna Pasternak, MSN, PMHNP

Anna Pasternak, MSN, is a board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). The focus of Anna's clinical and academic work is providing compassionate, evidenced-based psychiatric care to vulnerable and underserved communities in San Diego County and helping facilitate the development of PMHNP trainees to do the same.

Anna is highly involved in UC San Diego's PMHNP fellowship programs as a clinical supervisor, individual mentor and as the fellowship education lead for both the child-adolescent and adult tracks. She also works in the UC San Diego Eating Disorder Center (EDC) Adolescent Program, seeing her own caseload and functioning as the PMHNP CAP Fellowship clinical supervisor.

Additionally, Anna is UC San Diego's PMHNP lead at the Areta Crowell Center (ACC), one of San Diego County's outpatient clinics. At ACC, Anna provides psychiatric services to adults struggling with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders while also functioning as a clinical preceptor to PMHNP students through UC San Diego's clinical training program.

She completed her PMHNP graduate education at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and then moved to San Diego to complete UC San Diego's PMHNP post-graduate child-adolescent psychiatric (CAP) fellowship program. Anna is now a core PMHNP within UC San Diego's Community Psychiatry Program.

Outside of work, Anna continues to train competitively as a long-distance runner and enjoys spending time with her husband and admiring how adorable their dog, Lulu, is.

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For more information, see Behavioral and Mental Health Care.

DegreeUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIMaster's DegreeVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN
GenderFemale
Date Joined Staff2021-11-29
Board Certifications
American Nurses Credentialing Center
Conditions and Treatments
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Mood Disorders
  • Psychotic Disorders
  • Community Psychiatry
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Eating Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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