Dr. Wallin and Dr. Parad first met in 2019 when they were recruited by the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the University of California, San-Francisco (UCSF), home of the top-ranked residency training programs in the country. Over the subsequent five years, they trained collaboratively in diverse hospitals including UCSF Health, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General. They found in their work a common commitment to simple, honest, and genuine communication, as well as always doing right by patients, even if it meant going against the grain. They also shared in the importance of remaining open-minded, eager to hear and incorporate feedback from patients and colleagues. At Parawall Medical, Dr. Wallin and Dr. Parad feel privileged to create a space that further fosters this communication and collaboration in the service of patients.

Jason E. Parad, MD, MPH, MBE

Educational Background

BS, Yale University, summa cum laude
MPH, University of Pennsylvania
MBE, University of Pennsylvania
MD, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Medical residency, psychiatry, UCSF

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Parad is an adult psychiatrist who is board-eligible per the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He specializes in the treatment of lifestyle problems, anxiety, mood disorders including depression, effects from trauma, ADHD, insomnia, and other emotional problems. He believes that most mental health issues do not fit any clear diagnostic label, and he enjoys collaborating with patients to develop treatment plans that feel right.

Dr. Parad graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, where he earned a BS with distinction in the biology and psychology majors. He received the Yale Science & Engineering Association Award as the top-ranked student in the sciences, among other academic accolades including the William K. Belknap Prize, the Fellows’ Prize, the Yale Student Marshal Award, and the Yale College Writing Prize.

He earned a Master of Public Health and Master of Bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized Korean studies and was awarded the Blakemore Freeman Fellowship for Advanced Asian Language Study, the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, and the James Joo-Jin Kim Graduate Research Grant.

He attended medical school at UCSF where he received the prestigious Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He also took on several public health projects, earning the UC Global Food Initiative Fellowship, the Education Science & Curriculum Design Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, the Vivian Drenckhahn Scholarship, and first place in the annual Big Ideas competition at UC Berkeley.

During his psychiatry training at UCSF, Dr. Parad was widely regarded as a careful yet out-of-the-box thinker. He earned the highest score in his residency program and placed in the 99th percentile on the national Psychiatry Resident In-Training Examination (PRITE).

Amanda Regodon Wallin, MD, MPH

Educational Background

MD, Karolinska Institutet
MPH, Johns Hopkins University
Medical residency, psychiatry, UCSF