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Dr. Anthony Bottone is board certified in both general child and adolescent psychiatry. In 1996 he obtained additional qualification in geriatric psychiatry. He graduated from the State University of New York medical school in Brooklyn in 1966 and trained in psychiatry at NYU-Bellevue Medical Center and in child-adolescent psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, where he worked with Salvador Minuchin, MD. Dr. Bottone has also done postgraduate education in the history of medicine at the University of California San Francisco with Professors John De CM Saunders, Chauncy Leake and Ilsa Veith.

His clinical work has been in private practice and later locum psychiatry throughout the country and at the Wellington Hospital and Medical School in New Zealand. He helped his friend and former roommate, the late Dr. David Viscott, establish the first Viscott Institute in California. Recently, he was the chair of psychiatry at the Commonwealth Health Center in the Northern Mariana Islands, an American overseas territory in the South Pacific. While there he lectured extensively and provided training for health and school professionals as well as state officials. In 2001 he identified an unrecognized suicide epidemic and initiated a successful suicide prevention program, for which he was awarded the 2003 Governor’s Humanities Award for Teaching Human Values.

In 2005 Dr. Bottone returned to Washington State, where he resides with his wife and son. His clinical practice is open to all ages, but focuses on children and adolescents with complex cross-cultural, diagnostic and treatment needs. Just prior to joining the Amen Clinic Northwest in 2006, he worked as a child-adolescent psychiatrist at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane.

Ann is experienced and qualified to diagnose and treat patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder, dementia, posttraumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, temporal lobe dysfunction, ring of fire, and other brain imaging patterns as identified by Dr. Amen. She has a particular interest and additional training in the treatment of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. Ann is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, where she is studying to earn a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. She is concurrently studying and receiving additional, intensive training in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington.

Vern S. Cherewatenko, MD, Med He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1986 and completed his Family Practice Residency at the University of Washington, Valley Medical Center, Family Practice Residency Program in 1989. He has a Masters Degree of Education in Counseling Psychology and a BS in Psychology & Pre-Medicine from Montana State University.

Dr. Cherewatenko is a national icon for both cash-based medicine and innovative wellness medical programs having appeared on numerous media outlets including national programs such as ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings, NBC World News Tonight with Tom Brokaw, CNN National News, FOX National News, Trinity Broadcast Network (National) and their various local affiliates. In addition to his regular TV appearances Dr. Cherewatenko was the lead feature on the cover of US News and World Report and has been highlighted on multiple national radio programs, national magazine and national newspaper articles including features in Medical Economics, AMA News, Washington CEO, FORBES, Wall Street Journal, BARRON’S, Kiplinger’s Financial Times with others too numerous to list. Dr. Cherewatenko has also published a book entitled The Stress Cure, released nationally by HarperCollins Publishers in September 2003.