Faculty & Staff

Dr. Karim Ghobrial-Sedky is the program director of FHCSD’s Psychiatry Residency Program. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, sleep medicine and addiction medicine. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He speaks English and Arabic.

He graduated from Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. He completed his psychiatry residency at Drexel University (formerly known as MCP Hahnemann), as well as a child and adolescent psychiatry residency in the same program. Dr. Sedky have held several leadership and educational positions including the director of the inpatient unit at Hershey Medical Center, medical student educational director at Cooper University Hospital/Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CUH/CMSRU) and the psychiatry program director at CUH.

Dr. Sedky has a passion for teaching, education and research. He has several awards, including a Residency Award for Research Excellence, Penn State Milton Hershey Resident’s Award for Teaching Excellence and was recognized by Cooper Health System and Rowan University in 2018. In addition, he was the recipient of the Techiner Award in 2021 to support the psychodynamic curriculum development at CUH program. He has been involved in both ADMSEP and AADPRT over the years. In addition, Dr. Sedky is well published and is very interested in the intersection between psychiatry, addiction and sleep medicine.

In his free time, Dr. Sedky enjoys water-related activities such as fishing, swimming and snorkeling, as well as traveling.

Dane Crockford is a licensed clinical psychologist and mental health manager for Oceanside Family Counseling Center. He has been working at FHCSD since 2016 and became core faculty for the psychiatry residency in 2022.

Prior to studying psychology, Dane completed his B.S. in aerospace engineering at USC and worked both as an engineer and IT consultant, before later deciding to transition into a helping profession. He completed his Psy.D. degree from Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology. He is trained in family systems, emotion-focused therapy, EMDR, mindfulness and yoga. Dane has a passion for leveraging technology to solve problems.

Dane believes deeply in the mission of FHCSD to provide the highest quality health care services to underserved populations. During his time at FHCSD, his passion for connecting across disciplines led him to apply to the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Fellowship where he completed a two-year program. He is currently working with a multi-disciplinary team to help broaden the scope of integrative wellness services offered at FHCSD, including an integrative health pilot for chronic pain.

Outside of work he enjoys spending time in nature, doing jiu jitsu, going to the dog park and having conversations over coffee. Dane is a lifelong helper committed to making integrative health care a reality in our communities.

Dixie Galapon obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego in 1997. She joined Family Health Centers of San Diego in 2016 and is the associate director for mental health. Dixie is one of the founding members of FHCSD’s psychiatry residency program and she also contributed to the development of its psychotherapy curriculum.

Dixie provides administrative oversight for multiple clinic sites, oversees the psychological testing department and has been a longstanding member of FHCSD’s Diversity and Inclusion Council.

Prior to joining FHCSD, she worked at the Union of Pan Asian Communities in San Diego for 17 years where she managed various mental health programs focused on serving the Asian/Pacific Islander communities and other refugee/immigrant communities. She also presented trainings for the County of San Diego and Behavioral Health Cultural Competence Academy in addition to other cultural responsiveness trainings.

Dr. Chrisalbeth Guillermo is a board-certified psychiatrist and educator who joined Family Health Centers of San Diego to develop curriculum and mentor future adult psychiatrists. Her training has focused on community and public psychiatry, women’s mental health, the LGBTQ+ community and integrative and preventive medicine. Her psychotherapeutic approaches include motivational interviewing, supportive-expressive psychotherapy and psychodynamic therapy. Dr. Guillermo is committed to advocating for underserved, marginalized and complex patient populations and integrating social determinants of health, health equity and cultural humility into clinical care, education and institutional culture.

Dr. Guillermo earned her medical degree from Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUNCOM). She completed her psychiatry residency at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), where she also earned a Master of Science in Medical Education. She later completed the Rural/Public Psychiatry Fellowship at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. During her fellowship, she taught Mental Health First Aid to LECOM students and correctional officers at the Lake Erie County Prison. She also served as an attending psychiatrist at LECOM, supervising senior residents in clinics, the county prison and residential treatment facilities.

After returning to Las Vegas, Dr. Guillermo continued her work in medical education by partnering with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and TUNCOM to precept osteopathic medical students, physician assistant students, nurse practitioners in the Psychiatry Fellowship Program and psychiatry residents at the Southern Nevada Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In addition to caring for veterans in the community clinic setting, she provided gender-affirming care to transgender veterans through the Gender-Informed Focused Treatment (GIFT) Clinic.

Dr. Guillermo considers Las Vegas her hometown and grew up in California and southern Japan. Outside of medicine, she enjoys traveling, baking, playing the cello and spending time with her pets.

Dr. Mark Knight joined Family Health Centers of San Diego in 2014 and became a core faculty member in 2022. He is the assistant director for the child and adolescent division.

Dr. Knight received his medical degree from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His passion to help individuals struggling with psychiatric conditions lead him to complete his general psychiatry training at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Knight then went on to further his training by completing a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Knight specializes in treating children and adolescents with a focus on psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, especially mindfulness therapy. Dr. Knight is board-certified in general psychiatry, as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. As he enjoys teaching, he has been voluntary faculty at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), precepting the child and adolescent fellows during their outpatient clinic experience. He is also heavily involved in teaching child psychiatry curriculum to FHCSD’s family medicine residents. He was awarded the Top Doctors Award in San Diego Magazine in 2012. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with family.

Madeline Ofina is a licensed clinical psychologist and core faculty member for FHCSD’s Psychiatry Residency Program. Her work focuses on serving marginalized and underserved communities through trauma-informed and culturally responsive care. Her clinical interests include liberation psychology, complex trauma, veteran mental health, restorative justice, LGBTQ2IA+ populations, intergenerational trauma and decolonizing mental health care.

Madeline earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco. She trained with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers in San Francisco and Detroit. She later served as a local recovery coordinator for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Chicago, overseeing programmatic and systemic changes to mental health programs.

In her private practice in the greater San Diego area, Madeline integrates cultural and Indigenous wisdom into mental health care, with a focus on the effects of immigration and racial trauma. As a member of FHCSD’s core faculty, she teaches trauma-informed and culturally informed psychotherapy to psychiatry residents.

Outside of work, Madeline is a published poet and proud tia. She enjoys paddleboarding with her rescue dog, Amor, and learning Spanish.

Dr. Kerin Orbe is assistant medical director of psychiatry, which involves oversight of the Clozaril program, long-acting injectable clinic and the concentrated program. She joined FHCSD in 2019 and became core faculty in 2022.

Dr. Orbe received her medical degree from New York School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her psychiatric residency at New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, where she was the chief resident in her last training year. Her passion for education was highlighted by supervising and teaching third- and fourth-year medical students throughout the years. She currently supervises FHCSD’s nurse practitioners. She is involved in FHCSD’s Family Medicine Residency teaching, including providing clinical rotation experience in psychiatry, as well as psychiatry lectures. She has provided electroconvulsive therapy for her patients over the years.

In 2014, Dr. Orbe was the recipient of a Caregram Award for employee of the month. She was elected as one of the “Best in California” as a featured psychiatrist representing San Diego, which will be published in the 2023 magazine edition.

She is board-certified in general psychiatry and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Osteopathic Association and the Neurology Education Institute. She has worked with patients of all ages, but has a special interest in working with the elderly. Dr. Orbe is also fluent in English and Spanish.

In her free time, Dr. Orbe enjoys spending time with her family and pets, dancing and exercising.

Dr. Joe Anthony Sepulveda serves as the department chair, chief of psychiatry and medical director for substance use disorder services at Family Health Centers of San Diego, the largest federally qualified health center in San Diego. He is double boarded by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Preventive Medicine, certified in the subspecialty of addiction medicine and a fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sepulveda has held several leadership positions throughout his career and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the San Diego Psychiatric Society, the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the California Society of Addiction Medicine, where he also is a member of the Committee on Opioids.

Dr. Sepulveda is a graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed his psychiatry training at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics after which he joined FHCSD in 2013.

Dr. Sepulveda has obtained several grants over the years and is well published. He has received several awards throughout his undergraduate, medical school and graduate school training and is a recipient of the FHCSD Provider of Compassion Award in 2018 for his dedication to patient care, service to the underserved and leadership within the departments of mental health and substance use disorder services at FHCSD.

Graduate medical education and teaching have been a central focus throughout Dr. Sepulveda’s career. In addition to being on the core faculty for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, Dr. Sepulveda is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Department of Psychiatry and is on the clinical teaching faculty for the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program, the UCSD Community Psychiatry Residency Program, the FHCSD Family Medicine Residency Program and oversees the FHCSD Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program and the University of San Diego (USD) Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner clinical training program at FHCSD. He is a sought-after lecturer and in the San Diego community and has been a voice for educating the public on mental health issues and substance use disorders on both television and radio.

In his free time, Dr. Sepulveda enjoys traveling, the cinema and swimming.

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Jake Christensen has been the manager of the Psychiatry Residency Program since its creation. Prior to joining FHCSD, Jake served in the Marine Corps, where he received multiple meritorious promotions and commendations.

After retiring from the Marines, Jake attended the University of California, San Diego, where he earned his degree in international studies, political science and Middle Eastern influence. He later spent several years traveling internationally before returning to San Diego to work in the nonprofit sector. His nonprofit work included The Soldiers Project, where he helped post-9/11 veterans and their families access free mental and behavioral health care.

Jake and his wife later moved to Arizona so she could continue her medical education. During this time, he developed a passion for undergraduate medical education while working at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Now back in San Diego, Jake looks forward to continuing the development of FHCSD’s Psychiatry Residency Program and his work in graduate medical education.

In his free time, Jake enjoys spending time with his wife and their four children.