Ali-Reza Force, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist, is the Director of Behavioral Health for the Health Care District’s community health centers where he oversees the psychiatric, behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs and providers, and assists with program development. In this role, Dr. Force also precepts the Lakeside Medical Center family medicine program residents in their psychiatry rotation, serves as a lead in the community health centers to model evidence-based behavioral health care to other providers and support teams, and treats adult and pediatric patients.
Prior to joining the Health Care District, Dr. Force was a psychiatrist at Banyan Treatment Centers and Jessie Trice Community Health Center, both Federally Qualified Health Centers in Miami, Florida, where he worked closely with psychiatrists and APRNs treating patients of all ages and encompassing a wide variety of mental health needs. He started his medical career as a psychiatrist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Force received his Doctor of Medicine at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York and completed his residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.