Psychiatry Leadership in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Raymond Nwaneri DNP, MBA, MSN, M.Sc, AGNP, PMHNP-BC

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Group Head Clinical Operations

Raymond is not a physician. He is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, double Board Certified as an adult and gerontology primary care nurse practitioner, and a family psychiatric nurse practitioner. He also holds a Master’s Certificate in psychopharmacology. He is a thoroughbred and consummate professional clinician with robust clinical exposures and experiences in children, adolescents, adults and geriatric psychiatry and primary healthcare, held adjunct clinical faculty positions at Temple University Philadelphia, where he taught and mentored undergraduate nursing students, and at Wilkes University where he taught and mentored graduate psychiatric nurse practitioner students before venturing into full-time private practice. He maintains active Allied Medical credentials at Haven Behavioral Hospital of Philadelphia, where he supports the physician group in treatment of individuals with acute/chronic health conditions living with all kinds of mental and behavioral health challenges. He is a highly sought-after clinical resource person.

He was one of the few NP providers that carried an X license to treat Addiction and Substance disorders before the friendly update by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He participates in the Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program. His experience, training, and exposure cuts across different clinical settings including but not limited to inpatient, outpatient, substance abuse and addiction, community mental health, college and student mental health, correctional mental health, hospital, skilled/rehab nursing home, group home, residential homes and educational psychiatry. He continues to treat various mental health challenges including but not limited to depression, Bipolar, Anxiety, Insomnia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorders, ADHD, and dementia spectrum, which encompasses frontotemporal, Lewy body, vascular, Alzheimer disease and behavioral disturbances associated with dementia as evidence by agitation and aggressiveness with care and cargivers, wandering, restlessness, accusatory, sundowning, weight loss due to changes in eating habits, delusions and hallucinations, etc.

In addition to his robust certifications and degrees in healthcare. Dr Raymond Nwaneri, is a graduate of the Executive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership development program of the Wharton Business School Executive Education, University of Pennsylvania. He also has under his belt a Master of Business Administration (MBA), a Master of Science in Economics, (M.Sc), and a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting, (B.Sc). He holds active membership in the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is married with kids and has a passion for disseminating knowledge.