GONZALO G. GURMENDI, MD, FAPA

DR. GURMENDI is a fully trained and licensed physician, who has completed specialized training in general psychiatry and subspecialty training in pediatric psychiatry. He is a graduate of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is certified in general as well as in child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow member of the American Psychiatric Association and Active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), World Mental Health Organization, and several other professional organizations. He serves as the Membership Chair for the Alabama Regional Council of the AACAP.

Dr. Gurmendi was a professor at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UAB between 1991 and 1995, and continues to provide clinical supervision to physicians in training. He was also a psychiatric consultant at the Jefferson-Blount-St. Clair Counties Mental Health Authority between 2005 and 2018.

Dr. Gurmendi is a native of Perú and fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

DONALD A. PAOLETTI, MD

DR. PAOLETTI is a fully trained and licensed physician, who has completed specialized training in general psychiatry and subspecialty training in pediatric psychiatry. He is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Maryland. Dr. Paoletti is certified in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is an Active member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and several other professional organizations. He is currently serving as the President of the Alabama Regional Council of the AACAP.

Dr. Paoletti started his private practice after five years of academia at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Over the past twenty-four years he has not only provided clinical services in this clinic but has also provided patient-care as a consultant at Mitchell's Place, the Eastside Mental Health Center in Birmingham, Catholic Family Services, and the Jefferson-Blount-St. Clair Counties Mental Health Authority.