Doctor Bota is a board-certified psychiatrist and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

As a psychiatrist, he has a broad background in diagnosing and treating mental illness and major depressive disorder. His career has spanned both academic and private psychiatry practices. In his most recent position, he served as the director of the Medical Psychiatry Unit at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Bota has published over 60 articles and book chapters and has given over 100 presentations at national and international psychiatry conferences. In his pursuit of advanced, novel psychiatric treatments, Dr. Bota has studied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) at Harvard University and at the University of South Carolina. He started and led the first TMS program at UC Irvine and is now proud to lead BrainHealth Solutions in Costa Mesa.

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