Dr. Lester Sandman is a psychiatrist currently doing part time consultation at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in California. He began his career in service to the United States Army. After graduating from medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he relocated to Washington, DC, where he accepted a general internship at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Lester Sandman subsequently went into a psychiatry residency at the same institution.
Over the course of the following decade, Dr. Lester Sandman served at military medical facilities both in the United States and abroad. As chief of psychiatry at the 86th Evacuation Hospital in Saudi Arabia, he earned an Army Commendation Medal for the support that he provided to deployed soldiers. Upon his return to the United States, he once again attracted the notice of military officials, this time as chief of inpatient services for Fitzsimons Army Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry in Aurora, Colorado. There, he earned a second commendation medal for his continuing high level of service during department downsizing.
Subsequently, Dr. Sandman established a private practice in Bellevue, WA for the next 23 years where he saw outpatients, primarily on referral from other doctors for medication management of difficult to treat conditions, as well as treated inpatients at Swedish and Fairfax hospitals.
He now enjoys part time hospital work and lives in Palm Desert, CA