Newport TMS Treatment Center

Raafat W Girgis, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine & Psychosomatic Medicine in Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Dr. Girgis received his post-doctoral training in the United Kingdom for 3 years, before moving permanently to the USA in 1991, where he obtained three Board certifications in General Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine & Psychosomatic Medicine from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

During his career, Dr. Girgis claimed rich and diverse experience in different specialties including formal training in Internal medicine, ENT Surgery, Neurology, and psychiatry, which equipped him to treat a wide spectrum of complex interrelated medical and psychiatric illnesses for both the adult and geriatric population, and in multiple venues like hospital ICU’s as well as inpatient and outpatient practice in both academic and community-based settings.

Dr. Girgis is sitting on the board of directors of several non-profit organizations (NGO’s) that provide medical and humanitarian relief work in underdeveloped countries with objectives of fighting poverty, disease, and mental illness.

Dr. Girgis has a weekly Television program that airs overseas and aimed at public education and increasing awareness to achieve wellness both physically and mentally and is the co-author of “The Broken Chains” a book that explains in lay terms, the effects of childhood trauma on personality development.