Dr. Chaves graduated from medical school in Colombia. After working as a general physician in underserved areas of Colombia, he moved to the United States to pursue psychiatry research. He completed his psychiatry residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami. There, he was appointed Chief Resident during the last year of his training and received the award for Best Resident Research Project in 2013. He subsequently completed a subspecialty in addiction psychiatry. Dr. Chaves has practiced in the states of Florida and New York, and across a wide range of settings, including emergency psychiatry, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs, detoxification and rehabilitation programs, outpatient and inpatient services, private practice, and jails and intermediate- and maximum-security prisons.
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