"APM provides an array of professional behavioral health care services. Health care providers, psychiatrists, therapists, case managers, peer support specialists and other staff work together as a single team to treat the whole you"
Hector is a proud Puerto Rican psychiatrist. With this background, he completed his medical studies in Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, his residency in Boston University and an addiction psychiatry fellowship in Yale where he treated adults and adolescents with comorbid substance use disorder and mental health difficulties.
Dr. Colon-Rivera grew up between San Juan and Vieques. His mother, a special education teacher often took him to work with her, where he was first exposed to families dealing with mental illness. This early exposure instilled in him a deep understanding of social factors, such as poverty, lack of education, poor accessibility to health care, as well as inadequate social and family support contributing to mental illness.
Following medical school in PR and psychiatric residency training at Boston University, He completed an addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale where he focused on working with Children and Adolescents with substance use disorders.
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