DeVon Stokes, PhD
Specialty: Family Medicine
Location: Family Medicine Center - University of Nevada School of Medicine- Brigham Building, Reno
Education
Undergraduate: Oakwood College
Fellowship: Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine (Family and Health Psychology)
Dr. DeVon Stokes is director of behavioral science and assistant professor of family and community medicine. He completed his graduate degrees in clinical psychology at The Ohio State University, and his internship at UC Irvine Counseling Center. He holds a Certificate of Faculty Development in Graduate Medical Residency Education from Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine.
Dr. Stokes was also a traveling scholar with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan, in addition to studying at Harvard and Oxford Universities.
Dr. Stokes has held faculty appointments as adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences and clinical associate professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He also served as a peer counselor at the National Alliance for the Mental Ill in Lacey, Washington.
Dr. Stokes has been mentored by leading figures in psychology, family therapy, residency education and interprofessional training, and who invested in public scholarship and university and community citizenship.
Dr. Stokes serves on the University of Nevada, Reno faculty where he develops teaching strategies to guide physician residents in meeting graduate medical education standards. He facilitates collaboration with other clinicians, therapists, teachers and clergy, and "stretches" residents to manage complex human relationships via learning to diagnose strengths and resilience, and in utilizing their own patients as the "textbook."
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