Paul R. Valbuena, M.D., is a licensed physician in Arizona, specializing in behavioral health and wellness, and has been in practice here in the Phoenix Metropolitan area now since 2009. He has been a practicing physician since 2003. He is a double-board certified psychiatrist and a diplomate in the American Board Of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as the American Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, with specialties in addiction psychiatry. He go his undergraduate degree in Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma in 1992. With Dr. Valbuena being a first generation Filipino born in Baltimore, MD, and being the middle of son of a father who worked as a general surgeon and a mother who was a registered nurse in Maryland, he went on to the Philippines to connect to his culture more after graduating college. It was there he fell in love with his culture, met and bonded with all his relatives there, and ultimately went to medical school there where he met his wife in 1995. After graduation, he went on to Michigan State University to do his adult psychiatry residency where he got more exposure and experience in addiction and behavioral health. He later went on to complete his Child and Adolescent Fellowship program here in Phoenix, AZ, which now is called Creighton University.