JENNA HIESTAND

JENNA HIESTAND, M.D. has joined St. Joseph’s Health on the inpatient psychiatry team. In her new role, she joins a team of physicians to provide psychiatric care to the community. Hiestand is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than 17 years of clinical experience. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s Health, she served as chief medical officer for Alaska Behavioral Health, a certified community behavioral- health center with offices in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. She also served as the medical director of behavioral-health services at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, where she was responsible for inpatient psychiatry, residential substance-use treatment, and outpatient services. Prior to that, Hiestand spent seven years in Oregon and held supervisory roles at Oregon State Hospital in Salem and Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland. She earned her doctor of medicine degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1999, and her bachelor’s degree in cell and molecular biology from Tulane University in New Orleans. Hiestand completed a psychiatry residency in 2003 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine. Hiestand is seeing patients at St. Joseph’s Health Hospital.