Julia Siar, MD

Julia hails from Provincetown, MA. After studying marine sciences in Rhode Island, Julia graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.S. in animal sciences. She then went on to spend a year working with the Montana Primary Care Association through AmeriCorps on the Cover Montana project which worked to increase enrollment of Montanans in healthcare coverage. Julia attended medical school at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ivins, UT where, among her many other accomplishments, she secured honors in the Rural and Wilderness Track and Advanced Medical Ethics. During medical school Julia maintained an active role in several, diverse volunteer experiences including founding a triage clinic to provide free health education and physical exams to the unhoused population of southern Utah, and producing a short film in Kalispell – the unofficial final installment of Montana-based filmmaker Clayton Ross McDougall’s “The Bad Day Trilogy.” Even before starting medical school, Julia has been involved with several psychiatry-relevant research opportunities including a literature review examining the use of Omega-3s in schizophrenia. She was also selected by the American Psychiatric Association as one of only a handful of medical students to participate in an HIV Psychiatry elective during which she contributed case studies to a textbook that will be published for medical students about the psychiatrist’s role in HIV care. Her hobbies include watching foreign films, running, and ceramics.