He provides the core inpatient psychiatry experience in addiction training as an attending psychiatrist at the VA, where he trains medical students, nursing students, psychiatry residents and addiction psychiatry fellows. Dr. Guo emphasizes understanding the patient’s culture, developmental history, family history and upbringing in order to “treat the patient, not the illness.” His teaching style involves supervision not only in the psychopharmacology, but also in psychological interventions. He has a very hands-on approach and often models collaboration with different departments and disciplines. He also tries to include families as much as possible. A medical student stated, “It is this kind of dedication to teaching both medicine and humanism that made Dr. Guo stand out among faculty members.”