Paul S. Hammer, MD is a psychiatrist with an eclectic background and a passion for solving problems and having fun while doing it. 

Dr. Hammer is a former enlisted Marine with Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of San Francisco and his medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego. 

In his Navy career, Dr. Hammer completed tours of duty as a staff psychiatrist at several military medical centers where he developed mental health product lines, supervised mental health clinics and a consultation-liaison psychiatry service. He also served as a psychiatry residency training program director.  He led psychiatric intervention teams for numerous military disasters and served operational tours with Marines, deploying twice to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Given Dr. Hammer’s extensive experience in operational psychiatry, he was selected to stand up the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control and later was named Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.  He was commanding officer of the Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Activity (NAVMISSA) and finished his Navy career on the staff of the Naval Inspector General. 

Dr. Hammer is the recipient of many individual military awards including the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Defense Meritorious Service Medal among others. 

After retiring from the Navy, Dr. Hammer resumed clinical work in psychiatry at Island Hospital in Anacortes, WA where he serves as medical director for Island Psychiatry & Behavioral Health and volunteers as a board member for the Island Health Foundation.

Dr. Hammer and his wife Jamie live in Anacortes.  They have two grown sons and enjoy travel, photography, woodworking, the arts, and outdoor activities in the great Pacific Northwest.