Founder
Mark Oppenheimer, PhD
I first encountered the transformative power of ketamine therapy in 2017 when I joined Carlos Zarate's research lab at the National Institutes of Health. I had a front-row seat to some of the most compelling work in modern psychiatry. Zarate had spent years building the evidence base for ketamine as a rapid-acting treatment for depression, and what I witnessed in those clinical trials was incredible. Patients who had exhausted every available treatment, who had carried the weight of treatment-resistant depression for years, responding within hours. I never forgot their stories.
I returned to Miami to pursue my PhD in neuroscience at the University of Miami, studying opioid addiction and the gut-brain axis, but I never stopped being curious about ketamine therapy and psychedelic medicine. By the time I graduated in 2025, the field of psychedelic medicine had continued to boom, but the clinical infrastructure available was not keeping pace. Most ketamine clinics were built around speed and volume, not around the depth of what the medicine could actually do in the right hands, in the right environment, with the right therapeutic support.
Serenoa Medicine is my answer to that gap. I founded it with the conviction that ketamine-assisted therapy, and the broader field of psychedelic medicine that is emerging around it, deserves a clinical home built to match its potential. A space designed with set and setting at its core. A therapeutic model that takes preparation and integration as seriously as the medicine itself. And a long view that positions us for where this field is heading, not just where it is today.
We're building something. Come build it with us.
Serenoa Medicine is assembling a founding clinical team in Miami. We are looking for practitioners who believe that mental health care is overdue for transformation, and want to be part of building a
clinic at the forefront of psychedelic medicine.
Who we're looking for
Don't fit neatly into any of these roles?
We are building something from scratch, and the right people don't always arrive in expected forms. If you are a clinician, researcher, or practitioner who believes in what we are building and wants to be part of it, reach out. We are open to conversations that don't start with a job description.
To express interest in any role, or to introduce yourself, write to us at: