About Dr. Rives

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama, majoring in music, Dr. Rives earned his M.D. from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He then completed an internal medicine internship at Baptist Medical Centers (Montclair and Princeton Hospitals) in Birmingham, and a psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Rives has practiced adolescent and adult psychiatry in Northern Virginia for over 15 years and has served as a clinical instructor in psychiatry for both Georgetown University’s and Johns Hopkins University’s Schools of Medicine as well as a counseling practicum supervisor for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a member of Arlington County Public Schools’ School Health Advisory Board, serving as Co-Chair last year.

Dr. Rives has been an Arlington resident since 1999. He and his wife Carmen have two children who attend Wakefield High School and Gunston Middle School and previously attended Abingdon, Claremont Immersion, and Hoffman-Boston Elementary Schools. Since 2016 he has served as an Arlington County Election officer, now an Assistant Chief (recused this cycle).

For the past 20 years Dr. Rives has directed adult and children's church choirs, and he sings in the all-volunteer Alexandria Choral Society. From 2015-2018 he was the accompanist for the Mount Eagle Elementary School Choir in the Fairfax County Public School system. He has accompanied for Claremont Immersion in Arlington as well.