Work Experience:
07/2014 – Present Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
04/2010 – 06/2011 Office of the University Chaplain, Yale University
Hindu Fellow (Representative to the campus Hindu community)
01/2009 – 05/2009 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Psychiatric Consultant Amman, Jordan
05/2004 – 05/2006 Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Research Assistant for Professors Michael Witzel and Ali Asani
Post-Doctoral Training:
07/2011 – 06/2014 Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
NIMH T32 Fellow in Affective and Anxiety Disorders
07/2008 – 06/2011 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
Psychiatry Resident
07/2007 – 06/2008 Department of Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Internal Medicine Intern
Education:
05/2004 – 05/2007 Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
AM, May 2007 (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
06/2000 – 05/2004 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
MD/MBA, May 2004
08/1996 – 05/2000 Case Western Reserve University, College of Arts and Sciences
BA, May 2000 (4 majors with honors: French Literature, Spanish Literature,
International Studies, and Political Science)
Select Honors:
2016 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
2016 Fellow, Truman National Security Project
2016 Dean’s Lecture, School of Social Work, University of Texas Austin
2016 Invited Presenter, World Psychiatric Association Task Force on Social
Divisions & Extremist Violence: Gangs, Cults, Terrorists, and Violent
Offending, Queen Mary University of London (closed conference)
2016 Invited Presenter, Psychoanalysis and Terrorism: French and American
Perspectives Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Université
Paris Diderot/ Université de Strasbourg (closed conference)
2015 Celebrity Physician, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
2014 Henry Walton Award, Association for the Study of Medical Education, for
the most downloaded article in “Really Good Stuff” from Medical Education
2012 Policy Scholar, New York State Office of Mental Health
2009-2012 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association/Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Award Minority Fellowships Program
2009-2011 Fellow, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
2005 Recipient, Foreign Language and Area Studies Program, US Department
of Education
2000 Emile B. de Sauzé Award, Case Western Reserve University
1999 Mortar Board National Honors Society, Case Western Reserve University
1999 Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Languages Honors Society, Case
Western Reserve University
07/2014 – Present Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
04/2010 – 06/2011 Office of the University Chaplain, Yale University
Hindu Fellow (Representative to the campus Hindu community)
01/2009 – 05/2009 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Psychiatric Consultant Amman, Jordan
05/2004 – 05/2006 Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Research Assistant for Professors Michael Witzel and Ali Asani
Post-Doctoral Training:
07/2011 – 06/2014 Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
NIMH T32 Fellow in Affective and Anxiety Disorders
07/2008 – 06/2011 Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
Psychiatry Resident
07/2007 – 06/2008 Department of Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Internal Medicine Intern
Education:
05/2004 – 05/2007 Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
AM, May 2007 (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
06/2000 – 05/2004 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
MD/MBA, May 2004
08/1996 – 05/2000 Case Western Reserve University, College of Arts and Sciences
BA, May 2000 (4 majors with honors: French Literature, Spanish Literature,
International Studies, and Political Science)
Select Honors:
2016 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
2016 Fellow, Truman National Security Project
2016 Dean’s Lecture, School of Social Work, University of Texas Austin
2016 Invited Presenter, World Psychiatric Association Task Force on Social
Divisions & Extremist Violence: Gangs, Cults, Terrorists, and Violent
Offending, Queen Mary University of London (closed conference)
2016 Invited Presenter, Psychoanalysis and Terrorism: French and American
Perspectives Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Université
Paris Diderot/ Université de Strasbourg (closed conference)
2015 Celebrity Physician, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
2014 Henry Walton Award, Association for the Study of Medical Education, for
the most downloaded article in “Really Good Stuff” from Medical Education
2012 Policy Scholar, New York State Office of Mental Health
2009-2012 Fellow, American Psychiatric Association/Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Award Minority Fellowships Program
2009-2011 Fellow, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
2005 Recipient, Foreign Language and Area Studies Program, US Department
of Education
2000 Emile B. de Sauzé Award, Case Western Reserve University
1999 Mortar Board National Honors Society, Case Western Reserve University
1999 Phi Sigma Iota International Foreign Languages Honors Society, Case
Western Reserve University
