• Medical Director of two outpatient mental health clinics in Maryland. 
• Consulting Psychiatrist at Padder Health Services, Laurel, MD
• Alumnus of MBA Healthcare Management, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD

• American Board of Addiction Medicine, 2013
• American Board of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2012
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2008

• DATA 2000 waiver for Buprenorphine by SMHSA
• Master in Psycho-pharmacologist Certification from Steven Stahl, MD (Neuroscience Education Institute
• Drexel University/Hahnemann University Hospital Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases

Multilingual- English, Spanish, Hindi

• American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry “Stepping Stone Award,” 2007
• “Chief Resident” Award, Department of Psychiatry, 2006-2007
• APA/Lilly Chief Residents’ Leadership Program, New York, NY, October 2006
• “Enhancement of Scholarly Activity” Award, Nassau University Medical Center, June 2006
• American Psychiatry Association “Mini-Fellow Award,” 2006
• “Best Abstract Award” on Sudden Death, 7th International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias, Venice, Italy, 2001

• Health Grades Honor Roll, 2014
• Top Doctor Award Maryland 2014
• Top Doctor Award Baltimore 2104.
• America’s Top Psychiatrist, Consumer Federation of the US, 2010 & 2011
• Patients’ Choice Award, 2012 & 2013
• Compassionate Doctor recognition, 2012
• Author of Organized Wisdom Bipolar 101 & 102, 2012
• Strathmore’s Who’s Who in America, 2001
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2002

• Medical Director of two busy outpatient mental health clinics with challenging patient populations
• Evaluation and treatment of all ages: children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics
• Evaluation and treatment of dual diagnoses, including buprenorphine and other modalities
• Experience in emergency psychiatry and correctional mental health
• Experience in tele-psychiatry

• M.D. with Honors (Cum Laude)
• Best Outgoing Graduate in Medicine Class of 1999 Honors in the following subjects of Medicine:
  Anatomy, Anesthesiology, Biostatistics, Emergency Medicine, Experimental Surgery, Genetics, Geriatrics, Human Sexuality and Child Abuse, Infectious Diseases, Legal Medicine, Microbiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nutrition, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Parasitology, Pathology, Physical Diagnosis, Physiology, Plastic Surgery, Pnuematology, Preventive Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Tropical Medicine and Urology
• 1st Position in 22 Subjects of Medicine
• 2nd Position in 17 Subjects of Medicine
• Distinction in Physics and Chemistry (Pre-Medical)

• Addiction neurobiology and treatment
• Anger management
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Cardiac side effects of psychotropic
• Cognitive disorders
• Depression
• Diabetes/ Metabolic Syndrome
• Emotional disorders
• Genetics of mental disorders
• Learning & memory
• Novel psychotropic including triple re-uptake inhibitors and NMDA antagonists
• Schizophrenia

• American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry “Stepping Stone Award,” 2007
• 160th American Psychiatry Association Annual Convention, 2007
• Sexual Dysfunction Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, April 2006
• 159th American Psychiatry Association Annual Convention, 2006
• 12th World Congress on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Hong Kong, February 2003
• Annual Congress of European Society of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany, September 2002
• Tran Catheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), Washington, DC, September 2002
• 23rd Annual scientific session of the North American Society of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE), San Diego, May 2002
• AHA Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, Hawaii, April 2002
• 6th World Congress of Echocardiography, New Delhi, India, February 2002
• New Era Cardiac Care 2002, California, January 2002
• World Congress of Cardiac Electrophysiology (Cardiostim 2002), French Rivera, France, 2002
• Seventh Asian Pacific Conference on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Beijing, China, October 2001
• Seventh International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias, Venice, Italy, October 2001
• Tran-catheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), Washington, DC, September 2001
• Annual Scientific Session of the European Working Groups on Pacing and Arrhythmia (Euro pace), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2001
• Asian Pacific Congress on Cardiology, Manila, Philippines, October 2001