Dr. Asim Shah-Mental Health-Harris County

Dr. Shah is the Chief of Psychiatry of Harris Health System/Ben Taub Hospital, and the Director of the Community Behavioral Program for Harris Health System. He service is the largest outpatient provider for Mental Health services in Harris County, with over 100,000 visits a year. He is also the Director of Mood Disorder Research Program , and the Executive Director of Psychotherapy Services for Ben Taub Hospital. He is Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine.  Dr Shah Has done numerous media presentations to National and International Radio/TV on topics like Ketamine and Depression, Election stress, mass shootings, stress management, work related stress, ADHD, road rage, seasonal affective disorder and has widely presented both nationally and internationally.  He has received two Fulbright and Jaworski Awards, one for Teaching and Evaluation in 2012 and second for Educational Leadership in 2014. He also received Rising Star Clinician Award from Baylor in 2014. His current research is in the field of treatment resistant depression, and ketamine.

 

He also serves as Site Director for Psychiatry Residency Training Program and is involved with teaching of the Baylor Psychiatry, Neurology, Internal Medicine, as well as Family and Community Medicine residents and medical students and social workers. Before joining Baylor, he served as the chief of staff of his local hospital in Arkansas, and was a member of the board of the hospital. He received the National Medical Director of the Year award in 2002 and 2003. In 2012, he was also selected to receive the President’s Program for the Care of Highly Qualified Professionals (PPQP) Scholarship Award, for his role in the expansion of the field of Psychiatry in the country.