Paramjit T. Joshi, MD
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Children's National Medical Center
Director, Psychiatry
Faculty, Psychology
Principal Investigator, Children's Research Institute
Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR)
George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics
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Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Neuroscience Research (CNR)
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
202-476-2389
pjoshi@childrensnational.org
Education & Training
| Institution & Location |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
| Govt. College for Women, Punjab University, India |
Pre-Medical |
1966 |
Biology |
| Christian Medical College & Brown Memorial Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India |
MD |
1970 |
Medicine |
Research Interests
Paramjit T. Joshi, MD, is the Endowed Professor & chair of the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s National Medical Center and professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences & Pediatrics, at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She first trained as a pediatrician and then completed her training in general and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she remained for 22 years before joining Children’s National Medical Center in 1999. Dr. Joshi has been studying mood disorders for over two decades and also has expertise in the study of psychological effects of violence, crisis, and trauma in children. She has received numerous grants to direct research and is currently conducting a multi-site study on the treatment of early age mania. She is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and is the president of the Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2006-2008). She is a recipient of the APA’s Bruno Lima award for outstanding contributions in the care and understanding of disaster psychiatry. In addition she has been honored by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) with the Annual Exemplary Psychiatrist Award for her contributions to a greater understanding of brain disorders and mental illness. She has taught and published extensively on the issues of depression, bipolar disorder, and childhood trauma.
Clinical Interests
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Publications
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