HeenaDeepakPanchalMD

Behavioral Health Director of Family Medicine Residency, Medical Student Educator, Psychiatrist and Family Medicine Physician

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I am a Physician Double Boarded in Psychiatry and Family Medicine. I am combining these two specialties through integrated care in order to provide medical and mental health care in a holistic manner. My work also focuses on addressing health disparities in the severe mental illness and persistent mental illness population (SMI/SPMI). I provide full spectrum Family Medicine and Psychiatry services. My interests include teaching and training primary care providers in mental health. I am interested in global health, providing medical care to underserved, immigrant and refugee populations.

As a behavioral health director for our family medicine residency, I am involved in developing and implementing an integrated behavioral health model within primary care. I train, supervise and teach primary care residents in mental health and primary care, and also teach medical students.

My international work has focused on training primary care providers in mental health so that they can provide mental health care in resource poor settings.

UCSF HealthFamily Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship, 2018 - 2019
UPMC Medical EducationResidency, Psychiatry, 2012 - 2016
University of California, DavisM.D., Medicine, 2008 - 2012
University of California, Davis, School of MedicineClass of 2012
University of California, BerkeleyBA, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, With Honors, 2003 - 2007

Graduating Resident Humanism Award Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 2017
Award for Best Research Poster Presentation Family Medicine Educator Conference, 2016
Roger Haskett Excellence in Psychiatry Award Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 2016
Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (Conference) Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, 2015
Doctoring Teaching Scholar Award University of California Davis Medical School, 2012
Undergraduate Honors in Molecular and Cell Biology University of California Berkeley, 2007
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PubMed

46 citations
Early Anti-Oxidative and Anti-Proliferative Curcumin Effects on Neuroglioma Cells Suggest Therapeutic Targets
Heena D. Panchal, Karen Vranizan, Chun Y. Lee, Jacqueline B. Ho, John Ngai
Neurochemical Research. 2008-02-26

Journal Articles

Comparative effects of curcumin on C6 rat glioma and T98G human glioblastoma cells
Panchal, H, Experimental Gerontology, 1/1/2009
Early Anti-Oxidative and Anti-Proliferative Curcumin Effects on Neuroglioma Suggest Therapeutic Targets
Panchal, HD; Vranizan, K, Lee; CY, Ho, J; Timiras, PS, Neurochemical Research, 1/1/2008
Neurogenesis from Neuroglia: Curcumin's Potential Role in Transforming Neuroglia into Neurons
Gouw, A; Panchal, H; Ho, J; Ghazi, K; Chang, T; Singh, S; Timiras, PS, The Faseb Journal, 1/1/2008

Abstracts/Posters

A Community and Provider Centered Approach Towards Integrating Sustainable Mental Health Services in a Rural Primary Care Honduran Clinic.
Panchal H; Huijon M, Meyer M, Travis MJ, Family Medicine Educator Conference, 1/28/2016
A Community and Provider Centered Approach Towards Integrating Sustainable Mental Health Services in a Rural Primary Care Honduran Clinic.
Panchal H; Huijon M, Meyer M; Travis MJ, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Research Day, 1/9/2016
Integrated Care Model: A Community and Provider Centered Approach Towards Integrating Sustainable Mental Health Services in a Rural Primary care Honduran Clinic.
Panchal H; Huijon M, Meyer M, Travis MJ, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry Conference, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2016
A Mental Health Screening Intervention in a Rural Honduran Community, Case Studies in Program Design.
Panchal H., Huijon M, Meyer M, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry Conference, Denver, CO, 1/1/2015
A Mental Health Screening Intervention in a Rural Honduran Community.
Panchal H., Huijon M, Meyer M., Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Research Day, 1/1/2015
The anti-proliferative and anti-oxidant curcumin influences gene expression of c6 rat glioma in vitro.
Panchal, H. Timiras, PS, Experimental Gerontology A Summary of the Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging, Bregenz, Austria, 1/1/2007
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Lectures

Global Mental Health: Integrating Sustainable Mental Health Services in a Honduran Primary Care Clinic
1/2/2017
A Mental Health Screening Intervention in a Rural Honduran Community, Case Studies in Program Design.
Denver, CO - 1/1/2015

Other

The anti-proliferative and anti-oxidant curcumin influences gene expression of c6 rat glioma in vitro.
Panchal, H, Experimental Gerontology A Summary of the Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the N
Bregenz, Austria - 1/1/2007