Sagar V. Parikh MD FRCPC

Summary

• Sagar V. Parikh, M.D., FRCPC is appointed as the John F. Greden Professor of Depression and Clinical Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Medical Director of the National Network of Depression Centers (USA) and Education Chair of the Canadian Network of Mood and Anxiety Treatments. He is also a Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, and continues as an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he was on staff full- time from 1994-2015. Dr. Parikh is the author / editor of three books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and co-author of all 10 editions (1997-2018) of CANMAT treatment guidelines for Depression and for Bipolar Disorder, the world’s most cited mood disorder guidelines. Current major projects include a multi-site study of Biomarkers in Major Depression, novel medication clinical trials, website and app interventions, Workplace Depression interventions, and interventional psychiatry treatments including IV Ketamine and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. As medical director of Mensante, he helped create a novel internet system for recognition and management of mental disorders that is commercially marketed. He serves on the Advisory Board of Aifred (apply Artificial Intelligence tools to psychiatry) and Neonmind (employing psychedelics and developing new clinical models). Dr. Parikh was awarded the Dave Davis CEPD Research Award from the University of Toronto in 2008, the R.O. Jones Award for Best Research Paper by the Canadian Psychiatric Association in 2011, and Paula Goering Collaborative Research and Knowledge Translation Award in 2018. The Michigan Depression Toolkit, a website tool that he leads, won the 2018 Bronze Digital Health Award. He was awarded the 2019 Academic Gold Award for the Psychiatric Services Achievement from the APA, and 2020 Mogens Schou Award from ISBD.