Asim Shah
Prof
Baylor College of Medicine
United States
Biography
Dr. Shah is Vice Chair for Community Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry, Family and Community Medicine at Baylor college of medicine and Chief of Psychiatry for Ben Taub Hospital/Harris Health System. His service is the largest outpatient Mental Health provider in Harris County, with approximately 100,000 visits a year. He is also the Director of Mood Disorder Research Program at Ben Taub and the Executive Director of Psychotherapy Services for Ben Taub Hospital. Dr Shah Has done numerous media presentations to National and International Radio/TV/Newspapers 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 won the faculty of the year award in 2013 from Baylor¹s Psychiatric residency program, and in 2014 from Baylor¹s Psychology Internship Program, and also was named by Houstonia magazine in their Top Drs list for Houston in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He received Castle Connolly’s Top Doctor 2017 award this year.
Research Interest
Psychiatry