Shashank V Joshi

Prof. Shashank V Joshi

Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Biography

Dr. Shashank Joshi is Professor and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Wellbeing at Stanford University. He serves as Director of School Mental Health and Director of combined training in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for Stanford Children’s Health. He trained as both a pediatrician and psychiatrist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx (1993-1998). He is a member of the Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup for the State of California, and he serves on the advisory boards of the Jed Foundation and the National Center on School Mental Health. His publications focus on interprofessional collaboration, cultural aspects of pediatric health, wellbeing promotion in youth and young adults, and suicide prevention in schools and other community settings. His current book, Thinking About Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth & Families (American Psychiatric Press 2022), examines the relational and psychotherapeutic aspects of medication treatment.

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Stanford University

Stanford, California, USA

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