Paramjit Joshi
Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
School of Medicine
School of Medicine
Interim Chair, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
M.D., Christian Medical College, Ludhiana India, 1970
University of California, Irvine
3800 West Chapman Ave
Irvine, CA 92697
3800 West Chapman Ave
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Mood disorders, Global mental health
Awards and Honors
1996 Advocacy Award "Catchers in the Rye": American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Work Group on Consumer Issues)
1997 Mentorship Award: Baltimore School System (Woodlawn High School)
1999 The APA (American Psychiatric Association) Bruno Lima Humanitarian
Award for Disaster Psychiatry
2000 2000 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
2000 ‘Woman of the Year’: American Biographical Society
2000 Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
2000 ‘Freddie Award’ for Documentary Video-tape: Recognizing Teenage Depression
2001 Elected Member: American Pediatric Research Society
2003 Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
2005 Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2005 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2006 Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2007 Member: American College of Psychiatrists
2007 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2008 Aster Award: Excellence in Medical Marketing for handbook: Hands-On Approaches in Helping Children Heal from Traumatic Events
2008 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2009 Consumers’ Research Council of America: On the List of “Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists”
2009 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2009 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Therapists”
2009 Advocacy Award "Catchers in the Rye": Scientific Program Committee - Member: American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2010 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2011 Teaching Award: St Elizabeth’s Hospital Training Program, Washington DC
2011 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2012 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2013 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2013 Special Presidential Commendation Award: In recognition of contributions to quality clinical care, training and research in Child Psychiatry. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2014 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2014 The Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for a Distinguished Career in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: for outstanding contributions in teaching, research and care of children and adolescents. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2015 The 2015 IAPA Outstanding Academician Award for outstanding contributions in research, clinical care and dedication to the Indo-American Psychiatric Association (IAPA). Toronto, Canada May 2015
2016 Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2017 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2017 The Child & Adolescent Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award: For extraordinary commitment & dedication to training & education, outstanding leadership, grace and mentorship and contributions that shaped the field of child & Adolescent psychiatry Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC (2017)
2018 The AACAP Woman of the Year Award: Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington DC, October 2017
2019 Outstanding Faculty Award, by the Graduating Class of 2018, Depart of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI
1997 Mentorship Award: Baltimore School System (Woodlawn High School)
1999 The APA (American Psychiatric Association) Bruno Lima Humanitarian
Award for Disaster Psychiatry
2000 2000 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
2000 ‘Woman of the Year’: American Biographical Society
2000 Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
2000 ‘Freddie Award’ for Documentary Video-tape: Recognizing Teenage Depression
2001 Elected Member: American Pediatric Research Society
2003 Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
2005 Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2005 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2006 Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2007 Member: American College of Psychiatrists
2007 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2008 Aster Award: Excellence in Medical Marketing for handbook: Hands-On Approaches in Helping Children Heal from Traumatic Events
2008 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2009 Consumers’ Research Council of America: On the List of “Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists”
2009 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2009 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Therapists”
2009 Advocacy Award "Catchers in the Rye": Scientific Program Committee - Member: American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2010 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2011 Teaching Award: St Elizabeth’s Hospital Training Program, Washington DC
2011 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2012 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2013 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2013 Special Presidential Commendation Award: In recognition of contributions to quality clinical care, training and research in Child Psychiatry. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2014 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2014 The Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for a Distinguished Career in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: for outstanding contributions in teaching, research and care of children and adolescents. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2015 The 2015 IAPA Outstanding Academician Award for outstanding contributions in research, clinical care and dedication to the Indo-American Psychiatric Association (IAPA). Toronto, Canada May 2015
2016 Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2017 Washingtonian Magazine: On the list of “Top Doctors”
2017 The Child & Adolescent Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award: For extraordinary commitment & dedication to training & education, outstanding leadership, grace and mentorship and contributions that shaped the field of child & Adolescent psychiatry Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC (2017)
2018 The AACAP Woman of the Year Award: Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington DC, October 2017
2019 Outstanding Faculty Award, by the Graduating Class of 2018, Depart of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI
Short Biography
Paramjit T. Joshi, M.D. is the Distinguished Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department 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 since September 1999. After graduating from the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana India, she first trained and practiced as a pediatrician. After moving to the United States she completed her training in general and child and adolescent psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she remained on the faculty for over two decades.
She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists (ACP). She has held several national offices at the AACAP, SPCAP and the ABPN – notably President of the Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2006-2008), President of AACAP (2013-2015) and currently Chair of the Board of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (2020-2021).
Dr. Joshi is the recipient of several awards - notably the APA’s Bruno Lima award for outstanding contributions in the care and understanding of disaster psychiatry; The Special Presidential Commendation Award by the APA in recognition of her commitment to quality clinical care, training and research in Child Psychiatry (2013). The (2014) Agnes Purcell McGavin award for a distinguished career in child and adolescent psychiatry by the APA and the 2015 IAPA’s (Indo-American Psychiatric Association) Academician award. She has taught and published extensively on the issues of depression, bipolar disorder, global mental health and childhood trauma.
She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists (ACP). She has held several national offices at the AACAP, SPCAP and the ABPN – notably President of the Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2006-2008), President of AACAP (2013-2015) and currently Chair of the Board of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (2020-2021).
Dr. Joshi is the recipient of several awards - notably the APA’s Bruno Lima award for outstanding contributions in the care and understanding of disaster psychiatry; The Special Presidential Commendation Award by the APA in recognition of her commitment to quality clinical care, training and research in Child Psychiatry (2013). The (2014) Agnes Purcell McGavin award for a distinguished career in child and adolescent psychiatry by the APA and the 2015 IAPA’s (Indo-American Psychiatric Association) Academician award. She has taught and published extensively on the issues of depression, bipolar disorder, global mental health and childhood trauma.
Publications
45. Benedetto Vitiello, Mark A. Riddle, Gayane Yenokyan, David A. Axelson, Karen D. Wagner, Paramjit Joshi, John T. Walkup, Joan Luby, Boris Birmaher, Neal D. Ryan, Graham Emslie,
Adelaide Robb, Rebecca Tillman.: Treatment Moderators and Predictors of Outcome in the Treatment of Early Age Mania Study (TEAM). Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry Volume 51: 9 (867-878) September 2012
46. Richa Maheshwari & Paramjit Joshi: Assessment, Referral and Treatment of Suicidal Adolescents. Pediatric Annals, 41:12 (515-519) December 2012
47. Paramjit T. Joshi: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services: Challenges & Opportunities. JAMA Psychiatry, November 27, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3193.
48. Paramjit T. Joshi: Presidential Address: Partnering for the World’s Children. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry, Vol 53. Issue1, (3-8), January 1914
49. Paramjit T Joshi, Roger J Packer and Kurt D Newman: Improving Children’s Mental Health Care: A Call to Action. Pediat Therapeut 2014, 5:1
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0665.1000221
50. Nassan M, Croarkin PE, Luby JL, Veldic M, Joshi PT, McElroy SL, Post RM, Walkup JT, Cercy K, Geske JR, Wagner KD, Cuellar-Barboza AB, Casuto L, Lavebratt C, Schalling M, Jensen PS, Biernacka JM, Frye MA:.Association of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Val66Met Polymorphism With Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar Disord. 2015 Sep;17(6):645-52. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12323.
51. Walkup T. John, Wagner D. Karen, Miller L, Yenokayn Gayane, Luby Joan, Joshi T. Paramjit, Axelson David, Robb Adelaide, Salpekar Jay, Wolf Dwight, Birmaher Boris, Vitiello Bennedetto, Riddle Mark: The Treatment of Early Age Mania: Outcomes for Partial and Non-responders to Initial Treatment. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry. Vol 54:12 (1008-1019) December 2015
52. Jay A Salpekar, Paramjit T Joshi, David A Axelson, Shauna P Reinblatt, Gayane Yenokyan, Abanti Sanyal, John Walkup, Benedetto Vitiello, Joan Luby, Karen Dineen Wagner, Nasima Nusrat, Mark A Riddle: Suicidality and Depression Outcomes in the Treatment of Early Age Mania Study. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry. Vol 54:12 (999-1007) December 2015
53. Croarkin, P., Luby, J., Cercy, K., Geske, J., Veldic, M., Simonson, M., Joshi, P., Wagner, K., Walkup, J., Nassan, M., Cuellar-Barboza, A., Casuto, L., McElroy, S., Jensen, P., Frye, M., & Biernacka, J. (2017). Genetic Risk Score Analysis in Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/JCP.15m10314
54. Ian H. Stanley, M.S, Melanie, A. Hom, Joan Luby, Paramjit Joshi, Karen Dineen Wagner, John Walkup, David Axelson & Thomas E. Joiner: Comorbid Sleep Disorders and Suicide Risk Among Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder, J Psychiatr Res 2017 Dec;95:54-59 doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.07.027. Pubmed #28777984
55. Mary E Duffy, Anna R Gai, Megan L. Rogers, Thomas E Joiner, Joan L Luby, Paramjit T Joshi, Karen D Wagner, Graham J Emslie, John T Walkup & David Axelson: Psychotic symptoms and suicidal ideation in child and adolescent bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorders 2019;00:1-8 (DOI:10.1111/bdi.12789).
56. Michole Deesing, Anna Buttlaire, Arya Nikjoo, Paramjit Joshi: Sexually Predatory Behavior in an Adolescent Female: A Case Report, Journal of Psychiatric Practice (In Press) 2021
57. Michole Deesing, Arya Nikjoo, Anna Buttlaire & Paramjit Joshi: Psychodermatology: A Case of Dermatitis Artefacta in a Young Adolescent (in press) 2021
Adelaide Robb, Rebecca Tillman.: Treatment Moderators and Predictors of Outcome in the Treatment of Early Age Mania Study (TEAM). Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry Volume 51: 9 (867-878) September 2012
46. Richa Maheshwari & Paramjit Joshi: Assessment, Referral and Treatment of Suicidal Adolescents. Pediatric Annals, 41:12 (515-519) December 2012
47. Paramjit T. Joshi: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services: Challenges & Opportunities. JAMA Psychiatry, November 27, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3193.
48. Paramjit T. Joshi: Presidential Address: Partnering for the World’s Children. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry, Vol 53. Issue1, (3-8), January 1914
49. Paramjit T Joshi, Roger J Packer and Kurt D Newman: Improving Children’s Mental Health Care: A Call to Action. Pediat Therapeut 2014, 5:1
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0665.1000221
50. Nassan M, Croarkin PE, Luby JL, Veldic M, Joshi PT, McElroy SL, Post RM, Walkup JT, Cercy K, Geske JR, Wagner KD, Cuellar-Barboza AB, Casuto L, Lavebratt C, Schalling M, Jensen PS, Biernacka JM, Frye MA:.Association of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Val66Met Polymorphism With Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar Disord. 2015 Sep;17(6):645-52. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12323.
51. Walkup T. John, Wagner D. Karen, Miller L, Yenokayn Gayane, Luby Joan, Joshi T. Paramjit, Axelson David, Robb Adelaide, Salpekar Jay, Wolf Dwight, Birmaher Boris, Vitiello Bennedetto, Riddle Mark: The Treatment of Early Age Mania: Outcomes for Partial and Non-responders to Initial Treatment. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry. Vol 54:12 (1008-1019) December 2015
52. Jay A Salpekar, Paramjit T Joshi, David A Axelson, Shauna P Reinblatt, Gayane Yenokyan, Abanti Sanyal, John Walkup, Benedetto Vitiello, Joan Luby, Karen Dineen Wagner, Nasima Nusrat, Mark A Riddle: Suicidality and Depression Outcomes in the Treatment of Early Age Mania Study. Journal of the Am Acad of Child & Adoles Psychiatry. Vol 54:12 (999-1007) December 2015
53. Croarkin, P., Luby, J., Cercy, K., Geske, J., Veldic, M., Simonson, M., Joshi, P., Wagner, K., Walkup, J., Nassan, M., Cuellar-Barboza, A., Casuto, L., McElroy, S., Jensen, P., Frye, M., & Biernacka, J. (2017). Genetic Risk Score Analysis in Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.4088/JCP.15m10314
54. Ian H. Stanley, M.S, Melanie, A. Hom, Joan Luby, Paramjit Joshi, Karen Dineen Wagner, John Walkup, David Axelson & Thomas E. Joiner: Comorbid Sleep Disorders and Suicide Risk Among Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder, J Psychiatr Res 2017 Dec;95:54-59 doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.07.027. Pubmed #28777984
55. Mary E Duffy, Anna R Gai, Megan L. Rogers, Thomas E Joiner, Joan L Luby, Paramjit T Joshi, Karen D Wagner, Graham J Emslie, John T Walkup & David Axelson: Psychotic symptoms and suicidal ideation in child and adolescent bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorders 2019;00:1-8 (DOI:10.1111/bdi.12789).
56. Michole Deesing, Anna Buttlaire, Arya Nikjoo, Paramjit Joshi: Sexually Predatory Behavior in an Adolescent Female: A Case Report, Journal of Psychiatric Practice (In Press) 2021
57. Michole Deesing, Arya Nikjoo, Anna Buttlaire & Paramjit Joshi: Psychodermatology: A Case of Dermatitis Artefacta in a Young Adolescent (in press) 2021
Professional Societies
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Association
American College of Psychiatrists
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Last updated
11/10/2021
11/10/2021