Parnika P. Saxena

Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor & Program Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/parnika-saxena

Dr. Parnika Saxena is a board-certified psychiatrist specialising in geriatric mental health, resistant depression, and advocacy. She is a Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director at Stanford University, leading clinical, research, and legislative efforts to improve psychiatric care.

Expert Bio

Dr. Parnika P. Saxena completed her residency at St Elizabeth's Medical Center (affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine) in Massachusetts and a clinical geriatric fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also worked as a research fellow in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Mclean Hospital (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) and completed a psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellowship from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.   Her primary research interests lie in pharmacological and interventional treatments for resistant depression. At Stanford, she works on the inpatient service, outpatient geropsychiatry clinic and the electroconvulsive therapy service. She also serves as the program director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship.   In addition to her clinical and research interests, Dr. Saxena is passionate about patient advocacy and promoting mental health legislative changes to benefit patient care. To that end, she has testified in state senate hearings as a physician representative of organizations like the Northern California Psychiatric Association and American Psychiatric Association.   Dr. Saxena is board-certified in general and geriatric psychiatry.