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Niranjan S. Karnik, MD, PhD

Karnik
The Cynthia Oudejans Harris, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush Medical College
Associate Dean for Community Behavioral Health, Rush Medical College
Co-Director, Institute for Translational Medicine KL2 Training Program
Education
Child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship, Stanford University/LPCH, 2007
General psychiatry residency, Stanford University, 2005
PhD, Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2002
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Research Areas

Systems-level interventions, mobile technologies, community psychiatry, homelessness, military & veterans, PTSD, substance misuse, bioethics, cultural psychiatry, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ health.

Contact Info:

1645 W. Jackson Blvd.
Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 942-8085
Fax: (312) 942-4224
niranjan_karnik@rush.edu
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Biography
Niranjan S. Karnik, MD, PhD is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, MD, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College and a conjoint faculty member in the Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing at the Rush College of Nursing. He is Associate Dean for Community Behavioral Health at Rush Medical College and is charged with working with community partners on the westside of Chicago to develop a strategy to address mental health and substance use needs in our local communities. At Rush, Dr. Karnik is a Senior Advisor for The Road Home Program: The National Center of Excellence for Veterans and their Families at Rush . His research focuses on community-based interventions for high-risk youth with psychiatric and substance use disorders. In the past, he has worked with refugee children on the Pakistan-Afghan border, street children in India, foster youth in Central Illinois, and incarcerated youth in California. He worked at a youth homeless shelter in San Francisco and is continuing this work with homeless youth in Chicago. He is presently a PI or Co-PI on grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Robert McCormick Foundation, Michael Reese Health Trust, and the Blowitz Ridgeway Foundation. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Children’s Health Care, Neuropsychiatrie – Neuropsychiatry, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
Honors and Activities
2019             Postdoctoral Mentor of the Year, Rush University
2017-2018   Outstanding Mentor Award, Am. Acad. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2016             The Lori Ann Roscetti Annual Memorial Lecture on Ethical & Humanitarian Issues in Medicine
2015-2016   Excellence in Community Award, Rush University Medical Center
2011-2014   Outstanding Mentor Award, Am. Acad. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
2014             Marquis Who’s Who in America, 68th Edition
2012             Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
2011              Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 8th Edition
2010             Guide to America’s Top Psychiatrists, Consumers’ Res. Council of Am.
 
 
 
 
Publications

1. Afshar M, Phillips A, Karnik N, Mueller J, To D, Gonzalez R, Price R, Cooper R, Joyce C, Dligach D. Natural language processing and machine learning to identify alcohol misuse from the electronic health record in trauma patients: development and internal validation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA. 2019; 26(3):254-261. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30602031

2. Horwitz AG, Held P, Klassen BJ, Karnik NS, Pollack MH, Zalta AK. Posttraumatic Cognitions and Suicidal Ideation among Veterans receiving PTSD Treatment. Cognitive therapy and research. 2018; 42(5):711-719. NIHMSID: NIHMS971589 PubMed [journal] PMID: 30505042, PMCID: PMC6261529

3. Winiarski DA, Engel ML, Karnik NS, Brennan PA. Early Life Stress and Childhood Aggression: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Callousness and Stress Reactivity. Child psychiatry and human development. 2018; 49(5):730-739. NIHMSID: NIHMS973974 PubMed [journal] PMID: 29435696, PMCID: PMC6089667

4. Zalta AK, Held P, Smith DL, Klassen BJ, Lofgreen AM, Normand PS, Brennan MB, Rydberg TS, Boley RA, Pollack MH, Karnik NS. Evaluating patterns and predictors of symptom change during a three-week intensive outpatient treatment for veterans with PTSD. BMC psychiatry. 2018; 18(1):242. PubMed [journal] PMID: 30053860,
PMCID: PMC6063006

5. Hock LE, Karnik NS. Should Clinicians Medicate against Structural Violence? Potential Iatrogenic Risks and the Need for Social Interventions. AMA journal of ethics. 2017; 19(8):753-761. PubMed [journal] PMID: 28846515

6. Adkins EC, Zalta AK, Boley RA, Glover A, Karnik NS, Schueller SM. Exploring the potential of technology-based mental health services for homeless youth: A qualitative study. Psychological services. 2017; 14(2):238-245. NIHMSID: NIHMS881019 PubMed [journal] PMID: 28481610, PMCID: PMC5540313

7. Carrier F, Banayan D, Boley R, Karnik N. Ethical challenges in developing drugs for psychiatric disorders. Progress in neurobiology. 2017; 152:58-69. PubMed [journal] PMID: 28268181

 

 

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Grants

UG1-DA049467 (Karnik & Pollack)     06/15/2019 – 02/29/2024
National Institute of Drug Abuse/NIH
Great Lakes Node of the Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network
This application will establish the Great Lakes Node of the Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network. The creation of this node will help facilitate research on substance and opioid misuse which are key components of NIH and federal government strategy to reduce the mortality and morbidity associated with the current opioid and substance epidemics. This node will support clinical trials relevant to the epidemics and also advance research in novel models of care, data analytics, mobile interventions and training.

Illinois Department of Human Services (Karnik)        07/01/2017 – 06/30/2020        
Illinois Opioid-STR/SOR Program                   
Role: Program Director
This funding provides support to expand opioid screening and interventions including medication assisted therapy at Rush University Medical Center. This program also provides training of providers from across the State of Illinois.

R01-DA041071 (Garofalo & Karnik)                12/01/2015 – 11/30/2020      
National Institute of Drug Abuse/NIH            
Employing eSBI in a Community-based HIV Testing Environment for At-risk Youth
Role:    Co-Principal Investigator
This study aims to test the use of electronic Screening and Brief Intervention (eSBI) for alcohol and other substance use in an HIV at-risk population.

Invited Presentations

Homeless Youth. National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), NASMHPD & International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) Joint Meeting, Washington, DC. September 13, 2019

Innovations in Data Science for Addiction Research and Clinical Trials. NIDA Clinical Trials Network Workgroup on Data Science. National Institute of Health, Rockville, MD. September 18-19, 2019

Addictions & Trauma-Informed Care: Hope and Healing for our Nation’s Veterans. National Webinar hosted by the Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives/IEA/OS, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. October 10, 2019

University of California, Los Angeles. Stress, Trauma & Resilience (STAR) Seminar. Division of Population Behavioral Health. Presentation: Developing a Framework for Lay-Person Interventions in Community Settings: An Interactive Workshop. Los Angeles, California. February 19, 2020

University of California, Los Angeles. Semel Institute Grand Rounds: Expanding Care in the U.S.: Developing a Framework for Lay-Person Interventions in Community Settings. Los Angeles, California. March 3, 2020

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