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Niranjan S. Karnik, MD, PhD

Karnik
The Cynthia Oudejans Harris, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College
Associate Dean for Community Behavioral Health, Rush Medical College
Vice Chair for Innovation, Department of Psychiatry
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

Population health, mobile technologies, systems-level interventions, homelessness, military & veterans,  PTSD, substance use disorders, bioethics, cultural psychiatry, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ health.

Contact Info:

1645 W. Jackson Blvd.
Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 273-0185
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: Center for Veterans and their Families. 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 is a senior associate editor for Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 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
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. Zalta AK, Bui E, Karnik NS, Held P, Laifer LM, Sager JC, Zou D, Rauch PK, Simon NM, Pollack MH, Ohye B. Examining the Relationship Between Parent and Child Psychopathology in Treatment-Seeking Veterans. Child psychiatry and human development. 2017; PubMed [journal] PMID: 28660407
2. Mann A, Li A, Radwan K, Karnik NS, Keenan K. Factors Associated with Management of Teen Aggression: Child Psychiatric Clinical Decision Making. Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology. 2017; 27(5):445-450. PubMed [journal] PMID: 26784955
3. 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
4. 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. PubMed [journal] PMID: 28481610
5. Neuroethics: defining the issues Karnik NS. 2nd ed. Illes J, Hossain S, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2017. Chapter 4, Vulnerability, youth and homelessness: ethical considerations on the roles of technology in the lives of adolescents and young adults; p.70-79. My Bibliography [book] 
 

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Grants

Homeless Youth Clinic Prescription Coverage Program   03/01/2018 – 02/28/2019
Blowtiz Ridgeway Foundation
Principal Investigator

Welcome Back Veterans: MLB/McCormick Foundation      01/01/2018 ¬ 12/31/2020
Road Home Program, Round 3 Grant
Principal Investigator

UL1-TR002398 (Solway, Cohn & Jacobs)            09/06/2017 – 06/30/2022        
National Center for Advancing Translational Science    
ITM 2.0: Advancing Translational Science in Metropolitan Chicago
Role: Director, Center for Underserved Populations & Innovative Interventions (CUPII)

Illinois Department of Human Services (Karnik)        07/01/2017 – 06/30/2019        
Illinois Opioid-STR Program                   
Role: Program Director
This funding provides support to expand opioid screening and interventions including medication assisted therapy at Rush University Medical Center.

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.

R01-AI120700 (Schneider)                    07/01/2015 – 06/30/2020     
National Institute for Drug Abuse/NIH
Accelerating PrEP Diffusion through Network Change Agents
Role:    Co-Investigator
The proposed intervention will utilize bridging network members within a large young Black MSM Facebook network to accelerate the diffusion of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) knowledge and early adoption in this same network. If successful, this project has the potential to translate a highly efficacious biomedical intervention into an impactful one in a sub-population at highest risk for HIV infection in the United States.

Wounded Warrior Project      06/25/2015 – 06/24/2018
Road Home Program: Center for Veterans & their Families 
Role:    Medical Director
This program will expand the Road Home Program’s outpatient clinic and develop a new intensive outpatient treatment program. The Road Home Program focuses on the treatment of PTSD, mood & affective disorders, military sexual trauma, substance use disorders, and traumatic brain injury using evidenced-based modalities and family-centered care.

Invited Presentations
The Kennedy Forum. Young Minds: Building resilience and well being for the next generation. Panelist: Harnessing Technology to Better Youth Mental Health. Chicago, Illinois. December 6, 2016.
 
New e-mental health technology in the treatment of adolescents hard to reach for therapy. Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Basel, Switzerland. May 31, 2017.
 
Use of mobile devices to work with vulnerable populations (L’utilisation des dispositifs mobiles pour travailler avec des populations vulnérables). Matinée du Pôle de psychiatrie de l’enfant et l’adolescent, Université de Lorraine, France. July 6, 2017.
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