Dr. Bhatt graduated from the University of Missouri Kansas City’s prestigious 6-year combined BA/MD program in 2017. During medical school she served as clinic manager and Executive Director of the Sojourner Health Clinic, UMKC’s student-run free health clinic. During medical school she received awards for her exceptional commitment to the Sojourner Health Clinic and honors for her research on developing innovative programs in the clinic, which now serve as a national model.

 

Dr. Bhatt is currently a third year psychiatry resident at the UMKC/CBM Psychiatry Residency Program. Her clinical interests include working with individuals with severe mental illness. During her residency training, she has received numerous awards, including the Resident of the Year award, induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and earned a national American Psychiatric Association Award for Best Poster in Patient Oriented Care for her research on suicide rates following changes in Missouri’s firearm laws.

 

Dr. Bhatt currently serves as a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Adolescent Committee and is co-chair of the Early Psychosis Committee. She is also a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). She will be completing child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of California Davis beginning in July 2021. In her free time, she enjoys meditation, yoga, painting, playing tennis, and hiking with her dogs.


Presentation(s): 

Missouri’s Firearm Laws and Suicide and Homicide by Firearms in Missouri