Professor | Professor and Chair; Stanton Sharp Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, O’Donnell Brain Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Tarek Rajji MD

tarek.rajji@utsouthwestern.edu

214-648-4079

214-648-4947

Accessible models of care
acquired brain injury
Acute Care Services
Addictions
ADHD
adjustment to illness
Adult Diagnostic Process of Autistic Adults
Adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities
Alcohol, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Infectious Disease
Anti-racism education
Art and Humanities as a way to enhance care, foster self-reflection and improve clinical encounters.
Art and Humanities as a way to enhance care, foster self-reflection and improve clinical encounters. Interdisciplinary medical education.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications in medicine
ASD and neurodevelopmental disorders
Autism
Autism and ADHD in the elderly
BDD
Behavioural Interventions
behavioural testing
Biological Psychiatry
biomarker development
Biomarkers of depression treatment response in late-life depression
bipolar
borderline personality disorder
Brain Stimulation
brain-behaviour relationships
Brain–mind–body interface disorders, including functional neurological disorder, persisting symptoms after concussion, and chronic pain
Bringing together physical health and mental health by collaborative working
burn out
Cannabinoids in dementia
caregivers
Cerebral Hemodynamics and Metabolism
Child and adolescent eating disorders
Child and Youth Mental Health
Child welfare
Circuit and molecular adaptations underlying relapse vulnerability
Clinical neuroscience of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
Clinical outcome research of CBT interventions
Clinical Psychiatry
Clinical research in Chronic Pain and Depression; Stigma of Mental illness
Cognitive outcomes in mental health disorders
cognitive recovery
Cognitive resilience and brain structure in aging and depression
cognitive testing
Collaborative Care
Community Development
Community-Based Research
Community-engaged research
Concurrent Disorders
Concurrent disorders in youth
Consultation-liaison and medical psychiatry
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Contingency management
Coroner-based research
cultural dimensions of psychiatry
Curriculum Development
DBT
Dementia
Digital mental health
digital technologies
Disability insurance and impact on recovery; Acute care psychiatry and best practices; Medical psychiatry and somatic symptom disorders
Disaster Psychiatry
Dissociation
Dr. Kaster’s research interests involve the clinical application of neurostimulation techniques for severe psychiatric illness with a focus on both clinical trials and population-level observational studies.
Dr.Malick’s main area of interest in research and teaching focuses on improving care for medically-ill, racialized and marginalized populations.
Dual diagnosis
Early Intervention for Psychosis
Eating disorder prevention
Eating Disorders
Education
Educational research and medical application of artificial intelligence
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Elopement
Emergency Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry and Treatment resistant depression
Emotional Education and Primary Prevention in Mental Health
Epidemiology
Equity
Evaluation of hospital- and community-based mental health services
fear of cancer recurrence
fertility distress
First Nations Health
Forensic and addiction psychiatry, social determinants of health and public policy
forensic mental health
Forensic psychiatry
frontotemporal dementia
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Gender Identity
Genetics and blood biochemistry in mental illness
Genetics and genomics of brain diseases
Global Health
Guideline development
Harm Reduction
Harm reduction education research
Health Equity
Health professions education research
Health services research
Health systems and services research
Health workforce and distribution
Housing
Human-Computer Interaction
Implementation science
including online interventions and group treatments.
Increasing clozapine prescribing practices
Independent Psychiatric Assessment
Indigenous Mental Health
Innovative treatments for psychological trauma and serious medical illness
Inpatient and acute care psychiatry
Integration practices in Psychedelic Therapy.
Interdisciplinary medical education.
internet-based assessment/treatment
Interprofessional Practice
Interventions with Adults with Neurodevelopmental Conditions and their Caregivers
intimate partner violence
Ketamine Therapy for Psychiatric Disorder
Kinetic Modelling
Knowledge Mobilization
Knowledge Translation
Late life depression
Late life mood and anxiety disorders
Late-life depression
Lived Experience
Lived experience engagement
Machine learning and biostatistical methods in psychiatry
Media studies
Medical education
Medical education and pedagogy
Medical Education and Youth Mental Health
Medical Education, Improving health quality for patients as it relates to access and equity
Mental Health and Addictions
Mental health and capacity law
Mental Health and Substance Use Policy
Mental Health Equity
Mental health of children with medical complexity and their families. Interdisciplinary medical education
mental health policy
Mental Health systems
Mental health, substance use, critical and palliative care, surgery
Mentoring
Metabolic parameters and their effects on treatment response in depressive episodes.
mHealth
Mindfulness Meditation in the Perinatal Population
Minority stress model and its impact on geriatric psychiatry, 2SLGBTQI+ mental health
Mixed and participatory methods
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Mood and anxiety disorders
mood disorders
Natural Language Processing
Network-based mechanisms of neuropsychiatric illness
Neurobiology of motivation and addiction
Neurobiology of psychosis and related disorders
Neurocognitive disorders
neuroimaging
Neuroimaging and Biomarkers of Mood Disorders
Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience
Neuroinformatics
Neuromodulation
Neuronal Trafficking
Neuropsychiatric features of neurological disorders
Neuropsychiatric symptoms of neurocognitive disorders
Neuropsychiatry of neurodegenerative disorders
Neurostimulation
non-invasive brain stimulation
Non-invasive PET Imaging
Novel therapeutic modalities for psychiatric disorders
OCD
Organelle Stress
organizational psychology
Participatory Action Research
Patient Safety
Patient-Oriented and Community-Engaged Research
patient-oriented and participatory research
patient-oriented research
Personality Disorders
PET and MRI Brain Imaging
PET Quantification
PET Quantification Methodology Development
Pharmacoepidemiology
Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacological treatment of substance use disorders
Placebo effects
Population-level genomic studies
Post Graduate Education
Prevention strategies for young people experiencing psychosis
Proteostasis
Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy for the treatment of mental health and substance use.
psychiatric assessment/intervention
Psychiatric conditions
Psychiatric disorders in HIV-infected patients and service delivery for patients with complex medical illness.
Psychoimmunology
Psychopharmacology
Psychosis
Psychosocial intervention for concurrent psychotic spectrum and substance use disorders.
psychosocial oncology
Psychotherapy Resilience
Psychotic disorders
Qualitative research
Qualitative, narrative, ethnographic and participatory research methodologies
Quality Improvement
Quality of care
Research interest in Schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Rural Health
Schizophrenia
School-based interventions
Serotonergic control of behaviour
Service user and family education research
Sex and Gender Differences
Simulation in Psychiatry education – CCPS Model
Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders
Sleep Medicine
Smoking Cessation
Social cognition
Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Mental Health and Substance Use
Social life of dominant concepts in healthcare and education
Social media
Sociology and Philosophy of Mental Health
sociology and philosophy of science
Somatoform and Functional Disorders
Statistical Genetics
Stimulant use disorder
stress and coping
Student Health
Substance use disorder
substance use, notably cannabis and methamphetamines
Suicide Prevention
Suicide-prevention
Technology and knowledge translation
Technology Enabled Collaborative Care
The intersections of psychosis and psychedelic use.
Theory-based Prevention and Health Promotion
Therapeutic Brain Stimulation
Tobacco Use Disorder
Transcultural psychiatry
Transdiagnostic psychopathology and the endocannabinoid system
Transitional aged youth
Translational and rehabilitation-informed approaches to complex neuropsychiatric syndromes
Trauma-informed care
trauma/PTSD
Traumatic brain injury
Treatment expectations, placebo and nocebo effects, and predictors of treatment response
Treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
Treatment resistance
Treatment resistant depression
uncertainty
Urgent/Emergency Psychiatry
Virtual care
Vulnerable Populations
women and gender diverse populations
young adults
Youth Justice
Youth mental health
Youth raised in at-risk environments

Faculty Members

Charlotte Probst PhD

Lara Propst

Rachel Ptashny

Jennifer Pytyck HBSc, MD, FRCPC

Adam Quastel

Susan Quesnel MSc, MD, FRCPC

Lena Quilty

Ashwati Raghunath MD, FRCPC

Shafiqur Rahman

Tarek Rajji MD

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