User:Pratik Bahekar

Pratik Bahekar, MBBS
Contact: pbahekar@wikidoc.org drbahekar@yahoo.com

Current Position

• Postdoc Research Fellow at PERFUSE Study Group, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
• Associate Editor-In-Chief for WikiDoc.org

Education

• Medical Doctor M.B.B.S. degree from MUHS - India
  
• EEG and Neurophysiology, Cleveland Clinic.

Work Experience

• Research scholar at Harvard medical school
• Resident Doctor, Amrut Hospital, India (2010-2013)
• Shadowship under Solomen Zaara, DO, Medical Director of Child and Adolscent psychiatry department, Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and Case School of Medicine (2013)
• Shadowship under Robert Rowney, DO, Medical Director of Mood disorder unit, Cleveland Clinic (2013)
• Shadowship under Mini Bowers Smith, MD Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic (2013)
• Shadowship under Amit Mohan, MD, Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic (2013)
• Volunteer for Associate of Medical Consultant, Mumbai, India; Lions Club, India, participating in health awareness campaigns, free clinics.
• Participation in Pulse Polio Campaign of WHO (2010)

Skills

• Motivational Interviewing
• Proactive Intervention
• Medical Errors and Safety in Behavioral Health
• Suicide Management: Adolescent, Manipulative, Elderly
• Crisis Intervention and Verbal De-escalation
• Behavioral Health Advance Directives and Crisis Plans

Interests

• Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent psychiatry
• Clinical Research
• Randomized Control Trials
• Community Psychiatry
• Neuropsychiatry

Languages

• English: Fluent in speaking and writing
• Marathi: Fluent in speaking and writing
• Hindi: Fluent in speaking and writing