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Nataly Beck, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioAs co-founder and co-director of La Clínica Latina, Dr. Nataly Beck is a psychiatrist who is passionate about providing culturally sensitive and compassionate care to patients, especially to those from the Latino community. Originally from Lima, Peru, she immigrated to the US with her family at a young age. She graduated from Yale School of Medicine and completed her psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After her first year as an attending at Yale, she began her work at Stanford where she worked in the INSPIRE Clinic for individuals experiencing psychosis and then co-founded La Clínica Latina. She loves the Bay Area and her interests include salsa dancing, playing piano, and spending time with her family.
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Wendy J. Bernstein
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioSenior Community Psychiatrist, Wellness Equity Alliance, Medical Director, Project ECHO and Telemedicine for Severe Mental Illness Track to support the Mental Health of SGBV survivors in Democratic Republic of Congo project. Past Associate Medical Director at Casa del Sol, specialty mental health clinic of La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland California from 2013 to July 2021. Previously at Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, from 2000 to 2013, and Contra Costa County Older Adults Clinics from 1995-2000. Graduate of McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada, and Boston University Psychiatry Residency. Interests include global health, community mental health, Latinx and underserved populations, women's health, and elder care.
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Mahendra T. Bhati
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Professor, NeurosurgeryBioDr. Bhati is an interventional psychiatrist with expertise in psychiatric diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and neuromodulation. He completed postdoctoral research studying language abnormalities and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) evoked potentials in schizophrenia. He was a principal investigator for the DSM-5 academic field trials, and his research experiences included roles in the first controlled clinical trials of TMS and deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment of depression. He was the founding Chief of Interventional Psychiatry at Stanford where he performs consultations and provides pharmacological and neuromodulatory treatments. His current research interests include studying magnetic resonance imaging and augmented reality to target TMS, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for treatment-resistant depression, DBS for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression, responsive neurostimulation (RNS) for treatment of impulse and fear-related disorders, and focused ultrasound (FUS) for treatment-resistant OCD and depression. Dr. Bhati seeks to train more providers in mental healthcare and founded a clinical fellowship in Interventional Psychiatry at Stanford.
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Apurva Bhatt
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioApurva Bhatt, M.D., is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her role spans the General Adult Psychiatry Division, Child Psychiatry Division, and Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Division.
Dr. Bhatt specializes in early psychosis evaluation and treatment. She is the Director of the Child INSPIRE clinic and currently provides clinical care in both the Lucile Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital Child INSPIRE early psychosis clinic and the Stanford Health Care INSPIRE clinic. She contributes to early psychosis program development in California (through EPI-CAL as the Psychiatric Provider Team Lead) and nationally (through PEPPNET). She is also co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Adolescent Psychiatry Committee and Early Psychosis work group.
Dr. Bhatt provides school clinical consultations for the Redwood City School District through the Stanford Redwood City Sequoia School Mental Health Collaborative. She also provides clinical consultations to schools in the Los Altos School district, and supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows providing consultation to Los Altos, Redwood City, Palo Alto, and Mountain View schools.
Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include early psychosis measurement instruments in pediatric populations, Asian American and South Asian youth mental health, and prevention of youth suicide by firearm. She enjoys teaching and mentoring students and trainees, and currently is a mentor through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association's FLIPP program. -
Brandon Birckhead MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioBrandon Birckhead, MD, is an assistant clinical professor in Stanford psychiatry department. He is an attending in the virtual reality and immersive technology (VRIT) clinic. He completed his psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also was the first clinician to be hired at Apple as a VR/AR expert for the Vision Pro.
Dr. Birckhead earned his Bachelor of Biological Sciences from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He then obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, where he also contributed to the development of a new medical course on the science of healthcare delivery.
Dr. Birckhead spent three years as a project scientist at Cedars-Sinai in Dr. Brennan Spiegel’s lab, co-leading large clinical trials on at-home VR therapy for chronic pain. He also co-directed the Virtual Medicine conference—one of the largest in the field—and was lead author of a set of trial recommendations for clinical research in therapeutic VR. He further specialized in Health Delivery Science, earning a Master's degree from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his capstone project focused on the cost-effectiveness of remote rehabilitation for total knee replacement using wearable sensors.
Throughout his career, Dr. Birckhead has held several influential roles, including Project Scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he helped design a virtual reality therapy clinic and supported VR pain reduction treatments. He also served as a consultant for AppliedVR, contributing to a pivotal randomized trial that achieved the first FDA breakthrough designation for a self-administered VR intervention for chronic low back pain.
Dr. Birckhead's leadership extends to his tenure as the Founding Chair of the VR/AR Association Digital Health Committee and Chair of VR-CORE, where he authored the first set of guidelines for immersive technology clinical trials along with Dr. Kim Bullock who is the director of the VRIT clinic here at Stanford. His commitment to advancing medical immersive technology research is evident in his numerous publications and presentations at prestigious conferences and webinars.
In addition to his academic and research endeavors, Dr. Birckhead is actively involved in teaching and mentoring. He has facilitated discussions and evaluated projects at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University.
