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N. Ruth Case, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. N. Ruth Case is a board-certified psychiatrist and lifestyle medicine physician with Stanford Health Care. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Case specializes in lifestyle psychiatry, which blends traditional psychiatric care with evidence-based lifestyle interventions. In addition to medication management, she offers her adult patients a range of lifestyle support services, including exercise therapy, nutritional counseling, stress management, and sleep optimization. She is dedicated to providing integrative care that supports patients in all aspects of their lives that impact their mental health.
Dr. Case’s research interests include integrating lifestyle interventions into psychiatric practice. She has presented her work at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association and at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Congress. She has lectured on the importance of lifestyle psychiatrists following the same guidelines they share with their patients for optimizing physical and mental health. Dr. Case has also published articles in Stanford Medicine magazine and discussed her work on State of the Human, the Stanford Storytelling Project podcast.
Dr. Case is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association. -
Austen Brooks Casey
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioAusten Brooks Casey, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (advisor: Boris Dov Heifets, MD, PhD). He originates from western North Carolina, and has had a long-standing interest in drug discovery for major depression and schizophrenia, which was invigorated by initial coursework in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Austen trained at Northeastern University (advisor: Raymond G. Booth, PhD) where he studied the medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of novel ligands targeting serotonergic G protein-coupled receptors. Currently, he is investigating neural circuits activated by psychedelic drugs, with the long-term goal of using modern techniques in neuroscience to complement drug design efforts toward the development of novel antidepressant and antipsychotic medications.
