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  • Richa Bhatia, MD

    Richa Bhatia, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

    BioDr. Bhatia is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a dual Board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, specializing in treating anxiety disorders. Her work has been cited in Time magazine and Scientific American, and her professional opinions have been quoted in media such as CNBC, The Guardian, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News Bay Area, WUCF-TV (PBS), and others. Dr. Bhatia served as President-Elect of Northern California Psychiatric Society. She is an avid advocate of improving mental health awareness and reducing the stigma surrounding psychiatric conditions and treatments. For her work in this arena, she was awarded the 2021 Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and the Marian Butterfield award in 2018. Her other roles include serving as Section Editor for Current Opinion in Psychiatry, a Wolters Kluwer journal, for the last 7 years. She also served as Associate Editor of Current Psychiatry for 6 years. She is often invited to give talks at national, regional and local conferences and organizations.

    She values the academic as well as the humanistic aspects of psychiatry. During her psychiatry residency training from 2007 to 2010, she scored between 94th and 98th percentile among US psychiatry resident physicians. She takes a whole-person approach, utilizing active, empathic listening and aimed at understanding the biological, psychological, social, and other factors affecting an individual’s mental health. She integrates medication management (where needed) with psychotherapy. Her psychotherapy approach is informed by various evidence-based psychotherapies such as psychodynamic therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness-based, compassion-focused interventions. Dr. Bhatia’s other professional interests include ruling out medical conditions mimicking psychiatric disorders, diagnostic errors, mindfulness, bullying prevention, and compassion and empathy cultivation.

  • Ritwik Bhatia, MD

    Ritwik Bhatia, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology

    BioDr. Bhatia is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist with Stanford Health Care and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurocritical Care at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Dr. Bhatia joined Stanford in 2024 after completing Neurocritical Care fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He provides critical care to patients following acute neurological injuries, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, intracranial hemorrhage, and other disorders affecting the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. He strives to provide excellent patient care in multidisciplinary teams. He enjoys teaching and is the physician lead for simulation for Advanced Practice Providers in Neurocritical Care. He currently serves as the Unit Based Medical Director for the Neurosciences ICU at Stanford Hospital, leading the unit's initiatives in quality and patient safety.

    Dr. Bhatia’s research interests include longitudinal outcomes for patients with moderate-severe acute acquired brain injury requiring intensive care unit admission. He is developing a neurointensive care recovery clinic at Stanford Healthcare to follow these patients through transitions of care and support neurorecovery.

    Dr. Bhatia has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Neurology, Journal of Neurosurgery, and Stroke. He has presented at national meetings for the American Academy of Neurology, Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, and American Epilepsy Society. He has served as a guideline ambassador for the American Heart Association and is a member of the Neurorecovery Clinic Section of the Neurocritical Care Society. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family and friends.

  • Siddharth M. Bhatia

    Siddharth M. Bhatia

    Undergraduate, Computer Science

    BioUndergraduate studying Computer Science!

  • Ritu Bhatnagar

    Ritu Bhatnagar

    Senior Laboratory Counsel, Legal Services

    BioRitu Bhatnagar is a Senior Laboratory Counsel, representing Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory managed and operated by Stanford.

    Prior to coming to Stanford, Ms. Bhatnagar served as the Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Appirio Inc., a cloud solutions implementation company, where she oversaw the company’s worldwide legal, governance and compliance-related matters. Ms. Bhatnagar previously was a technology transactions attorney at the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins, LLP, where her practice focused on general business counseling, intellectual property, commercial contracts, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.

    Ms. Bhatnagar graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree (honors and distinction, Phi Beta Kappa). She holds her law degree from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. After graduating from law school, Ms. Bhatnagar served as a judicial law clerk for the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Boston.

    Ms. Bhatnagar is a member of the State Bar of California.