Niranjan Karnik, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Section and Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College
Dr. Karnik is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Community, Systems and Mental Health Nursing at the Rush College of Nursing. At Rush University, he is also Medical Director of the Road Home Program: Center for Veterans and their Families, and Director of the Rush University Life Course SBIRT Training Program. He concurrently serves as an Associate Faculty Member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on community-based interventions for high-risk populations with psychiatric and substance use disorders. In the past, he has worked with refugee children on the Pakistan-Afghan border, street children in India, foster youth in Central Illinois, and incarcerated youth in California. He worked at a youth homeless shelter in San Francisco and is continuing this work with homeless youth in Chicago. The major focus of his research is on using mobile health technologies to bridge the needs of vulnerable youth and enable providers to deliver services to at-risk populations.