Seshagiri R. Doddi, MBBS

Education: 

• HSMPLSC, Hindu College, Machilipatnam, India - 1966
• MBBS, Guntur Medical College, Andhra University, India - 1974

Post Graduate Education and Training

• Rotating Internship, Government General Hospital, Guntur, India - 1973 to 1974
• PGY-I Psychiatry Residency, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY - 1977 to 1978
• PGY- II, III, IV Psychiatry Residency, Mt Sinai Services, City Hospital Center   at Elmhurst, NY - 1978 to 1981

Certifications

• Diplomat in specialty of General Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - 1983
• Diplomat in subspecialty of Geriatric Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - 1992
• Recertified in Geriatric Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - 2001
• Recertified in Geriatric Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - 2011

Medical License: 

• State of Marylannd

Graduated from medical school in India. Immigrated to USA in 1976. Completed psychiatry residency training at Mount Sinai Services, New York in 1981. After residency training, joined faculty of Mount Sinai in 1982 and was involved in psychopharmacology research funded by NIMH. Worked as unit chief of Long Island Jewish/ Hillside Hospital psychiatry residency training unit from 1989 to 1990. Worked at Our Lady of Mercy Medical center, Bronx, NY as Chief of Inpatient Psychiatry unit from 1991 to 1994, Associate Director, Department of Psychiatry and Director of Education and Psychiatry Residency Training from 1995 to 1999 and as Director, Department of Psychiatry from 1999 to 2002. From 1992 to 2012 worked as Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry Service at St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, Harrison, NY. Joined faculty of University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2012. 

I provide psychiatry treatment to adults and older adults and perform electroconvulsive therapy. 

My research interests include ECT treatment for Refractory Status Epilepticus, Psychopharmacology, Major Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia) of Alzheimer's type 

Psychopharmacology, Geriatric Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy

1.    WT Regenold, L Adler, JB Blumenthal, SR Doddi, DJ Loreck, KL Mordecai.  Aβ42 Plasma Levels are Increased in Cognitively Impaired Individuals Taking ACE Inhibitor and ARB Antihypertensives The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 24 (3), S141-S142

2.    Seshagiri Doddi, Arthur Rifkin, Basawaraj Karajgi, Thomas Cooper and Michael Borenstein.  Blood Level of Haloperidol and Clinical outcome in Schizophrenia.  J Clin Psychopharmacol 1994; Vol.14: No.3, pp 187-195

3.  Arthur Rifkin, Seshagiri Doddi, Basawaraj Karajgi, Michael Borenstein, Morton Wachspress.  Dosage of Haloperidol for Schizophrenia.  Arch of Gen Psychiatry, 1991; Vol.48; No.2, pp 166-170.

4.  Arthur Rifkin, Seshagiri Doddi, Basawaraj Karajgi, Nusrath Hasan, Luz Alvarez.  Benzodiazepine Use and Abuse by patients at Outpatient Clinics. Am J Psychiatry, 1989; Vol. 146: No.10, pp 1331-1332

5.  Arthur Rifkin, Seshagiri Doddi, Basawaraj Karajgi, Michael Borenstein, Ralph Munne.  Dosage of Haloperidol for Mania.  Br J Psychiatry, 1994; vol. 165; pp 113-116.