Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
Duke University School of Medicine
Aishwarya Rajagopalan, D.O., MHS (she/her/hers) is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Duke University School of Medicine. A graduate of the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program, Dr. Rajagopalan served as Chief Resident of Education, and created the program's curriculum in structural competency and antiracism. During her tenure as a Chief, she created Residents vs. Program Leadership Jeopardy, to foster education and competition between trainees and program leadership on a variety of topics ranging from diagnosing mood disorders to assessing common medical emergencies encountered on call. She also served on the VA Diversity and Inclusion Committee nationwide as well as locally at VA Boston, and co-led an intervention to train mental health providers on addressing microaggressions in clinical settings. Her clinical interests include caring for children, adolescents, and transition age youth with complex medical and psychiatric illness, and the intersection of medicine and public policy. Her research interests include medical education for psychiatry trainees, especially around the provision of feedback , integration of structural competency training within graduate medical education, cardiac psychiatry, and feeding/eating disorders.
