Niranjan S. Karnik, M.D., Ph.D.

Education & Training

• University of Illinois College of Medicine, M.D., 2002
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociology, Ph.D., 2003
• Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, General Psychiatry Residency, 2002-2005
• Stanford University & Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, 2005-2007
• Board Certified, Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 2009

Clinical Interests

• Adolescence
• Co-morbid medical conditions
• Social and cultural factors in medical practice
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Research Interests

• Health disparities & substance use disorders
• Underserved and vulnerable populations (street, homeless, foster and refugee youth)
• Community-based interventions with attention to social and cultural factors
• Qualitative and mixed methods

Teaching

• Course Director, Adolescent Substance Use Disorders, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Chicago, 2009-present
• Course Director, Child & Adolescent Cultural Psychiatry, University of Chicago, 2009-present
• Course Director, Conduct & Disruptive Behavior Disorders, University of Chicago, 2009-present

Society Memberships

• American Psychiatric Association
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

Selected Publications

• Karnik NS, Soller MV, Redlich A, Silverman M, Kraemer HC, Haapanen R, Steiner H. Prevalence Differences of Psychiatric Disorders among Youth after Nine Months or more of Incarceration by Race/Ethnicity and Age. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2010. 21(1):237-50.
• Bauer SM, Steiner H, Feucht M, Stompe T, Karnik N, Kasper S, Plattner B. Psychosocial background on incarcerated adolescents from Austria, Turkey and former Yugoslavia. Psychiatry Research. 2010.
• Kjelsberg E, Rustad A, Karnik N. Social-emotional adjustment predicts criminal recidivism in female prisoners. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 2009. 19(5):298-307. 19813179.
• Blair RJR, Karnik NS, Coccaro E, Steiner H. Taxonomy and Neurobiology of Aggression. In: Ash P, Benedek E, Scott C, editors. Principles and Practices of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. 2009.
• Huemer J, Karnik NS, Voelkl-Kernstock S, Granditsch E, Dervic K, Friedrich MH, Steiner H. Mental Health Issues in Unaccompanied Refugee Minors. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 2009. 3:13.
• Karnik NS, Soller MV, Redlich A, Silverman M, Kraemer HC, Haapanen R, Steiner H. Prevalence Rates and Gender Differences of Psychiatric Disorders Among Juvenile Delinquents Nine Months Into Incarceration. Psychiatric Services. 2009. 60(6):838-41.
• Karnik NS, Eheart BK, Power M, Steiner H. US Perspectives on Vulnerable and Underserved Youth. In: Vostanis P, editor. Mental Health Interventions and Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2007.
• Power M, Eheart B, Racine D, Karnik N. Aging Well in an Intentional Intergenerational Community: Meaningful Relationships and Purposeful Engagement. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. 2007. 5(2):7-25.
• Karnik NS, Steiner H. Evidence for Interventions for Young Offenders. Child & Adolescent Mental Health. 2007. 12(4):154-9.
• Karnik NS. Disasters, Disparities & Cultural Psychiatry. Directions in Psychiatry. 2007. 27(4):251-9.
• Karnik NS, Joshi SV, Paterno C, Shaw RJ. Subtypes of Pediatric Delirium: A Treatment Algorithm. Psychosomatics. 2007 May-June; 48(3):253-7.
• Karnik NS, Soller MV, Steiner H. Psychopharmacology and Juvenile Delinquency. In Kessler CL, Kraus LJ, editors. The Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007.
• Karnik NS, Dogra N, Vostanis P. Child Psychiatry Across Cultures. In Bhui K, Bhugra D, editors. Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2007.
• Karnik NS, Jones PA, Campanaro AE, Haapanen R, Steiner H. Ethnic Variation of Self-Reported Psychopathology Among Incarcerated Adolescents. Community Mental Health Journal. October 2006. 42(5):477-86.
• Soller MV, Karnik NS, Steiner H. Psychopharmacological Treatment in Juvenile Offenders. Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. April 2006; 15(2): 477-99.
• Karnik NS, McMullin M, Steiner H. Disruptive Behaviors: Conduct and Oppositional Disorders. Adolescent Medicine Clinics. February 2006; 17(1):97-114.
• Steiner H, Karnik NS. Child and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior. In: Sadock B, Sadock V, editors. Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2005.
• Karnik NS. The Social Environment. In: Steiner H, editor. Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach. New York: Jossey-Bass; 2004.

Selected Conferences & Presentations

• Developmental Approaches to Psychopathology. Invited Talk: Putting the social back in the biopsychosocial model: community as intervention for childhood psychopathology. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. July 24, 2009.
• Refugee Youth and Homeless Children and Adolescents: Redirecting antisocial trajectories to pro-social paths. Invited Talk: The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among homeless youth in San Francisco. Medical University of Vienna, Austria. March 4, 2009.
• Generations of Hope Development Corporation Fall Conference: GHC’s Realizing the Power of People. Keynote Presentation: Stress, Trauma and Community as Intervention. Chicago, Illinois. November 12-13, 2008.
• UCSF 41st Annual Advances and Controversies in Clinical Pediatrics Conference. Invited Talk: Childhood Bipolar Disorder: New Science or New Labels? San Francisco, California. May 29-31, 2008.
• AACAP Annual Board Review Course. Invited Talk: Disruptive Behavior Disorders & Personality Disorders. San Francisco, California. April 3-5, 2008.

Other Activities

• Serves on the editorial boards of Child Psychiatry & Human Development and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
• Regular reviewer for a number of professional and academic journals.