Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery: Gandhi Medical College,
Bhopal, India, 1993
Fellowship: Clinical Neuroscience Research, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998
Residency: Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut, 1997
Board Certification: American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology, 1999
Special Interests: Mood disorders,
anxiety disorders

Dr. Meera Narasimhan joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 1998. After attending medical school at the Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, India, Dr. Narasimhan completed her residency training in psychiatry at Yale University Department of Psychiatry and went on to complete a fellowship in psychopharmacology at Yale. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and also serves as an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Narasimhan serves as the Director of the Division of Biological Research in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She is also the Director for Research Initiatives for the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Ongoing research projects at USC-SOM include understanding the neurobiology and novel pharmacological interventions in mood disorders, schizophrenia and co-morbid substance use disorder, and autism. Board certified in psychiatry, she has special interests in mood disorders and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Narasimhan has published in peer reviewed journals including The Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Primary Care Companion, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Current Opinion Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry, Journal of Depression and Anxiety and Psychiatric Times. She has been the recipient of many honors and awards at Yale Univeristy, the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, the University of South Carolina, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the American Psychaitric Association.