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Rakesh Jain, M.D., MPH
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Dr. Jain is Director of Psychiatric Drug Research for R/D Clinical Research at Lake Jackson, Texas. Dr. Jain attended medical school at the University of Calcutta in India and then attended graduate school at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston where he was awarded the National Institute/Center for Disease Control Competitive Traineeship. He graduated from the School of Public Health in 1987 with a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree.

After graduate school, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Research Psychiatry, under the Gerontology Center of the University of Texas Mental Sciences Institute in Houston where he was a recipient of a National Research Service Award for the support of the Post Doctoral Fellowship. After this, he served a three-year residency in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and two years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Jain is currently involved in multiple research projects studying the effects of medications on short-term and long-term treatment of depression, anxiety, pain/mood overlap disorders, and psychosis in adult and child/adolescent populations. He is also the author of several articles on the issue of mood and pain conditions. He was recently named "Public Citizen of the Year" by the National Association of Social Workers, Gulf Coast Chapter, in recognition of community and peer education and championing of mental health issues.


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