Krishna Bezwada, MD

Dr. Bezwada received his Doctor of Medicine from the Russian Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow, Russia.

He completed his Psychiatry Internship at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Virginia, where he also completed his Psychiatry Residency. Leadership roles during his residency included becoming the Journal Club Moderator for Psychiatric Residents, being a judge for abstract presentations by medical students at the Medical Society of Virginia Poster Symposium, and being selected by VCU to attend the “Emory Symposium for Psychiatric Residents”. He was also the Senior Administrative Resident in his final year.

After noticing an abundance of addiction issues in his patients during his residency, and finding this a challenging population to treat, he decided to further his training in addiction. He completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY.

Following his fellowship, he became an Attending Physician of Inpatient Psychiatry at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He treated a variety of adults who required inpatient treatment and needed ongoing help for mental and behavioral issues. He provided diagnoses and treatment plans, including medication management and therapy to address all aspects of their struggles.

During this time, he pursued his love of teaching and became a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn. He lectured on Psychopharmacology and Addiction to psychiatric residents and medical students. Educating others continued to play a large role in Dr. Bezwada’s career path.

He was Psychiatric Unit Chief at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, New York, at the time they were establishing their first classes of residents. Dr. Bezwada was the Attending Inpatient Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, which provides the community with comprehensive psychiatric and mental health care services to support a wide range of needs for adults, children and families in Queens and Nassau County. He became the Director of Performance Improvement as well.

Most recently, he was an Attending Psychiatrist at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, NY. The largest in-patient psychiatric facility in Suffolk County, St. Catherine’s Department of Psychiatry provides holistic, patient-centered care and advocacy services for adults aged 18 and older with a primary diagnosis of mental illness such as schizophrenia, and bi-polar and depressive disorder conditions.