Sharath Puttichanda, MD

Dr. Puttichanda received his international medical degree from JJM Medical College in Karnataka, India, where he also completed his Internship.

After medical school, he interned at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India, where he was focused on research on long-acting injectables for recovery from bipolar disorder and also worked on treatment-resistant OCD.

He completed his Residency in Adult Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Psychiatry Residency Program in Brooklyn, New York. He became Chief Resident and also served as the Mental Health Film Forum Facilitator and the Resident Representative on the GME Subcommittee for Resident Affairs. He was awarded the Best Psychiatry Resident for Contribution to Clinical Work at Kings County Hospital.

He was an Attending Psychiatrist at Butler Hospital in the Patient Assessment Department in Providence, Rhode Island. During this time, he also served as an Attending Psychiatrist at the Providence Center Community Mental Health Center. This was when he began to hone his passion for academia and teaching.

He was later a Clinical Assistant Professor at Brown University, where he taught and supervised psychiatry residents. He lectured on several different subjects including Emergency Psychiatry with a focus on special populations and difficult scenarios as well as Psychopharmacology and talking to patients about medication. He supervised residents during their rotations and on a daily basis in the Patient Emergency Services and provided psychotherapy supervision.

Most recently, he was Assistant Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services at Rhode Island Hospital and Attending Psychiatrist at the Department of Corrections for the state of Rhode Island at the maximum security, women’s jail, and men’s jail facilities. During this time, he continued his clinical supervision of residents and teaching at Brown University, where he also supervised Psychology students at Brown and PA students at Bryant University.