Sudha Prathikanti MD is Board certified in Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is also a diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), she founded both the Integrative Psychiatry service and the Ayurveda consultation service at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, working there as core faculty from 2003-2011. She continues to teach at UCSF as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, with a special interest in researching therapies for depression.