Bio_DR_RANGINWALA

Dr. Najeeb Ranginwala, MD - Mental Health Consulting Director

Trained from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.

Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Research in Geriatric Psychiatry. Involved in Different Research studies and published papers and chapter in the Handbook. 

RESEARCH CLINICAL TRIALS

• Prolonging Remission in Depressed Elderly ( PRIDE )

• Investigating t DCS as a treatment for Unipolar and Bipolar Depression

• Magnet Seizure therapy for the treatment of severe mood disorder

• Gene Sight Psychotropic on response to psychotropic treatment in outpatients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder ( Assurex Study )

• Synchronized TMS Technology for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

• Trancranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of positive and cognitive  symptoms in Schizophrenia

• H-Coil Deep Transcranial Magnet Stimulation in conjunction with mood stabilizers in subject with Bipolar Depression

• Phase 3 multicenter study of the long term safety and tolerability of ALKS 5461 for  adjuctive treatment of major depressive disorder in adult who have an   inadequate response to antidepressant therapy ( Alkermer Study )

• Broaden Trial for DBS for treatment resistant depression

•  Treatment resistant depression registry

•  Informed consent and the electroconvulsive therapy for treatment resistant  depression  

PUBLICATIONS

Article             *         “The Clinical Criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: Still good after all

                                  these years.”  Najeeb Ranginwala,Linda Hynan, Myron Weiner ,Charles White III.

                                  Publishing in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 16:5, May 2008

 The 50 most- frequently read articles in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry in the month of June, July, August, September 2008.   50 Citations in different papers                                                                                                                                             

                       * Sertraline in the treatment of depression in the elderly.

                                    Shawan McClintock, Kip Quennan, Najeeb Ranginwala, Olayemi Faniran

                                 Mustafa Husain.

                                 Published in ‘Aging Health’ 2006, 2(2) 199-208

                       *   Evaluation of a new fluorescent dye method to measure urinary albumin in lieu of

                              urinary total protein.

                              A A Pegoraro, MD, W. Peracha, MD, M. Hasnain,MD, N. Ranginwala, MD,

                              M.Shaykh, PhD, A.K.Singh, PhD,  J.A.L.Arruda,MD, G. Dunea, MD,

                              Published  in ‘American Journal of kidney Diseases’ Vol 35, No 4, April 2000:

                              pp739-744

Book                   The Clinical handbook on Schizophrenia, edited by Dilip Jeste, MD

                              Chapter’s Author: ECT Treatment in Schizophrenia

                              published on 20 April 2008.

Poster                    The Clinical Criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease: Still good after all

                                these years.  Najeeb Ranginwala, Linda Hynan, Myron Weiner, Charles White III.

                               Presented at American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry meeting on 3-3-07 at

                               New Orleans, LA.

                             * “Primary Psychiatry” peer review journal in April 2007 reviewed the above poster.