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Umesh Chakunta, MD

    Psychiatry
You-mesh Cha-koon-tah
He/Him
You-mesh Cha-koon-tah
He/Him

Biography

Umesh Chakunta, MD, is an adult and geriatric psychiatrist. He is a graduate of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Medical College in Pune, India, and also earned a master’s degree in healthcare administration from the University of New Haven in Connecticut. He completed a residency in adult psychiatry at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota and a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Interests

  • Psychiatric disorders in the elderly
  • Mood and anxiety disorders
  • Psychotic disorders
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Conditions Treated

  • Major mood disorders such as depression
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Anxiety disorders including PTSD, OCD
  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia
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Procedures

  • ECT
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