Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Mallika Lavakumar received her BS (Summa Cum Laude) and MD from the University of Florida at Gainesville. She completed residency training in Psychiatry at Emory University and fellowship training in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. Since 2014, she has been co-investigator on a Department of Health & Human Services-funded project, “Collaborative Care for Depression in HIV Primary Care.” She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with added qualifications in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. She lives in Cleveland, OH with her husband and two children.