Bavani Rajah, MD

Dr. Bavani Rajah is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Rajah received her undergraduate education at the University of Akron and attended medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University as part of an accelerated BS/MD program. She completed clinical training in adult psychiatry at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois and served as chief resident during the 2020-2021 academic year.  Dr. Rajah pursued child and adolescent psychiatry training at Northwestern University/Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. In 2023, she joined the faculty at Vanderbilt as an attending on the Child and Adolescent inpatient unit at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and outpatient care for children with neurodevelopmental conditions in the MEND Clinic.  Her clinical interests include anxiety disorders, family therapy, neurodevelopmental disorders and technology/social media in psychiatry.