Sanjay G. Adhia, MD

About

Sanjay G. Adhia, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained specialist in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and brain injury medicine. He sees patients for emotional distress, mental health injuries, and brain injury concerns that may be triggered by factors such as personal injury, undue influence, changed competency, medical malpractice, physical and emotional abuse, violence, or criminal behavior. His clinical focus is treating the neuropsychiatric complications of brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury.

Adhia is skilled in evaluating post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), anxiety and depressive disorders, risk of suicide, and malingering. He’s experienced in the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on decision-making. In psychiatric hospitals, Adhia treats psychosis, schizophrenia, and psychotic disorders such as hallucinations or delusions.

Adhia is an assistant professor in the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Adhia volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network and Daya Houston, conducting forensic assessments of victims of kidnapping and false imprisonment, human trafficking, undue influence, physical and sexual abuse, and rape.