Rozina Lakhani, MD has been providing personalized psychiatric treatment and burnout prevention training at Shifa Health in Everett and Mount Vernon, WA since 2003. She also shares tips for mental fitness for leaders as an author, a speaker, and a podcast host. Starting September 2022, Dr. Lakhani’s role is transitioning into directing a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Fellowship in Outpatient Psychiatry at the Shifa Institute of Happy and Healthy Minds.
“Seeing tears in patients’ eyes change into smiles brings me the greatest joy in life. But it hurts my heart when I hear that they have waited for years to be able to see a psychiatric provider,” Dr. Lakhani says. She hopes to bring the optimum whole person care within easy reach of the people who are suffering from stress, anxiety, and depression through the Collaborative Care Model.
Dr. Lakhani hopes that involvement with the UW Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship will allow her to help facilitate collaboration between private practice psychiatry and primary care in her community. She can further impart the knowledge she gains to her fellows so more providers embrace this model and more people can live their best lives with health and happiness, avoiding unnecessary suffering.
In five years, she hopes that Collaborative Care/integrated care becomes the standard of care and is easily accessible for the majority of the population.