Dr. Aana Shaunak Shah

Trauma-informed care is central to how Dr. Aana Shaunak Shah practices psychiatry, alongside a strong interest in ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence.

Education & Registration

• MBBSG.C.S. Medical College, Ahmedabad — ranked 1st in college for NEET PG 2017
• MD, PsychiatryB.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad — Gold Medalist, University Final Exams 2021
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Women’s Mental HealthNIMHANS, Bengaluru 2022
• MRCPsychRoyal College of Psychiatrists, UK 2025
• Additional certificationsTrauma-informed principles for medication management; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) — Swasti Institute (affiliated with the Beck Institute); Sexual Medicine — Allo Health
• RegistrationMedical Council of India, Reg. No. G-59399

Experience

Dr. Shah has been practicing psychiatry for over 5 years. She ranked first in her MBBS college for NEET PG and later won a Gold Medal in her MD (Psychiatry) university final exams, training and working across several major psychiatric centres along the way, where she managed both acute and chronic psychiatric illness.

A significant part of her work involves perinatal mental health — postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and postpartum OCD and anxiety, among others. She also sees children and adolescents, and works with trauma-related conditions such as complex PTSD and grief. Certifications in trauma-informed medication management, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and sexual medicine round out an integrative approach, aimed at giving patients practical, evidence-based support they can lean on between appointments, not just during them.

In 2021, she was named a West Zone Finalist for the Torrent Young Scholar Award for a thesis on the psychiatric side-effects of MDR-TB drugs, and in 2022 she published research on perinatal depression in the Journal of Psychiatry Spectrum. She is a Lifetime Member of the Indian Psychiatric Society and a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.

Areas of Focus