RAVI CHANDRA, M.D. - PSYCHIATRIST AND AUTHOR
Facebuddha, Dr. Chandra's full-length nonfiction debut, won the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought.
A Fox Peeks Out: Poems won the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention.
He has appeared on television and radio, and presented at regional and national conferences on technology, film, Asian American issues and narcissism, among other topics.
Dr. Chandra is also the recipient of a proclamation by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for his community work.
Short bio:
Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is his full-length nonfiction debut, and is the winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought.
Longer bio:
Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is his full-length nonfiction debut, and is the winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. Dr. Chandra is a graduate of Brown University, Stanford University School of Medicine, and UCSF’s Psychiatry residency program. In March, 2016, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors honored him with a proclamation for his community work. He was staff psychiatrist and Medical Director of a community clinic (RAMS, Inc.) from 2006-2013, and still volunteers there leading a group for Cambodian patients. He also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion Cultivation Training Workshops. He has blogged regularly for Psychology Today since 2011 (The Pacific Heart) and for the Center for Asian American Media since 2005 (Memoirs of a Superfan). Information on his other books, workshops and performances is available at www.RaviChandraMD.com.
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Ravi Chandra, M.D.
Writing about psychiatry, spirituality, culture and film
Poetry, nonfiction, blogs, essays and performance