Position Title
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Singh is the Robert H. Putnam Endowed Chair in Bipolar Research and Treatment at University of California Davis. She completed her combined residency training in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and after two years of T32 postdoctoral training, she joined Stanford University's professoriate, where she conducted family studies integrating neuroimaging, cognitive, genetic, behavioral, and peripheral biomarker data characterizing risk for and resilience from developing bipolar and other mood disorders.
Dr. Singh's work at UC Davis has a three-fold mission: 1) to investigate the origins and pathways for developing major mood disorders and in processes that protect and preserve function after disorder onset; 2) to recruit, train, and sustain the next generation of basic, translational, and clinical researchers in psychiatry; and 3) to evolve clinical care in ways that lead to better outcomes. Taking a translational medicine approach, Dr. Singh’s research aims to address unmet clinical needs through bridging fundamentals in science to clinical practice. She applies cutting edge tools to optimize existing therapeutic targets through innovations in trial design, investigations of placebo response, and pursuit of novel therapeutic targets through reverse and forward translation, fast-fail clinical trials, and direct modulation of key brain regions using transcranial magnetic stimulation and real-time neurofeedback. Her lab conducts mechanistic and comparative effectiveness trials alongside safety assessments of existing and novel interventions that reduce illness burden and optimize functioning.