Rajnish Mago MD

Rajnish Mago, MD, is a psychiatrist in Philadelphia and the Founder and Editor of Simple and Practical Mental Health (SimpleandPractica.com). Dr. Mago is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previously, for 13 years, he was at Thomas Jefferson University, where he was a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Mood Disorders Program.

Dr. Mago has been equally a clinician, researcher, and educator, with each of these areas informing the others. As a clinician, he provides specialized consultation as well as ongoing care to patients with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and ADHD.

As a researcher and academic, he has conducted studies on tools for identifying and assessing potential adverse symptoms, the treatment of side effects such as antidepressant-induced excessive sweating, and the use of genetic testing to predict who may be more likely to experience adverse effects.

As an educator, his clinical summaries on this website are helping clinicians in over 75 countries. At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor, he teaches advanced psychopharmacology to the psychiatry residents and is director of the psychopharmacology curriculum. He is also actively involved in continuing medical education, serving as chair of the education committee for the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society. In the past, for many years, Dr. Mago was chair of the education committee of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society and an Associate Editor of the periodical Current Psychiatry.