Meera Narasimhan, MD

Meera Narasimhan, M.D. is professor and chair in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. She serves as senior medical director for Behavioral Health, Prisma Health -Midlands and as the special advisor at USC-SOM for Health Innovations.

Dr. Narasimhan has championed mental health awareness, legislations with patient advocacy groups, mental health initiatives and telehealth working with public, private, academic partners in the state and beyond. She serves on the SC Telehealth Alliance, Palmetto Care Connection Board (Broadband) and the American Psychiatric Association Telehealth Steering Committee. She has received several National Institutes of Health, industry, foundation grants for clinical, translational and technology driven initiatives and is currently evaluating Suicide Prevention Initiatives in the state of South Carolina.

Dr. Narasimhan has received numerous prestigious national and international awards from several institutions and organizations globally including the American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mental Health America, Yale University, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the Indo American Psychiatric Association, South Carolina Department of Mental Health, USC-School of Medicine. In 2014 she received the “Hind Rattan Award”, “Jewel of India,” an Indian diaspora award for outstanding global achievements. She has championed technology driven health care initiatives to improve access and affordability and these programs have been awarded the “Psychiatric Services Achievement Award” from the American Psychiatric Association. She was honored with the South Carolina Community Innovator Award for Telehealth at the SC Telehealth Summit in 2017 and the C3 award for Care, Compassion and Collaboration from Prisma Health, the Martin Luther King leadership in action and also the James E Clyburn Health Equity Leadership Award.