Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD

Sahib Khalsa, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Director of Anxiety Disorders Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is a supervisor in the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic and in the UCLA-Veterans Affairs (VA) Anxiety Disorders Clinic, where he teaches psychiatrists being trained in the clinical management of anxiety disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. He is the founding Director of the UCLA Healthy Hearts Behavioral Medicine Program, an interdisciplinary endeavor started with the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, focusing on treating anxiety and stress-related disorders in individuals with cardiac arrhythmias and other medical conditions. Dr. Khalsa is a board-certified psychiatrist and physician scientist who completed his training in Medicine and Neuroscience at the University of Iowa Medical Scientist Training Program with subsequent training in adult psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Khalsa leads an active program of research on the neurobiology of interoception and mental health funded by the NIMH. His studies leverage pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography, computational modeling, and digital tools to understand the neural mechanisms underlying internal body perception in anxiety and related disorders and to develop novel treatments for these conditions.