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Current: Dr. Kamath, a Board Certified psychiatrist, has been in private practice in Cape Girardeau, Missouri since 1982. Dr. Kamath specializes in Stress and the psychopharmacological treatment of stress-related disorders such as depressive and anxiety disorders. He has been licensed to practice medicine in Missouri since 1977.
Education and Training: Dr. Kamath received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree (M.B; B.S) in 1970 from Bangalore University, India. He came to the U. S in 1970 and did one year of internship at Mount Sinai Hospital affiliated program at Elmhurst General Hospital in New York City ('70-'71). He then completed the Yale University affiliated psychiatric training program at Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut, and Yale University affiliated Community Mental Health Center at New Haven, Connecticut ('71-'74).
Clinical Experience: Following completion of psychiatric training Dr. Kamath joined Community Mental Health Center at Arden Hill Hospital, Goshen, New York as a staff psychiatrist. Here he gained more experience in treating people suffering from serious stress-related psychiatric disorders. After three years of gaining experience here, he took over the Medical Directorship of St. Francis Mental Health Center at Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1977, currently known as Community Counseling Center. After assisting the center in its expansion of services, he returned to India in 1980 to take care of some unfinished business there. He returned to the U. S. in 1981 to take up the position of the Chief of Staff of Farmington State Hospital at Farmington, Missouri, currently known as Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center. After assisting this hospital in obtaining Medicare certification, he established a private practice in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1982. In 1984, he started a stress unit at Southeast Missouri Hospital, Cape Girardeau, and served as its first Medical Director till 1992. He also served as the Medical Director of St. Francis Medical Center's Behavioral Unit from 1988-89.
Since 1992, his practice has been exclusively outpatient. With rare exceptions, he has been able to get even seriously ill patients well without hospitalizing them. Seriously ill patients requiring hospitalization are referred to various local psychiatric hospitals for inpatient care.
Over the past 34 years, Dr. Kamath has treated over twenty five thousand patients in addition to evaluating several thousand people for various agencies including Department of Family Services, Social Security Disability Determination and Vocational Rehabilitation. By far the vast majority of his patients suffer from Depressive and Anxiety disorders. Dr. Kamath has written a definitive guide on stress entitled Is Your Balloon About to Pop?" For more information regarding Dr. Kamath’s background, education, training, experience, etc. please read Just in Case You Are Curious, the personal scrapbook in the office waiting room.
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