Shirmela Rambally, MD is a board-certified adult psychiatrist offering medication management to children, teens, and adults. She treats a full list of issues with specializations in depression, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, trauma, PTSD, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr. Rambally received her Doctor of Medicine in 2018 from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Adult Psychiatry at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital and is currently a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Rambally believes trust, empathy, kindness, and warmth are the pillars of what makes a good clinician. Any and every experience can impact thoughts, emotions, habits, and schemas that can contribute to overall contentment and quality of life. She feels it’s her job to help her clients connect the dots by considering culture and background through an individualized clinical lens.
When Dr. Rambally is not practicing medicine, she enjoys exploring new cultures through cuisine!
“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt