Dr. Kaur’s Biography

Dr. Kaur’s Biography

15 years of  work experience

Dr. Kaur was born and raised in India where she also attended  medical school. After that, she moved to the United States and became involved with various volunteer research projects at MIND institutes at the University of California, Davis. She then joined the residency program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and completed her post-graduate training in adult psychiatry. After her residency training, due to her passion for teaching, she joined as a faculty member at Truman Medical Center to be involved with teaching students and residents. Dr. Kaur also served as a Medical Student Clerkship, Director for Psychiatry at UMKC from 2015-2017 and was Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the UMKC- School of Medicine. She also served as Medical Director at Crosswinds Counseling and Wellness from 2017- 2023. Now she is running her private practice as Compassionate psychiatry at Overland Park Kansas location. She provides hybrid services depending upon the patients’ needs: in-person Office visits who like to see her in her office location and continue with tele-consultations. Tele consultations depend on patient preference, which became more prevalent during pandemic due to the patient’s comfort, ease of access and being affordable. 

Dr. Kaur is a Board-Certified adult Psychiatrist and is also trained in other FDA approved somatic therapies for depression- resistant treatments include TMS, ECT and  trained in Maternal Mental Health (PMH).

Dr. Kaur is experienced in providing Tele- Psychiatry Services in various states. As she has been providing consultations at MD live since 2016 and started at Timely care provider in 2023.

She is Licensed to practice medicine in the states of California, Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, Virginia Wisconsin, and provide services to which are clinically appropriate at the tele-Platform. She is passionate about working with children and adults to improve their emotional wellbeing. Dr. Kaur
has a strong medical background and is an expert in psychopharmacology Intervention.

Area of Interest

  • She has special interest, knowledge, and experience working with women’s mental health including prenatal and post-natal mental health issues and children’s dealing with a variety of mental health issues.
  • She also really enjoys working with and provide services to all young adults and have a considerable amount of experience with managing anxiety, Trauma related disorders, mood disorders, and other situational psychiatric symptoms in both men and women with medications.
  • However, at Telepsychiatry consultations due to some federal regulations’ Dr Kaur has limitation to provide controlled medication.

Specialties

  • General Psychiatry: Treat adolescents, adults, geriatric patients
  • Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH)

Certifications/ Training

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).
  • Transcranial Magnetic stimulation Certification.
  • ECT Certified
  • Suboxone Licensed: MAT training.
  • Perinatal Mental Health Professional Training (PMH).

Medical Licensure

  • Missouri
  • Kansas
  • California
  • Wisconsin
  • South Dakota
  • Virginia

Teaching Experience

Faculty at UMKC-SOM

Clinical Assistant professor of Psychiatry supervising and teaching UMKC-SOM psychiatry residents in OP and IP clinical setting providing NBME Review courses to clerkship medical students.

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing
Mentor for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Teacher as Resident

UMKC-SOM 5th year students (rotate through the clinical clerkship in psychiatry/ electives)
NBME Review course.

Preceptor:

Paul Home Asian Clinic, Sacramento, California (student run free clinic supported by the U.C
Davis School of medicine)
Junior supervisor for UC Davis medical students

Leadership experiences

UMKC- School of Medicine

Director of Psychiatry Clerkship
UMKC-School of medicine
Kansas City MO
April 2015-December 2017

CrossWinds Counselling & Wellness

Medical Director: outpatient community mental health clinic
Emporia, Kansas
December,2017 – April, 2023