Rishi Sawhney, M.D.

Rishi Sawhney, M.D., received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where he graduated with the Care of the Underserved distinction. He completed his adult psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and a public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. He also holds an undergraduate degree in finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Sawhney is a psychiatrist at Central Health-affiliated CommUnityCare Health Centers in the Black Men’s Health Clinic, David Powell Clinic and Austin Center for the Homeless. Prior to joining Dell Medical School, he served as the community behavioral health medical director at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, where he provided medical leadership for over $900 million annually in state-funded community-based psychiatric services.

Sawhney previously served as assistant professor at the Texas Department of State Health Services Preventive Medicine Residency and on the Texas State Hospital governing body, the Texas Health and Human Services Institutional Review Board, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Medical Directors Executive Committee and the Psychiatric Services Early-Career Psychiatrist Advisory Committe.

Sawhney’s interests include administrative psychiatry, community psychiatry, safety-net services, system-based work, psychiatric leadership and recovery-centered services.