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Chris Pagnani, MD - Philadelphia Psychiatrist offering Psychiatric Evaluations, Second Opinions and Medication Management. Serving PA, NJ, NY, MD, DE, FL and CA
Chris Pagnani, MD has been an Instructor at The Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2012. He is a Supervisor for Psychiatry Interns and Residents at Jefferson Hospital, The Founder and Medical Director of Rittenhouse Psychiatric Associates, and a Private Practice Psychiatrist in Philadelphia, PA and on The Main Line of Philadelphia in Paoli, PA.
He is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a licensed Physician and Surgeon in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Florida and California.
He predominantly delivers psychiatric care via tele-health psychiatric appointments to his private patients. Call to discuss your specific state's regulations.
Conditions treated include Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Bipolar Disorder and other Mood Disorders, ADHD and Substance Use Disorders.
Dr. Pagnani believes in evidenced-based, holistic and thorough psychiatric care. Initial evaluations are 60 or 90-minutes in length. He believes that it is vital for psychiatric providers to take a patient's illness, personality and temperament, life story (and any history of traumas), current stressors and behaviors into account, when formulating a psychiatric diagnosis and treatment plan. He believes that many psychiatric providers overly prescribe medications, or are too quick to make psychiatric medication changes, resulting in increased side effects, an unclear understanding of a patient's response to specific treatments, and other problems for their patients.
While medication management is a component of most of his patient's treatment plan, he additionally has expertise in tapering patients off of medications (such as SSRIs, SNRIs, benzodiazepines, sleep medications, buprenorphine and others) when they are not effective, or causing more harm than good.
As visits are virtual, we are unable to schedule patients with a history of psychiatric hospitalization, suicide attempts or psychosis, as they would likely benefit from providers with psychiatric inpatient admitting privileges and 24/7 emergency availability for safety.