Dr. Paramjit Kaur Joshi, MD

Dr. Joshi joined Children's National Medical Center in 1999, after serving as director of clinical services at the Office for Prevention of Violence at The Johns Hopkins Hospital Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a Doctorate in Pediatrics from Punjab University, Christian Medical College & Brown Memorial Hospital in Ludhiana, India, and remained at Hopkins for 22 years after completing her training there in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During the past 25 years, she has developed an expertise in the study of psychological effects of violence, crisis and trauma in children.

Dr. Joshi has received numerous grants to direct research and provide outreach services, including programs in Croatia and Boznia Herzegovia. She has held several workshops for mental health professionals and developed methods to assess Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents. Her focus over the last decade has been to chart local and international …efforts to identify and treat children traumatized by violence â€" in wars abroad and closer to home in America: on its streets, in its schools, and through the media.