About
Shantanu Baghel, DO
Board-certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Practicing from Wilmington, working statewide.
A telepsychiatry practice for adults across North Carolina. Mood, hormones, and metabolism rarely move on their own, so the practice evaluates all three together before treating any one of them.
Degree, residency, fellowship, boards.
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Internal medicine intern year
Southeastern Regional Medical Center, Lumberton, North Carolina.
Psychiatry residency
Albany Medical College, Albany, New York.
Forensic psychiatry fellowship
University of Rochester, completed 2023. Subspecialty training in the application of psychiatry to legal questions.
ABPN certification
Board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry and in forensic psychiatry.
APA · AAPL
American Psychiatric Association. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Four positions the practice is built on.
Cash-pay, no insurance
Insurance dictates appointment length and treatment options. Cash-pay removes that lever. You pay directly, and the visit is built around your care.
Built for telehealth
Telepsychiatry removes the scheduling bottleneck in-person practices can't fix. A 45 to 60 minute video visit gives the same clinical picture as in-person care for the conditions this practice treats.
Mood, hormones, metabolism together
Thyroid, testosterone, and metabolic markers are worked up alongside the psychiatric history, because they frequently shape mood, energy, and treatment response.
What the forensic training adds
Subspecialty training in forensic psychiatry sharpens the questions a clinician asks. Most patients won't ever need an evaluation for court, but they benefit from the rigor the training brings to ordinary clinical work.
Who this is for.
This practice works best with patients who want to understand what's happening and are willing to take an active role. It works less well for patients looking for a quick prescription and minimal involvement.
- Higher-functioning adults still managingPeople doing the work of their lives but struggling underneath, who want a real evaluation.
- Patients with complex presentationsMood plus hormones, ADHD plus anxiety, depression with metabolic contributors, supervised tapering of long-standing antidepressants. The full picture.
- Attorneys and counselForensic engagements separately, for criminal responsibility, competency, mitigation, civil capacity, and related matters. Forensic page.
- Patients across all of North CarolinaTelehealth covers the whole state. Wherever you are in NC, the practice can reach you.
Five lines of care, one physician.
- 01Comprehensive psychiatry
- 02Testosterone therapy
- 03Medical weight loss
- 04Peptide therapy
- 05Forensic psychiatry
Patient-facing services run on a flat $250/month membership. Forensic work is billed separately at an hourly rate, set in the engagement agreement.
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