
Dr. Shermeil Dass, M.D.
Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
655 Capitola Rd suite 200 Santa Cruz CA, 95062
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Dr. Shermeil Dass practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Santa Cruz, CA. Dr. Dass evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Dass seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
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Education and Training
NEOCOM medical degree 0
Board Certification
psychiatry & child and adolescent psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Co-administration of melatonin reverses the tin-protoporphyrin (SnPP) induced decline of cytochrome P450 content in vivo in rats.
- Antagonistic effect of FePP on the ethanol mediated induction of hepatic, renal and splenic δ-amino levulinic acid synthase activityin vivo in rats.
- Inhibitory effect of metalloporphyrins in conjunction with cholesterol on hepatic phospholipase A(2) activityin vivo in rats.
- An opium alkaloid-papaverine ameliorates ethanol-induced hepatotoxicity: Diminution of oxidative stress.
- Cadmium, carcinogen, co-carcinogen and anti carcinogen.
- Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation : an overview of Recent Advances in Concepts and Practices.
- CAUDAL ANALGESIA FOR POSTOPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF IN CHILDREN.
- Eight years experience with Rh negative isoimmunised mothers in a special rhesus clinic.
- Studies on cold pressor response of subjects who suffered from frostbite at high altitude.
- Studies on cold pressor response of subjects who suffered from frostbite at high altitude.
- Prediction of some ventilatory 'norms' in healthy Indian males 21-69 years age.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Fellowships
- University Hospitals of Cleveland associated with Case Western Reserve child psychiatry
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Get to know General & Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr. Shermeil Dass, who serves patients in Santa Cruz, California.
Dr. Dass is a board-certified general & child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been serving patients at her private practice in Santa Cruz, California since 2009. She diagnoses and treats autistic spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders, and psychotic disorders.
Utilizing pharmaceutical as well as non-pharmaceutical techniques to treat mental illnesses, her mission is to provide the highest level of psychiatric care that is affordable in a non-judgmental environment.
Academically, Dr. Dass graduated from a 6-year BS/MD program and went to NEOCOM in Rootstown, Ohio. After medical school, she completed her residency in general psychiatry and then a fellowship in child psychiatry at the University Hospitals of Cleveland associated with Case Western Reserve where she served as Chief Resident.
After graduation, she moved to Santa Cruz and worked full-time at the County of Santa Cruz. She worked at the County for a decade with the foster care system, juvenile justice system, and with the transitional age youth team.
Licensed to practice medicine in California, the doctor is board-certified in psychiatry & child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The ABPN is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to serving the professions of psychiatry and neurology.
Child and adolescent psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. Child and adolescent psychiatrists are engaged in promoting emotional well-being and the prevention, early intervention, and treatment of all types of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour across a continuum of patients with mild episodic disorders to those with chronic and enduring disorders.
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