Meet Dr. Shalini Tharani, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Shalini Tharani is a psychiatrist who has been practicing in Phoenix for more than 20 years. She received her medical degree from Kasturba Medical College Manipal and has built a career defined by precision and depth, with expertise spanning complex mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and the nuanced psychiatric care of children on the autism spectrum with significant co-morbidities.

Her two decades of clinical practice represent more than experience; they reflect the pattern recognition and judgment that come only from working with thousands of patients, including children with the most complex presentations.

As Chief Medical Officer at Roya Health, Dr. Tharani ensures that the psychiatric dimension of every child and family's care is held by a clinician with deep expertise, and that it is coordinated with the therapist, care coordinator, and the full clinical team working around each child. Her leadership anchors Roya Health's model of integrated behavioral health: not parallel care from providers in separate lanes, but one team working together, with psychiatric expertise at its center.