Vijay Swahari
About Vijay Swahari
Dr. Vijay Swahari serves as a supervising physician at Animo Sano Psychiatry, where he provides oversight and guidance to behavioral health providers to ensure the delivery of exceptional patient care.
After obtaining his medical degree, Dr. Vijay Swahari completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied brain development and maturation and the ensuing disorders that occur during neurodevelopment. Following his research fellowship, he trained in the psychiatry residency program at Duke University. During his training at Duke, he was particularly drawn to the biopsychosocial approach of treating psychiatric illness. This approach involves careful medication management with equal emphasis on therapy and improving social support. Training first as a Tarheel and then a Blue Devil, Dr. Swahari has made North Carolina his home.