Aashish Morani

Board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a PhD in Neuroscience and advanced academic training in pharmacology. Experienced in comprehensive psychiatric assessment and medication management across the lifespan, with clinical experience in child and adolescent psychiatry and strong expertise in depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar/mood disorders, PTSD, and co-occurring substance use. Experienced with suicide risk assessment, safety planning, family psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, crisis intervention, and trauma-informed care.

Research background includes addiction psychiatry, substance use, opioid/kappa-opioid pharmacology, PTSD, and behavioral pharmacology.

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at Health and Psychiatry (2025-10 – Present)

• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, diagnostic formulation, and individualized treatment planning for patients across the lifespan.
• Diagnose and manage pharmacologic treatment for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, psychotic disorders, and other psychiatric conditions.
• Conduct suicide, NSSI, aggression, and psychosis risk assessments using C-SSRS and PHQ-9; develop individualized safety plans.
• Provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive, patient-centered care and monitor medication efficacy, adverse effects, adherence, and clinical response.

PMHNP Clinical Experience at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (2024-02 – 2025-08)

• Provided comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and treatment planning for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, with substantial exposure to pediatric and adolescent mental health.
• Managed pharmacologic treatment for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar/mood disorders, PTSD, and psychotic disorders.
• Conducted suicide/NSSI and behavioral risk assessments and developed safety plans tailored to developmental stage, family supports, and clinical risk.
• Partnered with families, psychiatrists, therapists, and social workers; provided family psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, crisis intervention, and brief psychotherapy.
• Performed follow-up assessments to evaluate medication efficacy, adverse effects, adherence, and functional outcomes.

Registered Nurse at AdventHealth North Pinellas Hospital (2023-02 – 2023-12)

• Provided care for patients with acute psychiatric and neurological conditions; performed psychiatric assessments and trauma-informed de-escalation.
• Administered psychotropic medications and monitored for adverse effects, suicidality, and behavioral changes.
• Supported therapeutic milieu, interdisciplinary rounds, and treatment-team communication.

Postdoctoral Research Coordinator, Addiction Psychiatry at Kansas City VA Medical Center (2012 – 2013)

• Managed VA-funded clinical trials examining PTSD and substance use and their impact on veterans' mental health outcomes.
• Developed clinical research protocols, consent procedures, and symptom-tracking/data-collection systems.
• Supported IRB submissions, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, and interdisciplinary addiction-psychiatry research.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neuropharmacology at ETSU Quillen College of Medicine (2013 – 2016)

• Conducted translational research in kappa-opioid modulation, depression, behavioral pharmacology, and neuropharmacological interventions.
• Collaborated with physicians and nurse practitioners on interdisciplinary research involving PTSD, addiction, and affective disorders.
• Designed and implemented behavioral pharmacology models and presented findings at national and international conferences.

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (2017-01 – 2023-12)

• Taught psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and clinical pharmacology to medical and pharmacy students.
• Developed curriculum on substance use disorders, addiction pharmacotherapy, psychiatric medication safety, and adverse drug effects.
• Mentored research involving neuropharmacology, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and psychiatric medication safety.

Master of Science in Nursing in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – University of Alabama at Birmingham (2025)

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience – Victoria University of Wellington (2011)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing in Nursing – Rasmussen University (2022)

Master of Science in Pharmacology – Bharati Vidyapeeth University (2006)

Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Pharmacology – Government College of Pharmacy (2003)