Karabi Nandy, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Professor School School of Public Health Department Public Health | Psychiatry Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Karabi Nandy, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Peter O’Donnell School of Public Health with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center. A statistician by training, Dr. Nandy works at the intersection of data, measurement, and clinical care in mood disorders. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating tools to assess depression, anxiety, and suicidal risk, and on using longitudinal data to better understand symptom trajectories and treatment outcomes. Dr. Nandy is the principal investigator of FOCUS Bipolar, a Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium–funded project designing a risk-stratified screening pathway for youth at familial risk for bipolar disorder. She also leads and collaborates on studies that apply psychometric methods and longitudinal modeling to large clinical cohorts, including work with the Concise Health Risk Tracking (CHRT) measures of suicidal risk in adolescents and adults. With extensive experience in team science, Dr. Nandy has served as the lead statistician on projects spanning public health, psychiatry, nursing, and other health science disciplines. Her roles commonly include study design, sampling and sample size decisions, randomization, guidance on data collection and management, and oversight of analysis and dissemination. Prior to joining UT Southwestern in 2020, she held faculty positions at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Nandy has taught across the spectrum of degree programs in public health and health sciences, with courses in regression methods, survey sampling and research, research design, multivariate statistics, and applied biostatistics. She is a dedicated mentor to graduate students, clinicians, and trainees and serves as a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals and grant mechanisms. Research Interest Longitudinal analysis of symptoms, treatment response, and course of illness Measurement and outcomes in mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder) Psychometrics of mental health and patient-reported outcome measures Risk-stratified screening and early identification in youth at familial risk for bipolar disorder Suicidal risk assessment, measurement, and trajectories Survey design and survey sampling in health research Team-science collaborations at the interface of public health and psychiatry Publications Featured Publications Psychometric evaluation of the 9-item Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR9) (a measure of suicidal risk) in adolescent psychiatric outpatients in the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN). Nandy K, Rush AJ, Slater H, Mayes TL, Minhajuddin A, Jha M, Blader JC, Brown R, Emslie G, Fuselier MN, Garza C, Gushanas K, Kennard B, Storch EA, Wakefield SM, Trivedi MH, J Affect Disord 2023 May 329 548-556 The 9-item Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR9) measure of suicidal risk: Performance in adult primary care patients Nandy, K., Rush, A. J., Carmody, T. J., Mayes, T. L., Trivedi, M. H. Front. Psychiatry 2023 23 The Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR)-A measure of suicidal risk: Performance in adolescent outpatients. Nandy K, Rush AJ, Carmody TJ, Kulikova A, Mayes TL, Emslie G, Trivedi MH, Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2022 Oct e1944 Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) Program With Texas Adolescents: Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Use Outcomes. Trivedi MH, Nandy K, Mayes TL, Wang T, Forbes K, Anderson JR, Fuller A, Hughes JL, J Clin Psychiatry 2022 May 83 4 Dual Assessment of Suicidal Risk: Integrating the Clinician-Administered CHRT-Beh and Self-Report CHRT-SR9: Findings From the T-RAD Study. Nandy K, Goodman LC, Mayes TL, Ayvaci ER, Trombello JM, Elmore JS, Vasu S, Emslie GJ, Trivedi MH. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2025 1703-1716 Evidence-based guidelines for the interpretation of the 9-item Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR9) measure of suicidal risk. Nandy K, Nandy RR, Rush AJ, Mayes TL, Trivedi MH. J Psychopharmacol. 2024 38(9) 784-788 Classification of disease damage and activity in cutaneous lupus erythematosus: A cross-sectional analysis. Abbas LF, Nandy K, Chong BF, J Am Acad Dermatol 2022 May Results 1-7 of 7 1 Professional Associations/Affiliations Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care, Department of Psychiatry (2022-2025) Peter O'Donnell School of Public Health (2020-2025)
