Archana Rao Adikey, MD

Current Position

Clinical assistant professor
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ECU Health Physicians, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine
East Carolina University

Residency / Fellowship

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

August 2022 – August 2024
Fellow, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program

Carilion Clinic, Virginia-Tech School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA

July 2019 – August 2022
Resident, Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Education

Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, India

October 2002 – July 2008
Medical School, Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Licensure / Certification

• The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Certified on 9/9/2024.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Eligible
• Medical License, North Carolina Medical Board. 02/21/2024- current

Awards/Honors

XIII World Breastfeeding Week Quiz competition

08/2004

Awarded first prize at Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, India

4th International Conference and Exhibition on Addiction Research and Therapy

05/2015

Awarded with best poster presentation, Biomarkers of PTSD at Stress Management
Summit, Philadelphia

Open Access Journal by MDPI in recognition of the outstanding publication

04/2021

Certificate for Best Paper award, “Factors Related to Physician Burnout and its Consequences: A Review “ Behav.Sci.2018,8(11), 98; doi:10.3390/bs8110098 along with the co-authors.

Presentations / Lectures

General Psychiatry, Residency, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA UAMS

• Journal Club presentation, Do Long-acting Injectable Antipsychotics prevent or delay hospital readmission?” 12/19/2020.
• Adult case conference, Opioid Use disorder 02/04/2021.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, UAMS, Little Rock.

• Journal Club presentation, Developmental disorders, and Autism Spectrum disorders 8/31/2022.
• PGY-2 lectures, Child Psychiatric Emergencies 01/09/2023.
• Journal Club presentation, A clinical approach to circadian sleep disorders 01/11/2023.
• Psychopharmacology Bootcamp: Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating disorders08/16/2023.
• Case Conference: Dysmorphic Mood Dysregulation Disorder, Patient safety measures 11/29/2023
• Practice Improvements: Limitations of psychiatric rating scales 12/13/2023.
• PGY-2 lectures, eating disorders 01/29/2024.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ECU, Greenville, NC

• Presented a talk on, “Mental Health Awareness” at Indian Association of Eastern Northern Carolina Raised $3500 that will be shared between ECU Behavioural Health and Cancer centre. 04/12/2025
• Supervised the resident trainees who presented podcast on the topic,” Psycho pharmacology of non-stimulants: Strattera, Clonidine, Guanfacine and Qelbree.” at Eastern AHEC, which will released on Spotify. 6/18/25
• Presented on, “Child Psychiatric Emergencies and Management,” at resident didactics Lecture series. 7/10/2025

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, UAMS, Little Rock.

(Average number of learners 5-18)

• Journal Club presentation, Developmental disorders, and Autism Spectrum disorders 08/31/2022.
• PGY-2 lectures, Child Psychiatric Emergencies 01/09/2023
• Journal Club presentation, A clinical approach to circadian sleep disorders 01/11/2023.
• Psychopharmacology Bootcamp: Autism Spectrum Disorder and Eating disorders 08/16/2023.
• Case Conference: Dysmorphic Mood Dysregulation Disorder, Patient safety measures 11/29/2023
• Practice Improvements: Limitations of psychiatric rating scales 12/13/2023
• PGY-2 lectures, eating disorders 01/29/2024.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Kotapati, V, P, Veliz, S, S, Dar,S, Bachu R, Adikey, A, Shah,M,R, Begum, Gulshan, and Talpur, A. Marijuana Use during Pregnancy. Global Journal of Addiction and Rehabilitation Medicine. 2018, May; 5(5): (001-007)
• Abdallah, C.G, Averill,L,A., Akiki,T, J.,Raza, M., Averill, C, L., Gomma, H., Adikey, A., Krystal, J, H. The Neurobiology and Pharmacotherapy of Post traumatic Stress Disorder. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, August 2018; PMID:30216745
• Bachu, R., Adikey, A., Malik,M.,Shah,M.,Patel, M. Causes and Consequences of Physician Burnout: A Review. MDPI Behavioral Sciences, August 2018; PMID:30366419
• Hemant G Rikinkumar S Patel, Saher H Kamil, Ramya Bachu, Archana Adikey, Virendrasinh Ravat, Mandeep Kaur, William E Tankersley, Marijuana use and acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review of published cases in the literature. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, July 2020; PMID:3143983
• Ahmed, S., Hussain, M., Manzoor, H., Sreeram, V., Dar,S., Amin,S., Ahmed, R., Qureshi, M., Singh,S., Adikey, A., Sood, S., Farooq, M., Azhar,T. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder in the HIV Population: A Safe, Effective Noninvasive Promising Treatment as Compared to conventional Antidepressant treatment, September, 2015.
• Kar, A., Adikey, A., Wells, J., Kablinger, A. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Driven by Aspects of Ritual Addiction: A Case Report of Literature, Psychopharmacology Bulletin 2021 Mar 16; 51(2): 65-68 PMID: 34092823

Poster/Abstract Publications

• Archana Adikey., Natashia Bottoms. Importance of sex education in adolescents at Fellows Research forum at Arkansas Children’s hospital, May 2024
• Ching-Fang Sun, Archana Adikey, Virginia C. O’Brien, Anita S. Kablinger. Mixed Amphetamine and, Alprazolam Increase Risk of Substance Use Disorder in ADHD adolescents at Psychiatry Society of Virginia, Sep 2022
• Stephanie Masters, Jessica Farrell, Archana Adikey, Hunter Sharp, and Anita Kablinger. Enhancing Hepatitis C Screening and Linkage to Care in Psychiatry, presented Research Day program, on 04/2022, Carilion Clinic- Virginia Tech School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA-24018
• Adikey, Archana., Khalid, Kiran and Reddy, Abhishek., Importance of sleep curriculum for Psychiatry trainees at virtual TEACH Education Day, on 10/28/21
• Adikey, Archana, and Reddy, Abhishek. Obsessive Compulsive disorder, treatment challenges with medical disorder, presented Research Day program, on 04/13/2021, Carilion Clinic- Virginia Tech School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA-24018
• Adikey, Archana., Kerman, Ilan M.D., & Kablinger, Anita. Delusional Parasitosis- antipsychotics to treat, “Bugging” at 174th American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, APA 2021, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Kar, A., Adikey, A., Wells, J., Kablinger, A. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Driven by Aspects of Ritual Addiction: A Case Report of Literature presented at Psychiatry Society of Virginia’s 2020 Fall Meeting, Roanoke, Virginia, September 2020
• Samarbafzadeh, Ehsan., Alee Koloukani, S., Adikey, A. Acute onset apathy in the context of malignancy: A Case Report presented at Psychiatry Society of Virginia’s 2020 Fall Meeting, Roanoke, Virginia, September 2020
• Kaushal., Stevens,L., Adikey, A., Shukla,A.,Parvataneni,S.,Pistorius,R., McNeil,S. Catching Early Poster Red Flags: A Review on Identifying Predictive Determinants of Eating Disorders among Adolescent Athletes presented at: 2019 APA Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Adikey, Archana, and Bahekar, Pratik. Less is more: Importance of antidepressant drug interactions at American Psychiatry Association, May 2018; New York City, NY, USA.
• Adikey, Archana, Kaushal, Miky., Stevens, Lee. “To the Bones:” A Review of the Medical and Psychiatric complications of Eating Disorders, at AACAP October 2018; Seattle, WA.
• Adikey, A., Bahekar, P., Politis,M., and Karagiorga, W. Risperidone induced leukopenia and neutropenia at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 2017, San Diego, CA, USA.Review
• Adikey, A.R., Kosaraju, S., Chaitanya, A.K.P., Syeda, A.F., Shah, R.K., Ahmed, R., and Ayaz, S.B. Bio-marker Poster presented at: Stress Management Summit, June 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gill, M., Syeda, A.F., Adikey, A.R., Mahfodh, A.B., Manzoor, H., Ahmed,R., Sreeram,V., Ahmed,S. Medical Marijuana for curing illnesses: Panacea or Plight? At Exhibition on Addiction Research and Therapy, 4th International Conference, August 2015, Orlando, FL
• Shah, P., Chaudhari, G., Gill, M., Syeda, A.F., Adikey, A., and Moran, D. Disruptive mood dysregulation Disorder, at Wendy Klag Center for Autism, October 2015, Baltimore, MD.

Professional Organizations

American Psychiatric Association, Member. 2019 – Present

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Member. 2022-Present

American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (Arkansas). 2022 – Present