Chrisantha E. Anandappa, MD is a highly-anticipated and welcomed addition to the SunCloud Health team (as of January 2022).
Chrisantha graduated from University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2008 and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in 2012 and a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry in 2013. He also earned a Certificate in Sex Therapy from the University of Michigan School of Social Work. He then completed the Student Mental Health Fellowship at the University of Chicago in 2014 before joining Loyola’s campus Wellness Center as the Staff Psychiatrist from 2013 to 2017. In January 2018, he joined Compass Health Center, an Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization Program located in Chicago and worked with adult, young adult, OCD/complex anxiety, trauma and the adolescent patient populations. He recently completed the Duke University Fellowship in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in 2021.
He also is Clinical Assistant Professor at Loyola University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
He is native Chicagoan and in his spare time enjoys reading, watching films and music as well as volunteering with the Asian Health Coalition. He recently spent a fun week in Austin, TX enjoying enough music, food and museums to make up for the lack of travel in 2020.
Preferred pronouns: He, him and his.