Dr. Karandikar brings over 20 years of nursing experience to the practice, having worked in critical care settings internationally in the United Kingdom and India. She earned her DNP with honors at Duke University School of Nursing and her MSN in the Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Program from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she graduated with top honors and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International.
She previously practiced at the Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Services, PLLC, and at WakeMed Hospital. She is board certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and is a member of the American Nurses Association, the North Carolina Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Trained Nurses Association of India, and the Royal College of Nursing, United Kingdom.
Specialty Areas
- Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum
- Bipolar Disorder
- Head/Brain Trauma
- Cognitive Disorder
- Dementia
- Depression
- Developmental Disability
- Dissociative Disorder
- Eating Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Personality Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia