Dr. Asim Shah, MD holds the Barbara & Corbin J. Robertson Jr. Chair in Psychiatry, and is Executive Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry, Family and Community Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, and Chief of Psychiatry for Ben Taub Hospital/Harris Health System. He is also Chief, Division of Community Psychiatry & Director of Mood Disorder Research Program at Ben Taub Hospital.
Dr. Shah has done numerous media presentations to National and International Radio/TV/Newspapers and has widely presented both nationally and internationally. He is seen on FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, PBS as expert analyst. He has over 175 peer reviewed publications and chapters to his credit and two books. He has been named by Houstonia magazine and Castle Connolly on their Top Doctors list for Houston since 2013 every year, and received it in 2023 also. He has received the prestigious “Clark Faculty Service Award” from Baylor College of Medicine in 2020, for his services for the community, and also received “Allies of Women of Excellence award”. He has received two Fulbright and Jaworski Awards, one for “Teaching and Evaluation” in 2012, and other for “Educational Leadership” in 2014. He further received “Rising Star Clinician Award” from Baylor in 2014. He received Children Mental Health Champion AWARD from Mental Health America in 2018. He was appointed to the Texana Center Board of Trustees in August 2019.
He is the current Chair for Mental Health America of Greater Houston, Board Chair for Alliance Texas, an refugees settlement agency and the Board Chair for Recovery Center Houston/Sobering Center appointed by Mayor of Houston for a 3 year term in 2021. In 2020, he received “Medal of Honor” from Government of Pakistan, and was included in Foreign Minister’s Honor roll list. Pakistan Psychiatric society named him “Most Eminent Psychiatrist” in 2020.
He received the prestigious Imma Hogg Award from Mental Health America for 2022, joining the club of William P. Hobby, and John P. McGovern. In 2023, American Psychiatric Association (APA) board of trustees elected him as a Distinguished Fellow of APA. Just recently he was honored by Royal College of Physician’s Edinburgh as a Fellow of the college for his work in the field.
Dr. Quianta Moore, MD, JD, is the Executive Director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health. Her work with the Center is focused on creating transformative change by leveraging the resources, skill, and policy expertise of the broader Meadows Institute to advance evidence-based, community-informed policies, programs, and practices and scale them.
Dr. Moore recently served as the Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy where her research focused on developing empirically informed policies to advance the health of children. Dr. Moore utilizes mixed methodologies, including community-based participatory research and surveys, to gain insight into the health needs of communities and to develop data-driven, tailored health policy recommendations. Moreover, she helps funders and community stakeholders develop strategies to support an equitable future for children and their communities.
She was given a proclamation by Mayor Sylvester Turner acknowledging the impact of her work in the greater Houston area and is also a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leader.
Dr. Moore received an MD from Baylor College of Medicine, a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Cornell University.
