Neeral
Sheth
Neeral Sheth
- Campus Chicago, IL IllinoisCOM
- DepartmentSurgery and Specialty Medicine
- InstitutionThe Chicago School
Biography
Dr. Sheth is an award-winning medical educator who has prioritized teaching and mentoring the next generation of physicians throughout his career. He earned his B.A. degree in Biology at Northwestern University and his D.O. degree at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at Rush Medical College, where he served as the chief resident during his final year of training. As a board-certified Psychiatrist and Addiction Medicine physician, Dr. Sheth emphasizes harm-reduction, trauma-informed and identity-affirming approaches in his clinical work.
Dr. Sheth has designed, implemented, and directed behavioral health curricula targeting gaps in medical education and garnering institutional, local, and national recognition for his innovative work. Before joining ILCOM, he spent several years serving as the Director of Medical Education in Psychiatry for both the pre-clerkship and clerkship phases at Rush Medical College. Prior to that he was the Interim Director for Medical Education in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.
Notable awards include the Leonard Tow Faculty Award for Humanism in Medicine, the Daniel Brainard Award for Excellence in Pre-Clerkship Teaching, Illinois Psychiatric Society's Educator of the Year Award, multiple Innovations in Medical Education Awards, and a Scholarly Publication of the Year Award.
Education History
Degree Institution Year B.A. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2007 D.O Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Downers Grove, IL 2011 Psychiatry Residency Rush University, Chicago, IL 2015 Presentations
Title Location Date Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workshop Chicago, IL 2025 Behavioral Health for the Non-Psychiatrist Downers Grove, IL 2024 Getting over ‘get over it’: building the future of trauma-informed medical education. Pittsburg, PA 2024 Wellness workshop: focusing on purpose and cognitive flexibility Chicago, IL 2024 Enhancing autonomy & learning in outpatient psychiatry Milwaukee, IL 2024 Trauma-informed care in the context of human trafficking Chicago, IL 2022 Introduction to trauma-informed care Webinar 2021 Transgender health and gender-affirming care: incorporating lived experiences into medical education Virtual (due to COVID) 2020 Shining a light on military sexual trauma San Francisco, CA 2019 Homosexuality: culture, law and medicine – the Indian perspective San Francisco, CA 2019 Publications
Journal Pickerl P, Sorrell T, Blue M, Patterson K, Sheth N, Givens S (2025). Racial issues in psychiatry: a thematic analysis of an initial health equity educational activity for medical students. BMC Med Ethics, 26 (1), 53.
Sheth NK, Wilson AB, West JC, Schilling DC, Rhee SH, Napier TC. (2025). Effects of Stigmatizing Language on Trainees' Clinical Decision-Making in Substance Use Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Acad Psych, 49 (2), 126-135.
Bunting, S.R., Woodruff, J.N, Vidyasagar, N, Sheth, N.K., Spitz, D., Babcock, C., & Arora, V (2024). Parallel-application to residency training programs in the United States: trends and differences by applicant educational background, 2009-2021. Acad Med, 100 (2), 170-178.
Bunting, Samuel R. MD, MSHA; Feinstein, Brian A. PhD; Vidyasagar, Nitin BS; Sheth, Neeral K. DO; Yu, Roger BS; Hazra, Aniruddha MD (2024). Psychiatry and family medicine residents’ likelihood of prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to patients with mental illness and HIV vulnerability. JAIDS, 96 (3), 231-240.
Bunting, S.R., Vidyasagar, N, Sheth, N.K., Khisty, R.S., & Spitz, D (2024). Parallel application to U.S. psychiatry residency programs: trends in frequency and differences by applicant group, 2009-2021. Acad Psych, 48,135-142.
Brennan EF, Markopoulos A, Rodriguez J, Sheth NK, Shah N (2023). Addressing a gap in medical school training: identifying and caring for human trafficking survivors using trauma-informed care. MedEdPORTAL, 19,11304.
Tobin, V., Sheth, N.K., Thompson, H.M. and Karnik, N.S (2022). Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning/Queer Two-Spirit Adolescents and Suicidality. Adol Psych, 12 (3), 207-223.
Bunting, S.R., Feinstein, B.A., Calabrese, S.K., Hazra, A., Sheth, N.K., Wang, G. & Garber, S.S. (2022). Role of social biases, race, and condom use in willingness to prescribe HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis to MSM: an experimental, vignette-based study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 91 (4), 353-363.
Thompson HM, Sharma B, Smith D, Bhalla S, Erondu I, Hazra A, Ilyas Y, Pachwicewicz P, Sheth NK, Chhabra N, Karnik NS, Afshar M (2022). Machine learning techniques to explore clinical presentations of COVID-19 disease severity and to test the association with unhealthy opioid use (UOU): retrospective cross-sectional cohort study. JMIR Public Health Surveill, 8 (12),
Bunting, S.R., Feinstein, B.A., Calabrese, S.K., Hazra, A., Sheth, N.K., Chen, A.F., & Garber, S.S (2022). Assumptions about Patients Seeking PrEP: Exploring the Effects of Patient and Sexual Partner Race and Gender Identity and the Moderating Role of Implicit Racism.. PLoS ONE, 17 (7),
Bunting SR, Feinstein BA, Hazra A, Sheth NK, Garber SS. (2021). Knowledge of HIV and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among medical and pharmacy students: A national, multi-site, cross-sectional study.. Prev Med Rep, 24,101590.
Thompson, H., Coleman, J.A., Iyengar, R., Phillips, S., Kent, P.M., Sheth, N (2020). Evaluation of a gender affirming healthcare curriculum for second-year medical students. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 96,515-519.
Professional Skills
Medical Education, Behavioral Health, Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, LGBTQ+ Health