Psychoanalytic psychiatry was on the wane and University Departments were transforming. This was the period when biological psychiatry and psychopharmacology were developing. The first wave of immigrants who pursued academic psychiatry arrived in the 1960s, to settle in the largest cities of Canada and the USA. We describe the researchers and their contributions in three chronological waves over the 50-year period. In developing the data base for this article, several methods of data gathering were used, including searching through (1) Web pages and faculty rosters of major Departments of Psychiatry published on the web, (2) Google Scholar, (3) Forum – a publication of the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, and (4) a brief survey of 25 known Indian psychiatric academicians, as well as the personal knowledge and observations of the author.
In this brief review, we present the contributions of this body of researchers, and make the first known attempt at tabulating Indo-American psychiatric researchers. Psychiatric Medicine has benefited from sustained and outstanding contributions of many academicians of Indian origin during this time. The Indian diaspora that has migrated to North America over the last 50 years, from 1960 until now, has established itself as a formidable intellectual force in Science, Engineering, Technology, Medicine, Education, Literature, and other fields.
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