Zahra Naqvi, MD
Dr. Zahra Naqvi earned her MD from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) in 2014, and joined WCM-Q in January 2022 as an assistant professor of psychiatry. She previously served as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Albany Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry and as an attending psychiatrist in the Albany Med Health System.
Dr. Naqvi is board-certiļ¬ed in psychiatry and completed her residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2018, where she was resident outpatient department chief during her third year.
An advocate for psychosocial wellbeing and education in the prevention of mental illness, Dr. Naqvi has participated in the planning of events and advocacy efforts focused on women’s mental health with the United Nations (UN) and worked directly with the vice chair of the committee on mental health to bring mental health conversations onto the global agenda at the UN. She has a special interest in women’s mental health, including postpartum depression and other mental health issues unique to women, such as pregnancy loss and infertility.