Baris Ercal

Additional Titles & Roles

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• Staff Psychiatrist at Student Health Services (Danforth Campus)
• Assistant Division Director for Adult Outpatient Services

Education & Training

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• Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2021
• Ph.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2017
• M.D.: Washington University in St Louis, 2017
• B.A.: Harvard University, 2010
• B.A.: Harvard University, 2010

Areas of Clinical Interest

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Baris Ercal, MD is a general adult psychiatrist and also serves as a staff psychiatrist at student mental health services for undergraduate and graduate students at Washington University. His clinical interests are broad and include anxiety, treatment resistant depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, and thought disorders. He uses a combination of psychopharmacology and various psychotherapy approaches to treat patients. He is also involved in consultations and treatments for adult interventional psychiatry clinic including ketamine, esketamine, and transcranial magnetic stimulation treatments.

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Recent Publications

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• Trends in the psychedelic renaissance: applying artificial intelligence to measure media portrayal of psychedelic drugs in the 21st century

  Bender, D. A., Dunn, H. M., Pekau, A., Mohite, A. D., Anandarajah, A., Ross, B. D., Steinle, J., Shankar, S., Kiley, B., Martin, S., Gonuguntla, R., Stonov, M., Pippala, N., Abdalla, R., Stille, M. K., Yusuf, J., Villalba, M., Werner, G., Divekar, A. & Daniels-Tineo, M. & 14 others, Wang, H., Chertock, S., Sharma, S., Ahmed, S. A., Bandyopadhyay, R., Sridhar, J., Iyer, M., Adeyemi, A., Smart, K., Jalil, U., Alam, Z., Ercal, B. C., Hellerstein, D. J. & Nemeroff, C. B., Feb 12 2026, In: BJPsych Open. 12, 2, e63.

• Psychedelic Therapies: One Drug, Multiple Treatments: Reply to Modesto-Lowe et al

  Bender, D. A., Nayak, S. M., Siegel, J. S., Hellerstein, D. J., Ercal, B. C. & Lenze, E. J., Dec 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 86, 4, 25lr15978a.

• Psychological Support Approaches in Psychedelic Therapy: Results From a Survey of Psychedelic Practitioners

  Bender, D. A., Nayak, S. M., Siegel, J. S., Hellerstein, D. J., Ercal, B. C. & Lenze, E. J., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 86, 1, 24m15521.

• Provider perspectives on challenges in treatment during psychedelic therapy

  Bender, D. A., Nayak, S. M., Siegel, J. S., Hellerstein, D. J., Ercal, B. C. & Lenze, E. J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychopharmacology.

• Executive Function Moderates Functional Outcomes of Engagement Strategies during Rehabilitation in Older Adults

  Ercal, B., Rodebaugh, T. L., Bland, M. D., Barco, P., Lenard, E., Lang, C. E., Miller, J. P., Yingling, M. & Lenze, E. J., 2021, In: American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 100, 7, p. 635-642 8 p.

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