The Yawkey building entrance is now closed.

As of April 29, BMC’s Yawkey building doors are closed as an entrance. All patients and visitors on our main campus must enter the hospital via the Shapiro, Menino, or Moakley buildings, where they will be greeted by team members at a new centralized check-in desk. Learn more.

About

Asma Rashid, MD, MPH, is a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a clinical assistant professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Rashid specializes in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. She enjoys providing clinical care to diverse patient populations and supporting clinical teaching and training of medical students and psychiatry residents. Dr. Rashid has advanced psychoanalytic therapy training and utilizes a psychoanalytical therapeutic approach with her patients, as well as medication management. She has extensive experience working with schools to perform psychiatric evaluations of children and teenagers struggling with mood, anxiety, attention, behavior and learning difficulties.

  • Departments

  • Specialties

    Child and adolescent psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and PTSD

  • Languages

    Hindi
  • Administrative Title

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

  • Residency

    Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, 2005-2008
  • Fellowship

    Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 2008-2010
  • Education

    King Edward Medical University, 2005
  • Board Certifications

    Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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