Ketamine Researcher, Advocate and Practitioner with Over 35 Years' Clinical and Research Experience in Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Conditions

Terrence Early (He Him)

Medical Doctor | MD

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After completing medical school and a psychiatric residency, Dr. Early joined the faculty at Washington University and initially did research in brain imaging and cognitive studies. He later became interested in developing novel treatments for refractory psychiatric illness, and beginning in 1999 he received grants to compare high dose sevoflurane to other therapies for treatment resistant mood disorders. In 2007, he collaborated with a pain specialist at Baylor, studying ketamine therapy in patients with pain and psychiatric illness and saw first hand the robust effects of this treatment. He also encountered the resistance that is uniformly experienced by investigators attempting to introduce ketamine into institutional settings, and realized that the main obstacles to patients accessing this treatment were financial and regulatory. His experience with sevoflurane made it clear that even very safe, effective treatments may not become available if they do not get past these obstacles. He decided to leave academia and attempt to introduce ketamine into routine psychiatric practice in 2009 and was the first psychiatrist to offer subanesthetic ketamine in a psychiatric private practice in an affordable, safe, and effective manner in California. He has mentored many physicians in the use of outpatient ketamine and is a board member of the Ketamine Research Foundation.

Interventional Psychiatry Associates

1913 State St

Santa Barbara, California, 93101

United States

Background

Years in practice

35+

School: Duke University School of Medicine

Graduated: 1982

Degree: MD

NPI Number

1811057946

Additional Training

Psychiatry Residency, Washington University

Other Affiliations

Ketamine Research Foundation

Payment & Insurance

Accepting new clients?

Yes

Services & Specialties

Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Trauma

Patient Focus

Knowledge
  • Ketamine

Client Reviews

4 Reviews on “Ketamine Researcher, Advocate and Practitioner with Over 35 Years' Clinical and Research Experience in Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Conditions”

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  • Jennifer

    Dr. Early saved my life. I was VERY depressed and Dr. Early really took the time to get to know my situation and resolved the problem I had been having for years with a half dozen other Psychiatrists who could not help me. I am so very impressed and grateful to have a life that is now manageable.
  • Anonymous

    Once you have met with Dr. Early, you will need to see no other psychiatrist. I have seen many and he is so far beyond the others in expertise and sheer humanity that it is laughable. He is far, far, ahead of his colleagues. Such a treasure, and a true healer. You are in good hands with him.
  • Anonymous

    I trust Dr. Early’s opinion implicitly. I can ask him anything and not feel judged.
  • Anthony

    I honestly can’t say enough positive things about Dr. Early, all of the other doctor’s I’ve seen have made my condition so much worse but Dr. Early is the first doctor to give me relief from horrific bipolar depression and mood swings. I don’t have fits of rage or feel like I’m going to explode all the time anymore and the depression is so much easier to bear.

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