Ricardo Delcid MD, MS - Psychiatrist
Dr. Delcid is a Board Certified Psychiatrist of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with over 16 years of experience. He grew up in Houston and speaks fluently in Spanish. He pursued his undergraduate training surrounded by the natural beauty of the state of Maine at Bowdoin College, where he double majored in Biology and Sociology. He then completed a Master's Degree from the UT Houston School of Public Health with a focus in Toxicology and Environmental Sciences as it applies to public health.
Dr. Delcid ascribes to the tenet of life long learning and maintains a research oriented curiosity.
Early academic research work involved:
Collaborating with patients at the Thomas Street Clinic to gauge levels of medication genotypic resistance in the city of Houston for antiretroviral-naive HIV patients of the late 1990’s.
Measuring the presence of Parvovirus B19 in a pediatric population of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Assessing and learning of the molecular effects of pesticides on the GABA(A) Chloride Channels found in mammalian kidney cell lines
He earned his Medical Doctorate and completed his residency training here in Houston at the University of Texas Health Science Center affiliated hospitals. His hospital work in training included ample time at Memorial Hermann Hospital, LBJ Hospital, the Harris County Psychiatric Center, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
After residency he served in the Texas Medical Center as lead staff attending psychiatrist at Baylor St. Luke's Hospital and The Texas Heart Institute. His clinical strengths were treating neuropsychiatric conditions in medically complex or chronically ill patients, the safe management of age-related disorders, complex PTSD, anxiety and mixed mood disorders.
Dr. Delcid has maintained a personalized private practice in Houston’s Montrose location since 2016. For the past eight years, he has also shared his time as lead staff psychiatrist to an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT Team) program in the El Paso area. In this position, he has learned the meaning of collaborative care while working along side a dedicated and compassionate team of licensed clinical social workers and nurses to fulfill a mission of support and care to the chronically underserved and psychiatrically complex.
Dr. Delcid has varied academic interest in emerging medical sciences and neurosciences:
Nutrition as related to improving treatment outcomes (i.e Food as Medicine)
Inflammatory disorders and neuroimmunological factors related to mood and well-being
Alternative and pragmatic methods of alleviating anxiety and depression, including meditation, exercise, and adequate sleep architecture
The determinants of healthy aging and cognition
Mind body manifestations of psychiatric illness
The emerging practices of functional medicine, integrative psychiatry, and novel strategies such as ketamine assisted psychotherapy
Lower costs, sustainable approaches to the practice of medicine.
The impact of Psychodynamic therapy and attachment on neuroplasticity and neural network remodeling
