Dr. Huma Mahmood is a double Board Certified Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatrist and Dual Diagnosis/Addiction Specialist who practices in the Greater Philadelphia. Dr. Mahmood earned her undergraduate degree from the Tufts University in Medford, MA, where she was a majored in Pre-Medicine and Child Development. Dr. Mahmood went on to earn her medical school degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-SOM, where she focused on Psychiatrist and Neurology and volunteered at the Child Abuse Research Education & Service Institute working with child abuse victims.
She completed a post-doctoral training in a rigorous, three-year general psychiatry residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. During her residency training, Dr. Mahmood worked in at the Germantown Crisis Response Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Mahmood went on to attend the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship program at Thomas Jefferson University where she was nominated and served as the Chief Resident during her second year.
Dr. Mahmood went on to obtain her Board Certification in Psychiatry and Neurology and then her subspecialty Board Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In addition to her rapidly expanding private practice on the Main Line, Dr. Mahmood also works as a Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatrist at The Horsham Clinic in Ambler, PA where she runs an acute Dual Diagnosis inpatient unit.
Dr. Mahmood comes from a family of physicians and understands the importance of practicing effective patient care. Dr. Mahmood is well regarded by her colleagues as evident by her nomination for the Doctors’ Choice Awards in 2015. She received the Doctors’ Choice Award for Top Psychiatrist in the nation in October 2015, Doctors’ Choice Award for Top Adolescent Psychiatrist in Philadelphia in 2015 and Patients’ Choice Awards in 2014 & 2015. In 2016 Dr. Mahmood was voted in the TOP 100 Doctor’s in the nation. She is often described as being ‘compassionate’ ‘professional’ and ‘dedicated’ to her patients.