Takahiro Soda, MD, PhD

Dr. Soda is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. He obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Medical Scientist Training Program.

Dr. Soda completed his residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is a member of AACAP ethics committee and ISPG ethics committee.

Dr. Soda works in the Child Division and provides patient care services at the UF Health Springhill II clinic and UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital. He also conducts clinical research in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders in adults, adolescents, and children. He has an integral role in the development of research programs in both the UF Health Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment (CAN), and in the UF Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders (COARD). In addition, he serves as an important academic teacher and mentor for medical students, interns, training residents and fellows.