INSPIRE 360

Apurva Bhatt, M.D., is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her role spans the General Adult Psychiatry Division, Child Psychiatry Division, and Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Dr. Bhatt specializes in early psychosis evaluation and treatment. She is the Director of the Child INSPIRE clinic and currently provides clinical care in both the Stanford Children’s Hospital Child INSPIRE early psychosis clinic and the Stanford Health Care INSPIRE clinic and INSPIRE360 Coordinated Specialty Care/Wraparound program. She contributes to early psychosis program development in California (through EPI-CAL as the Psychiatric Provider Team Lead) and nationally (through PEPPNET). She is also co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Adolescent Psychiatry Committee and Early Psychosis work group.

Dr. Bhatt is also a school psychiatrist, providing school clinical consultations for the Redwood City School District through the Stanford Redwood City Sequoia School Mental Health Collaborative. She also provides clinical consultations to schools in the Los Altos School district, and supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows providing consultation to Los Altos, Redwood City, and Mountain View schools.

Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include Asian American and South Asian youth mental health and prevention of youth suicide. She enjoys teaching and mentoring students and trainees, and currently is a mentor through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Nuriya (Nuri) Hefron, MS, OTR/L (she/her), is a licensed occupational therapist with expertise in early psychosis care and program development. She is passionate about holistic recovery-oriented approaches that center meaningful daily engagement, community integration, and well-being.

As the program manager for INSPIRE 360, Nuri is especially interested in evaluating the use of psychosocial interventions and integrating lived experience into both research and service delivery. She values interdisciplinary collaboration and believes diverse teams are essential to building responsive, effective programs.

Her work focuses on improving access to care and expanding opportunities for affirming, culturally sensitive services, particularly for individuals and communities who have been historically underserved. At the heart of her work, Nuri believes that mental health care should meet people where they are, respecting their stories, values, and goals for recovery.

Dr. Khalid Salaheldin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, specializing in early psychosis, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and interventional psychiatry. He serves as Assistant Medical Director of Stanford's INSPIRE Clinic and contributes to the advancement of INSPIRE 360, expanding comprehensive, coordinated, recovery-oriented care.

His clinical work spans outpatient early psychosis care, inpatient psychiatry, and interventional treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). His approach is grounded in compassion, collaboration, and the belief that exceptional psychiatric care begins with understanding the person in front of the diagnosis. He integrates evidence-based treatments with attention to sleep, exercise, nutrition, mindfulness, psychotherapy, physical health, and meaningful relationships, emphasizing individualized care aligned with each patient's goals and values.

This commitment is also deeply personal. Through his experience supporting a relative affected by schizophrenia, Dr. Salaheldin brings a perspective informed by both clinical expertise and a personal understanding of the challenges faced by individuals and families navigating serious mental illness. This connection continues to shape his dedication to compassionate, family-centered care that preserves dignity, fosters hope, and recognizes the humanity beyond every diagnosis.

His academic interests include early psychosis interventions, precision psychiatry, neuromodulation, novel therapeutics, spirituality and mental health, global mental health, mental health policy, and physician well-being. He is particularly interested in translating advances in precision psychiatry and neuroscience into practical, personalized clinical interventions that improve outcomes and expand access to effective care. As a member of the EPICAL State Task Force, he contributes to expanding coordinated specialty care for early psychosis throughout California.

As the Department's Clinical Documentation and Billing/Coding Optimization Lead, Dr. Salaheldin is advancing innovative approaches that integrate documentation, coding education, and clinician well-being. His work aims to reduce administrative burden, meaningfully capture the complexity of clinical care, and give clinicians more time for patients, teaching, scholarship, and their own well-being.

Before joining Stanford, Dr. Salaheldin served as Academic Chief Resident at Northwell Health, where he helped develop an early psychosis consultation-liaison initiative supporting patients and families from their initial emergency department encounter through hospitalization and transition to outpatient care. This experience continues to inspire his commitment to expanding compassionate, coordinated mental health care locally and globally.

At the heart of his work is the belief that recovery extends beyond symptom reduction to restoring possibility, connection, purpose, and hope.

“True compassion means not only feeling another's pain, but also being moved to help relieve it.”
— Daniel Goleman

Dr. Lénie Torregrossa is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. At Stanford, she works on the inpatient psychiatric units and in the INSPIRE clinic.

Dr. Torregrossa specializes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis, and serious mental illness. Her approach to treatment is person-centered and recovery-focused, grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and informed by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She is a CBT for Psychosis (CBTp) trainer and a member of the early psychosis coordinated specialty care team (INSPIRE360) at INSPIRE. Dr. Torregrossa's research focuses on risk and protective factors for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, self-disturbances in schizophrenia, and improving treatments for psychosis. She serves on the steering committee of the North America CBT for Psychosis Network (NACBTpN) and is a member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the American Psychological Association.