In this episode of Neural Compass, host Mark Jacobstein sits down with Drs. Amit and Arpan Parikh — brothers, both CMOs, both trained by watching their father practice psychiatry — for a conversation about what behavioral health is getting wrong, what it's finally getting right, and where AI belongs in all of it.
Amit runs psychiatric care for a largely Medicaid population at Brave Health. Arpan runs a multi-site outpatient group at Soul Mental Health. They came to psychiatry from different directions — one nearly became an orthopedic surgeon, the other fell for the specialty on a rotation at a high-acuity state hospital in Ohio. The lesson they both draw: what you think you know about yourself at the start of medical school is a rough draft.
New episodes every two weeks. This one is practical in the best way — two people who run clinical operations at scale, talking about what actually works.
This episode covers:
- Why measurement-based care over-rotated toward two instruments — and what better data collection actually looks like
- Why the initial assessment drives everything downstream, and what two inputs are almost never gathered for it
- The collateral problem: why getting a spouse's perspective is a coordination problem disguised as a clinical one — and why AI can solve it
- Why you can't treat a child without moving the system around them
- The budget silo problem: why payers know untreated behavioral health drives physical health costs and still can't act on it
About the Speakers
Mark Jacobstein, Host
is the co-founder and president of Jimini Health. A longtime entrepreneur at the intersection of AI and health tech, he now leads Jimini’s mission to transform mental and behavioral health through clinically grounded, AI-powered care.
Arpan Parikh, Guest
is chief medical officer at Soul Mental Health, a multi-site outpatient group in rapid growth. He fell in love with psychiatry on a rotation through a high-acuity state hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for a reason that sounds simple: he got to actually know his patients.
Amit Parikh, Guest
is chief medical officer at Brave Health, a fully virtual service delivering psychiatric care to a largely Medicaid population of adults with serious mental illness. He trained in child and adolescent psychiatry — a specialty he had specifically told himself he wouldn't go into — after realizing he preferred the clinic to the operating room, which, as he puts it, disqualifies you as a surgeon.
For healthcare executives, researchers, investors, and anyone who thinks the mental health crisis deserves serious answers — this is the show.