Mark Vakkur, M.D., P.C.


I am a board-certified psychiatrist based in Atlanta, Georgia.* I offer a wide array of treatment services, from medication management to psychotherapy. I am most interested in working with adolescents and young adults, particularly students and veterans, although I treat and evaluate a wide array of age groups and disorders.
* Our family is currently (as of 2009) deployed overseas for 2-5 years, after which I intend to return.I am unable to offer telemedicine services as planned, but am pursuing a work-around. Stay tuned...
My forwarding address is: 5120 Geneva Place, Dulles, VA 20189

Please click here for a Referral List - Clinicians in the area I highly recommend.
Quick links:

2200 Century Parkway
Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30345


Mailing address:
5120 Geneva Place
Dulles, VA 20189
877-512-4854 Toll free (please note that this is a change)
Fax: 877-512-4854 * confidential efax number; no cover sheet necessary. *
Email: mvakkur@gmail.com

Skype: mark.vakkur



Notice of Privacy Practices: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires that I provide you with a statement of my policies to protect your privacy.
Release of Information Form: complete this form if you want to authorize someone else, such as your primary care physician, to release information to me or use this form if you want to authorize me to speak with or release medical records to a third party. Without a signed release of information form on file, I cannot communicate anything about your care to a non-guardian third person, including scheduling times or administrative details.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy log: use this worksheet to help work through automatic negative thoughts.

Client and patient links:

Frequently asked questions about:


Consider taking this online depression screening test.
: major depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression).


from a talk I gave for the Skyland Trail family program.



Additional Topics (also check out my alphabetical Psychiatric Topic Index)
Child Psychiatry
Human Behavior Tutorial:  an online tutorial I put together for the Emory School of Medicine Human Behavior course.
Medication Information  Drugs.com is a good site where you can look up information by medication or condition, including links to professional monographs, articles, side effects, clinical trials, and much more.
Medscape  for (relatively) unbiased, research-based medical information. Also check out www.webmd.com or National Institute of Mental Health.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Trauma in Children

How do I ...


Get More Sleep?
Get More Exercise?
Eat a healthy, well-balanced diet?
Get Organized (Simplify My Life)?
Meditate?
Swallow pills (for kids and their parents)?
Save Money?
Get a discount on your medications: call 1-800-444-4106: Together Rx Access www.TogetherRxAccess.com
or order them from Canada.

 

 

Problems with insurance?

Call the Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance Consumer Services Division 404 656 2070

 

Concerned About Healthcare in America?

Get involved:

NAMI Georgia: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill : a great educational and advocacy resource.

- Visit Families USA: "a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, we have earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for over 20 years." Sign up, get involved! It's your healthcare system.

- Visit the Carter Center's web site; they are doing some excellent work advocating for, among other things, parity in mental health coverage.

- Call, write, or email your elected officials to let them know where you stand. Be brief but persistent. They tally responses from constituents. They work for YOU!