Waheed Bajwa, MD
Waheed K. Bajwa, MD, is a board-certified adult and addiction psychiatry practitioner. Dr. Bajwa leads the experienced team at Cary Behavioral Health in Cary, North Carolina, providing the community with private practice care for over 20 years. Dr. Bajwa is highly experienced, with over 30 years as a psychiatry specialist. After graduating from King Edward Medical University in Pakistan, he completed his residency at Harlem Hospital in New York as part of Columbia University.
He then went on to a fellowship in biological psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, also in New York, under the Albert Einstein College affiliate. Dr. Bajwa is passionate about helping patients with psychiatric and mood disorders, providing public services through Milwaukee County Mental Health and Dorthea Dix in Raleigh, North Carolina. Comprehensive and compassionate care is at the top of Dr. Bajwa’s priorities.
He carefully coordinates every patient’s care with primary care doctors, specialists, and hospitalists to offer a patient-centered approach to treatment. Dr. Bajwa is devoted to helping patients overcome depression, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia, and ADHD. He provides one-of-a-kind care to every patient who comes into the practice.
Cecily Miller, PA-C
Cecily grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania and got her bachelors at the University of Pittsburgh. During school, she worked as an EMT in areas surrounding the city. She went to PA school at Chatham University, also in Pittsburgh, before moving to North Carolina. She worked in neuropsychiatry, treating patients of all ages with anxiety, depression, BPAD, OCD, ADHD, brain injuries and memory complaints. She approaches each visit without judgment and with compassion and kindness. Cecily strives to support her patients through life’s ups and downs and to be a source of positivity in their mental health journeys.
Joana Lule, PA-C
Joana is passionate about supporting patients with depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, and PTSD in finding relief and feeling empowered while doing so. Joana believes that the patient-provider relationship is sacred and holds firm the belief that mental health is the foundation to holistic wellbeing at all stages of life. She feels that it is an honor to meet each patient where they are, with openness, kindness, and centering their individual experiences, goals, and values in their care.
Joana grew up in Upstate New York and received her bachelors in Anthropology from Cornell University in New York while completing her pre-medical curriculum. She worked in clinical research, cardiology, and physical rehabilitation prior to coming to North Carolina and graduating from Duke University. Before joining the team at Cary Behavioral Health, she worked in general medicine in the hospital setting, helping to provide compassionate care to patients with a wide variety of medical conditions including neuropsychiatric brain injuries and health crises related to memory disorders, substance use disorders, and mood disorders.