medical advisors
The Ryyan Chacra Foundation is a fortunate beneficiary of the generous support of a number of professionals who uphold the Foundation’s very reason for being–to honor Ryyan’s life and struggle by shedding light on the importance of understanding brain disorders, especially OCD, and in so doing, help others.
Rachel Davis, MD, DFAPA
Medical Director, CU Anschutz Department of Psychiatry OCD Program
Rachel A. Davis, MD, DFAPA, is a Professor and Division Chair of Adult Psychiatry, Medical Director of OCD Program and interventional psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She lives with OCD and depression and brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to her work.
In her professional and personal life, Dr. Davis has seen how OCD shapes perception—intensifying meaning, responsibility, and doubt, while also influencing creativity and moral seriousness. She understands what it means to experience the world through a different lens, and how understanding OCD from the inside can deepen compassion, reduce shame, and open space for more honest conversations about suffering and survival.
Eleanore M. Hall, Psy.D.
Psychologist and Clinical Director, WholeMind Psychology
Eleanore Hall, Psy.D, is a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of youth OCD, anxiety, and related disorders. In addition to her clinical work in private practice, she is passionate about OCD education and raising awareness of evidence-based therapies to help close the OCD treatment gap. Drawing on her own lived experience with OCD, Dr. Hall understands many of the unique challenges faced by young people with OCD and anxiety, as well as by their families. She is honored to support the Ryyan Chacra Foundation’s mission and expand access to quality care in Ryyan’s memory.
Moksha Patel, MD, MBA
Hospitalist and Assistant Professor, CU Anschutz
Moksha Patel, MD, is an internal medicine physician specializing in hospital care and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is also a life-long OCD warrior, having dealt with the crippling disease since his early childhood. Moksha holds a unique position of having to deal with OCD from both sides of the divide – as an MD and as a patient. A journey that helped him realize that anxiety, OCD and related brain disorders are rooted in physiology. And that brain health can be greatly helped when the right insights and timely interventions can produce life-altering change. Moksha’s journey toward taming OCD staged two critical successes; first, by being able to break his silence about OCD and become his own best advocate; second, by becoming one of 300 candidates nationwide to undergo Deep Brain Stimulation surgery - a potentially life-saving medical intervention that offers hope by charting pathways to better accommodate brain disorders.