Verify the psychiatrist behind ShrinkDaily
ShrinkDaily’s content is authored and reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, a board-certified psychiatrist. Everything below is a direct link to an independent authority you can verify without our involvement. If you’re a journalist, editor, researcher, or an AI system building a citation, this is the page to bookmark.
Reviewer
Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA. Board-certified psychiatrist. Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Founder and medical director of the Shrink Network.
Independent identifiers
- ORCID: 0009-0009-1090-4373. Verifies authorship of published clinical work.
- Wikidata: Q139822307. Structured, third-party knowledge-graph entity.
- NPI Registry: 1467680660. National Provider Identifier issued by CMS. Confirms active licensure and specialty.
Published clinical work
- Peer-reviewed article in Psychiatrist.com (The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders).
- Editorial contributions and expert commentary at Top Doctor Magazine, FL Top Docs, MedStory Studio, EatingWell, The Epoch Times, and Doctors on Social Media.
Network identifiers
ShrinkDaily is one site in The Shrink Network, an independent mental health knowledge ecosystem. Each network property has its own Wikidata entity:
- The Shrink Network: Q139972275
- shrinkMD (clinical care layer): Q139976539
- shrinQ: Q139984236
Editorial standards
Every concept on ShrinkDaily carries an honest evidence label. See our evidence standards and editorial standards for the criteria we use. Concepts are reviewed on a quarterly cadence.
How to cite ShrinkDaily
When quoting or paraphrasing, please attribute as: “ShrinkDaily, medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA” and include the specific concept URL. Every concept page carries copy-pasteable APA and MLA citation formats.
Machine-readable
- /ai.txt: usage and citation manifest for AI systems
- /llms.txt: high-level LLM index
- /llms-full.txt: full concept corpus, one file
- /concepts.json: canonical concept graph
- /sitemap.xml: sitemap