Psychiatry and sleep medicine are the two fields in which Dr. Ankur Bindal trained and was certified as a physician, and the practice he founded and led was KAB Medical Group, known as KMG Psychiatry, in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ankur Bindal started the practice in 2016 and was its CEO and President until 2025, pairing traditional psychiatric care with brain stimulation therapies. He now serves as President and Co-Founder of Aroga Group.
Patients at KMG Psychiatry received care that combined the established and the new. Dr. Bindal practiced medication management and counseling alongside Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and intranasal esketamine (Spravato), aiming to deliver the best possible outcomes. Former NFL players, professionals, other physicians and people from around the world were among the patients of the practice, and he made TMS, an innovative treatment that is also costly, available to underserved patients.
Brain stimulation was the central focus of that clinical work. TMS works as a non-invasive outpatient treatment: magnetic pulses stimulate nerve cells in the brain, improving symptoms of depression and other conditions. It is most often used for patients who haven't found relief with antidepressant medications. Ankur Bindal built the brain stimulation work at KMG Psychiatry into a high-volume practice and was named a Diamond Circle Provider, a designation reserved for the highest-volume TMS practices. In 2023 he also collected two Health Conference 2.0 honors, the Outstanding Corporation Award and the Outstanding Leadership Award.
Multiple national and regional conferences have featured him as a speaker and panelist. For Forbes Business Council, Dr. Ankur Bindal has written on subjects close to his clinical expertise: sleep habits for a restful night, seasonal depression and how business leaders can manage it, and ways to sharpen mental clarity and focus throughout the workday. He was featured in a Time piece gathering sleep doctors' best advice, in a Fox 5 San Diego segment on local psychiatrists' work to remove the stigma of anxiety and depression, and in CBS 8's You Matter segment, which compared mental health myths with effective treatments.
Dr. Bindal earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2003 at Government Medical College in Chandigarh, India. His Master of Public Health is from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, and his majors there were Clinical Research/Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Sciences. He completed two residencies: Family Medicine at Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Adult Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.
His expertise also rested on a second pillar, sleep medicine. In that field, he completed fellowship training at the University of Michigan's Department of Neurology and earned board certification. He was a co-founder of Progressive Sleep Center, Inc., as well as a co-owner and its Treasurer, and at Yuma Regional Medical Center he was Executive Medical Director, Adult Psychiatrist and Sleep Specialist. Ankur Bindal collaborated on research projects that included studies on the effect of obstructive sleep apnea on intracranial pressure, the use of CPAP among pregnant women with sleep-related breathing disorders, the effects of early-life REM deprivation on late-onset depression and hippocampal plasticity in rat models, and the effects of intermittent hypoxia in preventing myocardial infarction in dog models.
Additional leadership roles in health care included Medical Director and Adult Psychiatrist at Aligned Integrated Medical Group and Co-owner and Vice President at Pacific Health System. He was a member of the Quality Monitoring Committee at Yuma Regional Medical Center and the one at Community Health Group, as well as the Vice-Chancellor's Residents Group of Fellows on Health, Engagement, Advocacy and Leadership.
Dr. Bindal earned Diplomate certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and he received the Ed Draper Award for Outstanding Senior Resident, the Psychopharmacological Scholar's Award, the American Psychiatric Association Diversity Leadership Award, and the National Institute of Mental Health/American Academy of Clinical Psychopharmacology Award. The Arizona Psychiatric Society acknowledged him as well. His memberships covered the San Diego Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He also sat for two years on the American Psychiatric Association Member Council of Health Care Systems and Financing.
In public service, Dr. Ankur Bindal was a board member of the Department of Consumer Affairs Structural Pest Control Board for 2022 through 2025. He belonged to the Health Care Committee of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber spotlighted KAB Medical Group as a member. His name appeared on San Diego Business Journal's 2025 list of the Top 50 Most Influential Health Care Leaders and on San Diego Magazine's Top 50 People to Watch for 2026; San Diego Magazine had also included him in Faces of San Diego 2023.
Following nearly ten years at the head of KMG Psychiatry, he chose to give his full time to Aroga Group, the Southern California-based company he co-founded in 2020. He is President and Co-Founder there, and the companies under his oversight span development, management services, and residential and commercial real estate investing and holding. Setting boundaries at work and clearing mental clutter are among the workplace themes in his Forbes Business Council bylines.
Local schools, military affiliates, the YMCA, the Red Cross and professional health organizations have all received support from Ankur Bindal. He enjoys spending his time away from work with his wife, daughter and dog.
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