R P Beniwal

Dr RP Beniwal

He is a Professor & Consultant at the Department of Psychiatry & Drug De-addiction, Centre of Excellence in Mental Health, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Science & Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.

He has completed the WHO Fellowship from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA and the WHO Fellowship from Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine, England, U.K. He has many research publications to his credit in reputed national and international journals. He has presented papers and symposia in various national and international scientific meetings and has also delivered ~ 100 talks in All India Radio and TV channels on topics covering mental health and well being. He is a member of a number of national and international scientific bodies.

Dr. Prajakta Patkar
Prajakta has completed her post doctoral fellowship in child and adolescent mental health from Nair hospital, Mumbai.
She’s working as an Assistant Professor at department of Psychiatry at Nair hospital where she closely works with the fellows with regards to clinical and academic work. She is currently an Executive committee member at the IACAM, joint Secretary at the Bombay Psychiatry Society and is on the PG education subcommittee at the IPS – West Zone. Apart from that, she’s a part of the Early Career Groups at the IACAPAP AND WPA.
Prajakta is keenly interested in research and teaching in the field of CAMH and Perinatal Psychiatry and is actively working on it.

Dr. Gagan Hans is currently working as Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi. He is a clinician, teacher, and investigator in multiple funded projects by ICMR, SERB and AIIMS. He has Over 50 publications in various international/national journals and contributed multiple chapters in various books. He is a rrecipient of Young Psychiatrist Track Award 2016 at the XXII Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry, New Delhi, India, November 2016, and International Fellow Award at 6th Young Psychiatrist Network Meeting at Bohnice, Prague, Sept 2017.
He served as Faculty Resource Person for National Conclave on Autism in May 2023 at National Institute of Social Defense (NISD) Auditorium, Sector-10 Dwarka, Delhi. He has delivered many public lectures, interviews in print media and television channels for increasing awareness about psychiatric disorders. He has served as invited co- editor for Special Theme Issue on “Student Wellness” of Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry in May-June 2021. He was Joint Organizing Secretary of IASP Online CME on “Medical Students Wellness: Challenges and Initiatives” in July 2021, Joint Organizing Secretary of Indian Association of Social Psychiatry (IASP) CME on “Interdisciplinary Dialogues around Psychiatry”, September 2022 and Joint Organizing Secretary of Indian Psychiatry Society (IPS) AIIMS CME on “Combined Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy” in October 2023. He also served as subject expert on Clinical Practice Guidelines for assessment and management of patients with borderline personality disorder under the aegis of Indian Psychiatric Society in August 2022 at Jaipur.

N. Prasanna Kumar

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
M.B.B.S from Rangaraya Medical college, Kakinada.
M.D. PSYCHIATRY from Andhra Medical college, Visakhapatnam.
DM-Child and Adolescent psychiatry from NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
DESIGNATION: PROFESSOR, Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam.
EXPERIENCE:
• Worked as Asst professor of psychiatry in N.R.I MEDICAL COLLEGE /N.R.I HOSPITAL-GUNTUR from 2009 to 2010
• Worked as Assistant professor of psychiatry, Osmania medical college/Psychiatrist at Institute Of Mental Health (IMH Hyderabad) –Erragadda, Hyderabad from 2010 to 2016
• Associate professor at Andhra Medical college /Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic at GHMC, Visakhapatnam.
• Consultant psychiatrist at Mahaveer hospital, Hyderabad.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Rainbow Hospitals, Visakhapatnam.
CONTINOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
• Speaker at World conferences at WPA and WASP
• Speaker at National conference(ANCIPS), south zone conference(IPSOSCON) and SAARCPSYCON
• Speaker in National seminars, open forums on psychiatric topics
• Chairing sessions in CMEs as co-Chairpersons.
• Authored Chapter on Anxiety disorders in Reputed Text book of Undergraduate Psychiatry by Indian Psychiatric Society-Jaypee Publishers
• Presented research papers at zonal conference /awarded best research paper/posters at SAARCPSYCON
• Speaker for training doctors &Speaker for programmes conducted for Judges and Police officials.
• Published various Research Papers at peer reviewed journals.
• Attended as speaker for TV Programmes /caller-phone in live programmes in TV9;VANITA TV etc.
• Attended conferences and CME’S at National ,international, Zonal and state levels

Shekhar Seshadri

Dr Shekhar is a child psychiatrist with over 35 years of experience in the field of child mental health. As Former Senior Professor in the Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS, his work has extended beyond the clinical population to children and child care institutions/ service providers across the country as well as the South Asia region.
Some of his special areas of interest are childhood trauma, gender and sexuality issues and life skill education. Also, an artist and musician, he uses a number of creative methodologies in child mental health interventions including theatre and developmental approaches.
In the belief that wider psychosocial interventions are rooted in child rights, in addition to his preventive-promotive and curative child mental health interventions, he has undertaken various legal and policy-related initiatives. He was part of national deliberations on the POCSO Act 2012 during its drafting, and more recently an active part of the debates around the December 2015 Juvenile Justice Act. He has also engaged extensively as a member of working groups of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on issues such as substance abuse and elimination of corporal punishment in school.
Finally, all his policy and practice work find its way into training and capacity building programs for target audiences ranging from students of mental health disciplines and mental health care professional in clinical settings to child care service providers in non-clinical settings, including community health workers, teachers, government and non-government staff and counsellors and Judicial personnel.
The NIMHANS Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Project, was conceptualized and initiated by Dr Shekhar, as part of his vision for enabling access to mental health for the most vulnerable child populations. This has now extended into SAMVAD (Support, Advocacy & Mental health interventions for children in Vulnerable circumstances And Distress – A National Initiative & Integrated Resource for Child Protection, Mental Health, & Psychosocial Care), supported by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India.
YouTube Resource:
http://www.youtube.com/c/NIMHANSChildProtection

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childprotectnimhans

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nimhans_CPC

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nimhanschildprotect/

Dr Nidhi Malhotra

Dr. Nidhi Malhotra has completed MD in Psychiatry from PGIMER, Chandigarh. She is currently working as Associate Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry at Dr. BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences, Mohali, Punjab. She has more than 10 years of experience in teaching in Psychiatry and is an avid academician.
Her areas of interest include child psychiatry, medical student wellness, occupational stress and rehabilitation psychiatry besides general adult Psychiatry. In child psychiatry, she has special interest in autism and mental health issues of vulnerable children. She was awarded fellowship in Implementation Research in mental health in 2020, has many publications to her credit and has participated in multiple conferences.

Dr Anurag Verma

•M.B.B.S.- from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

•Was awarded College Colors and was Cricket Captain in college.

•M.D.,D.P.M. from Grant Medical College, Mumbai.

•Certificate Course in Rogerian Supportive Psychotherapy and C.B.T.

•Certificate Course in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

•Awarded Fellowship of I.P.S.2011 and Fellow of IACAM 2021 (INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

• Presently working as Consultant Psychiatrist at MLN Medical college Prayagraj. UP

• Life member of I.P.S.,IACAM, CZP Society.

• Past Editor – A.M.A.

• Vice President – I.M.A.-AMS (ALLAHABAD).

• Area of interest in Sports Psychology and Depressive illness and Deaddiction.

• Has published more than 15 papers in Psychiatric and Medical Journals.

• Has contributed a chapter in API on Cognitive manifestations of Hypothyroidism

• Attended various National and International Conferences as Faculty and presented papers.

• Guide in Postgraduate thesis and Co-supervised in the Dept of Medicine and Psychiatry.

Dr Harshini N

Dr. Harshini Manohar is currently working as Assistant professor, Department of Child and Adolescent psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS),
Bangalore.

She is affiliated to NIMHANS since 2019.

Completed DM (super specialty) in Child and Adolescent psychiatry, NIMHANS in June 2022.

Post-doctoral fellowship in Child and Adolescent psychiatry (2019) at JIPMER.

Worked as a senior Resident in Child Psychiatry at St. John’s medical college, Bangalore (2018).

Completed MD (Psychiatry) at JIPMER Puducherry (2017).

She has a keen interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, parent-mediated interventions, and psychotherapy. She had worked and published in the area of early interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. She has many national and international publications to her credit.

Dr Anju Dhawan

MD Psychiatry in 1993 from AIIMS Delhi (Gold Medal)

Professor, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi
and Faculty in-charge Adolescent Treatment Services at NDDTC, AIIMS

Running an Adolescent Drug Abuse Treatment Clinic from 2003 at NDDTC
• Been the principal investigator for –
1) Nationwide study on Assessment of pattern, profile and correlates of substance use in children funded by NCPCR in 2012-13
2) Study on Mapping and Size Estimation of Street Children Who Use Drugs in Delhi funded by the MSJE, GOI and Commissioned by Department of Women and Child development, Delhi Govt of Delhi in 2015-16
3) Ten city Survey on Substance Use among School and College Students funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), GOI in 2019-20
4) Extent of Mental Health issues & Addictive Behavior among Adolescents seeking help in Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics in Delhi funded by the Adolescent Health Division, Directorate of Family Welfare, Govt of NCT of Delhi in 2019-20
5) Screening and Intervention for Drug/Substance Use among Secondary School going Children funded by UEE Mission, Education Department Delhi in year 2020-21
• Been co-investigator for the following studies funded by WHO (India)–
1) Assessment of drug use in out of School Adolescents in 2008
2) Development of intervention for drug use in out of school adolescents in 2008-09
3) Coordination & convergence of Delhi District Health Services programmes & drug use intervention for the out of school children in 2010-11
• Have been a guide and co-guide for several MD, DM Addiction, PhD thesis on Adolescent Substance Use including those on clinical, biochemical, family based, neuroimaging and intervention related aspects

• Have more than 100 publications including journal articles, abstracts, chapters in books, manuals/books

Abhishek Ghosh

Associate Professor of Addiction Psychiatry & Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh

Experience: Clinical and Research

Areas of Interest: Addiction Psychiatry, Public Health

Research / Achievements/Specific Contributions: Editorial Board Member for the American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Psychiatry (Addictive Disorders)

Fellow of the International Society of Addiction Medicine

Nishant Goyal

Name: Dr. Nishant Goyal
MD, DPM
Designation: Professor of Psychiatry
In Charge, Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, fMRI Centre and Centre for Cognitive
Neurosciences

Incharge, Academics
Affiliation: Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India

Programme Coordinator, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support during Pandemic for CIP, Ranchi

Programme Coordinator, CIP Digital Academy
Joint Secretary and Founder Member, Neuromodulation Society (India)
Editor, Eastern Journal of Psychiatry
Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Areas of Interest/Specialization: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation,
Public Mental Health

Number of Publications: 90+
Awards & Fellowships: 20+

Koushik Sinha Deb

Area of Work:

Consultation Liaison Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine – Setting up & Managing services, Development of course & research.

Digital Psychiatry – Establishing digital psychiatric services at AIIMS and developing mHealth platform. Institute wide Digital Research Initiative through REDCap server establishment.

COVID-19 Services @ Psychiatry, AIIMS:

Generation of resource materials and advocacy against stigma – AIIMS, Ministry of Health

Development of the AIIMS COVID-19 Web portal – Research and resource compilation

Tele-Psychiatry Services for Psychiatry – Setting up and quality monitoring of services

Awards & Fellowships:

2019 Balint Award – 26th National conference of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry, AIIMS Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

2013 – Dr. GC Boral Award at the 20^th National conference of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry, Chandigarh.

Assistant Secretary General – Indian Association for Social Psychiatry: 2016-2020; EC Member – Indian Association for Social Psychiatry: 2021-2022

Chairperson – Website Committee – Indian Psychiatric Society: 2019-2021

Member – National Academy of Medical Sciences – 2019

Member of Committee for inspection of Mental Health Institutions in Delhi, by Delhi State Legal Service Authority and Central Mental Health Authority, Gov of India 2018.

Member – Technical Expert Committee of OST for accreditation of De-addiction centers in India by NABH – NACO (DAC), MoHFW, Govt. of India

Personal Statement:

I, Dr. Koushik Sinha Deb, am currently working as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at AIIMS, New Delhi. I completed my MBBS from Medical College Kolkata in 2001 and my residency (MD) and senior residency at AIIMS in 2012. I have been working as a faculty at AIIMS for the past 7 years.

All through my career, I have been a keen researcher with an interest in technology and its application. I have worked as a WHO consultant for Health systems assessment and currently I am a consultant on the technological requirement and solutions for multiple national & international projects including national registries. I am the nodal person in my institute for the data management platform REDCap. My career aspiration focusses on developing technology-enabled solutions for mental health prevention, detection, and management; on developing e-services in mental health training and teaching; and in expanding scope and integrating mental health in all other health situations through liaison psychiatry.

Pawan Kumar Gupta

Speaker Name: Pawan Kumar Gupta
Designation: Additional Professor
Affiliation/ Institute: Department of Psychiatry, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, (UP)
Awards/Honors: M. MURUGAN POSTER AWARD, ANCIPS 2020, DR. JC MARFATIA AWARD for Best paper IACAM 2011
Interests: Child and adolescent Psychiatry

Satya Raj

Dr.Satya Raj, Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.

Qualifications are as below –

Diploma in Psychological Medicine – DPM
MD (Psychiatry)
Diplomate of the National Board – DNB
FRANZCP – Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

I completed my Training in Psychiatry, in 2008, at the Christian Medical College and since then I have been a Faculty in the Child and adolescent Psychiatry unit, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.

I completed my FRANZCP – Fellowship from the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrist in Oct 2016

Experience in Australia
I was working as a Staff specialist in the Child and youth mental health service, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Consultant in Infant Mental Health,
Consultant – Evolve – working with children with trauma backgrounds.
Trained in Circle of security

Areas of interest

Infant mental health

Childhood trauma

Attachment in children

School Mental Health.

Neurodevelopmental disorders in children

Publications and research
I have publications in various national and International journals, and currently am working on 2 projects in mood disorders in children, 3 papers on the Psychological impact of COVID 19 in children and adolescents.

Conferences and workshops
I have attended various national and International conferences and have presented papers in these forums as well. I have conducted workshops for Paediatricians, General practitioners, school teachers, psychologist and social workers – on various topics in Child and adolescent mental health. I worked with ED LINQ in Australia, with a focus on School Mental Health.

Recently started “Infant mother nurture clinic” in CMC, the first of its kind in India.

YC Janardhan Reddy

Dr Reddy is a Professor of Psychiatry and Head, Department of Psychiatry and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. Dr. Reddy has special interest in studying the long-term course and outcome of OCD and bipolar disorders and in the management of treatment resistant OCD patients. He is involved in studies of phenomenology, comorbidty, family-genetics, treatment resistance, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging in OCD. He has published extensively in international and national peer reviewed journals on OCD and bipolar disorders. He is also the reviewer for many national and international journals in psychiatry. He was awarded the Visiting commonwealth research fellow at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK in the years 1999 and 2000. He has also been awarded the prestigious Sir C.V. Raman State Award for the Young Scientists for the year 2011 by the Government of Karnataka. Dr. Reddy has funded projects on OCD from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) of the Government of India and a Ro1 grant from NIMH, USA which aims to study the reproducible biosigantures of OCD. He is also a member of the ENIGMA-OCD Working Group. Dr. Reddy is one of the principal investigators of an ambitious project funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, titled “Accelerator program for discovery in brain disorders using stem cells (ADBS)” He is a member of the WHO Working Group on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders for revision of ICD-10. Dr. Reddy is the lead author of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) Clinical Practice Guidelines on OCD and on CBT in anxiety disorders and OCD and related disorders.

Dr Preeti Kandasamy

Qualification:

DM (2011-2014)- NIMHANS, Bangalore

PDF (2008-2009)- NIMHANS, Bangalore

MD (2004-2007)- Madurai Medical College, Tamil Nadu

MBBS (1996-2002)- Madras Medical College, Tamil Nadu

Work experience:

Served at Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS as non-PG and PG senior resident for 6 years from 2007-2014. She belongs to the first batch of PDF and DM in child and adolescent psychiatry at NIMHANS.

Worked at Department of Psychiatry, JIPMER as faculty for 6 year from 2014-2020. She was the course coordinator for PDF in child and adolescent psychiatry initiated at JIPMER in 2017.

Currently serving as consultant at Neuro Foundation, Salem, Tamil Nadu (2020-todate).

Area of Interest: Early intervention for Neurodevelopmental disorders, Childhood Anxiety Disorders.

Project and publications related to the topic (PBD):

Principal investigator for the project titled “Role of Genomic Biomarkers in predicting prophylactic response to lithium in Paediatric-onset Bipolar Disorder” funded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (ECR/2016/001849).

Selvarajan S, Manohar H, Das S, Sakkarabani P, Kandasamy P. Lithium prophylaxis in early-onset Bipolar disorder: a descriptive study. Asian J Psychiatr. 2019:44, 172-4.

Kandasamy P, Jairam R, Srinath S. Affective disorders in children and adolescents: current status and controversies. In Child and Adolescent Psychiatry- Asian perspectives. Eds. Malhotra S, Paramala S. Springer. 2016:1;51-62.

Dr Shivangi Mehta

Shivangi is a Child and Adolescent psychiatrist currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh.
Having a close association with a multidisciplinary team , she is involved with Government Rehabilitation Institute for Intellectual Disabilities and Ashreya- a residential home for persons with ID ; where she coordinates research and training besides clinical psychiatry services. The umbrella of the services also shadows Samarth , Juvenile Justice Home and Nariniketan .
Besides working with Child and Adolescent mental health, specifically -developmental disabilities, she is actively involved in the areas of child sexual abuse, training teachers in life skills education and qualitative research as well.
She has relevant research work, publications, paper presentations, symposia, workshops and training programs with a special interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the national and international level.

Dr. Soumya Tandon

Qualifications:

MBBS: Kasturba Medical College,

Manipal, Karnataka (2010)

MD Psychiatry: PGIMER, Chandigarh (2014)

DM Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: PGIMER, Chandigarh (2017)

Research

D. Thesis: “Relationship between Bipolar Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperkinetic Disorder: An Exploratory Study”.
M Thesis: “Study of Functional Brain Abnormalities in Childhood Onset Schizophrenia using PET Scan and Assessment of Executive Functions”.

Publications:

Jhanda S, Singla N, Grover Methylphenidate-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A case report and review of literature. J Pediatr Neuroscince. 2016; 11:316- 18.
Chauhan N, Sen MS, Jhanda S, Grover S. Psychiatric manifestations of congenital rubella syndrome: A case report and review of literature. J Pediatr Neuroscience. 2016; 11:137-39.
Grover S, Sarkar S, Jhanda S, Chawla Y. Psychosis in an adolescent with Wilson’s disease: A case report and review of the literature. Indian J Psychiatry. 2014; 56:395-98.
Padhy S, Jhanda S, Malhotra S. Dissociative Disorder in Children and Adolescents. In: Malhotra S, Santosh P. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Asian Perspectives. Springer India, 2016; 19-32.
Malhotra S, Jhanda S. Temperament: Clinical relevance. In: Malhotra S, Santosh

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Asian Perspectives. Springer India, 2016; 245- 68.

Sahoo S, Jhanda S, Padhy SK. Hyper IgE syndrome associated with dissociative disorder: A case report. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2015;57 Suppl 1, S 153-54
Shah R, Sharma A, Grover S, Chauhan N, Jhanda S. Parenting a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Qualitative study from a developing nation, India. European Psychiatry 2017; 41 Suppl:
Grover S, Jhanda S. Lead and it’s association with mental illness. Annals of Indian Psychiatry 2017;1: 62-64.
Jhanda S, Malhotra S, Grover Relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperkinetic Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: A study from India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2018;35:101-108.
Kohli A, Jhanda S, Padhy SK. The utility of modified Sentence Completion Test for Children and Adolescents. Industrial Psychiatry Journal 2018; 27:231-234.
Shah R, Sharma A, Chauhan N, Jhanda S, Grover S. Understanding parental causal explanations and process of help seeking in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder: Perspectives from a developing nation”. Asian Journal of Psychiatry

2019;41:54-59.

Tandon S. Diagnosing and dealing with childhood depression: A review. Current Medicine Research and Practice 2019; 9: 25-28.

Conferences: Active participation in several national and international conferences

Regularly been a part of workshops and panel discussion

Clinical experience in developmental disorders at NIMH (National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped), Secunderabad, India

Clinical experience in General Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology at Department of Paediatrics, PGIMER Chandigarh

Darpan Kaur

Dr Darpan Kaur is currently working as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Mahatma Gandhi Missions Medical College and Hospital, Navi Mumbai. She is additionally In Charge of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry, MGMMC, Navi Mumbai. She is Consulting Psychiatrist at Satguru Mind Care, Mumbai. She is also visiting Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai.

She received her post graduation training in Psychiatry from the prestigious Christian Medical College, (CMC), Vellore. Subsequently, she worked as a Consultant and Research Officer at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, (CMC), Vellore. She has received the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) Travel Fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore.

She has successfully completed online course on Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy offered by the European Psychiatric Association. She has also participated and completed online course and live training in Cue-centred Therapy from Stanford Medicine.

She has relevant research work, publications, paper presentations, symposia, workshops and training programs with a special interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the national and international level.

She has been awarded with AS Johnson Gold Medal Essay Prize in Schizophrenia (CMC Vellore), Fellowship of Dr Ramachandra N Moorthy Foundation for Mental Health and Neurological Sciences at NIMHANS, Luke Clack Young Scientist Award by the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, (IACAM), Prof NN Wig Memorial Essay Prize (GCBP) and Mental Health Leadership Award.

She has been awarded the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Young Psychiatrist Fellowship, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Fellowship Award, The Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN) Fellowship Award, World Federation for Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Young Investigator Award and Early Career Psychiatrist Award by the Congress Committee, Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt. She was selected for the Adopt a Delegate Program at the World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). She has also received the RCPsych South Asian Division Poster Bursary Prize from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.

She is currently Assistant Editor of the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Assistant Editor of the Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry and Review Editor for Psychological Therapies, Frontiers in Psychiatry. She is the Chairperson of the Digital Psychiatry Subcommittee of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Western Zonal Branch. She is the Cochairperson of the Technology and Psychiatry Specialty Section of the Indian Psychiatric Society, (IPS). She is the Cochairperson of the Web and Social Media Committee of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry, (IAPP).

She is member of national organisations such as Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (IAPP), Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (IACAM) and Indian Association of Biological Psychiatry (IABP). She is also a member of international organisations such as World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP) and Global Mental Heath (GMH) Think Tank.

Ms. Manisha Bhattacharya

RCI registered Clinical Psychologist; M.Phil from University of Calcutta.
Area of interest: working with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families.
Specialized PEERS training from UCLA on Social Skill Development for teenagers and young adults with ASD; specialized training on Social Role Valorization (SRV) from Keystone Institute, USA
Working with young kids for their early intervention and with teenagers and adults with ASD for preserving their psychological wellbeing.
Strong supporter of neuro-diversity and works for inclusion.
Certified Narrative Practitioner who wants to explore the alternative way of seeing this condition and wants to find out the competencies these people have over the difficulties they are facing.

Dr. Prerna Khar

M.B.B.S and M.D Psychiatry- BJ Govt Medical College, Pune
Pursuing Fellowship in Child & Adolescent Mental health-

T.N.M.C & B.Y.L Nair Ch Hospital, Mumbai

Awards –Howard Cooper Travelling Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2021- RANZP
Areas of Interest:

Child and Adolescent mental health
Women’s mental health
Forensic Psychiatry

Dr. Swati B. Shelke

M.B.B.S ( Seth GSMC & KEMH, Mumbai)
M.D. Psychiatry

(T.N.M.C & B.Y.L Nair Ch Hospital, Mumbai)

Fellowship in Child & Adolescent mental health

(T.N.M.C & B.Y.L Nair Ch Hospital, Mumbai)

Areas of Interest:

Child and Adolescent mental health
Neuropsychiatry

Dr. Rajendra K M

DPM, MD (Psychiatry)
DM (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS
Area of Work or Interest:
Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Self –harm
• Children in difficult circumstances
• Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Forensic Child Mental Health

Dr. Eesha Sharma

MD (Psychiatry), NIMHANS; Post-doctoral fellowship (Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders).
Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS
Pursuing a PhD on Environmental Determinants of Adolescent Temperament.
Coordinated an international Multi-centric developmental cohort study- CVEDA; key role in drafting IPS Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Assessment of children and adolescents.
Areas of interest: Developmental psychopathology, effects of early childhood adversity on children’s development and mental health, and childhood OCD.
International & national publications-Adult & Childhood OCD, childhood adversity, intervention models in child psychiatry

Prabhat Sitholey

Shoba Srinath

PJ Santosh

Jay Ranjan Ram

Suresh Bada Math

Uma Hirisave

Dr. Uma Hirisave is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology. Her areas of Interest are development of psychological tests, preventive and promotive interventions, play, group and narrative therapies, specific learning disability and school mental health. She has organized several workshops in national and international conferences. She has published over 90 papers in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and a book on psychological assessment which is well received by post-graduates in the field and also manuals for child psycho-social development. The fourth edition of the book was recently published. She has completed many projects as Investigator/co-investigator. She has functioned as an expert advisor in several regional and national committees. She has guided 12 students for PhD and several students for M.Phil dissertations in the area of child and adolescent mental health. She was awarded Asha Nigam award for her contribution to the field of clinical psychology by IACP. Her hobbies include listening to music, gardening and reading.

Nishant Goyal

Dr. Nishant Goyal is heading the Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Central Institute of Psychiatry and has initiated regular neurodevelopmental clinic at CIP since last 05 years. He is also the in-charge of academics and examination section of the Institute. He is designated as an External Expert and Advisor by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), New Delhi under Ministry of Women and Child Development and is involved in policy and programme making and implementation and conducting workshops in the Eastern region on various subject matters under the purview of NCPCR.

He is also heading the Centre for Cognitive Neurosciences and Neuropsychiatry Services including weekly epilepsy clinic at Central Institute of Psychiatry and has developed first non-invasive Brain Stimulation Lab in the entire eastern region of the Country with state of art facilities including Robotised, 3-D Neuronavigated TMS/rTMS, HD-tDCS, tDCS, tACS, tES and hybrid stimulation facilities at Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP). Neuroscience research using high resolution EEG and ERP systems complemented with video EEG, fNIRS and PSG facilities are a prominent feature. The lab is involved in clinical and experimental research in the field of mental health and neurosciences.

He has published more than 70 papers in reputed international and national journals (Scopus indexed). He has published mainly in the areas of Brain Stimulation, high resolution EEG including cortical source localization and EEG connectivity and clinical child and adolescent psychiatry. He has authored/co-authored 06 book chapters particularly in the areas of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Services development and history.

He has mentored/guided more than 55 post graduate research mostly in the field of Brain Stimulation and Cognitive Neurosciences. Currently he is guiding 10 post graduate thesis/dissertations in mental health and neurosciences including PhD candidates particularly in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Satish Girimaji

Vivek Benegal

Debasish Basu

Dr. Debasish Basu is Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, where he is involved in psychiatric service, postgraduate psychiatric teaching, research and administration. His area of work includes general adult psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and dual diagnosis, and he is also currently a core faculty for the DM Child and Adolescent Psychiatry course in the Department.

Awards and Recognition :

Dr. Basu has been awarded with several honours, distinctions, and awards, both at national and international levels. At the national level, he has received a total of 26 awards. At the international level, he was awarded the prestigious NIDA-INVEST Fellowship in USA, for one year (2002-2003), where he conducted research in the area of psychiatric genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. He was also awarded the NHS International Fellowship by the National Health Service, UK, under its NHS International Fellowship Programme, to work as a Consultant Psychiatrist.

Professional Affiliations, Editorship, Publications :

Dr. Basu is Fellow/Member of several national and international professional societies, and serves as a peer reviewer in many medical journals published both from India and abroad. He has served in editorial capacity in several scholarly journals. He is currently the Founding Editor of World Social Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Association of Social Psychiatry. He has also served on several national and international forums related to addiction psychiatry. He is a member of the Addiction Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Basu has many funded and non-funded research work, and has more than 350 scientific publications to his credit, including books, several book chapters, and articles and abstracts published in national and international journals. He has presented his research or given scientific talks at more than 200 academic meets in India and abroad.

MV Ashok

Professor of Psychiatry, St.John’s Medical College Hospital(SJMCH), Bangalore and Head, CARE-ADD

Completed MD from NIMHANS and was a Senior Resident till 1993. Was a Visiting Registrar, Liverpool, UK 1993-1994. Has worked and developed child mental health services at SJMCH from 1994 onwards. He worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist, Sheffield Care Trust, UK and Senior Clinical Lecturer, Academic Department of Psychiatry, University of Sheffield – 2003-2005.

Working within a Multidisciplinary Team, he has contributed to the St. John’s Centre for Children with Special Needs, called Unit of Hope, within SJMCH, where he coordinates Research and Training.

In August 2019, launched CARE-ADD: Centre for Advanced Research and Excellence in Autism and Developmental Disorders, within SJMCH. His team at CAREADD focus on many aspects of Autism and Developmental Disorders, including Early Intervention models, genetics, electrophysiology and play behaviours, besides public health models for ASD.

He started a one year Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SJMCH under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in 2020.

He has developed a scale to screen for ASD in 9-18 months old. Other studies include development of an instrument to measure Adolescent Depression and exploring the role of Iron in ADHD. Is currently developing tools for Anxiety and Panic disorders in Kannada as part of an ICMR Task Force study (PANIQ). He has also published in the area of Schizophrenia, Alcoholism and UG/PG training and is part of an ICMR multicentric study exploring services for metabolic syndrome in Schizophrenia.

He now chairs the IEC (Behavioural Sciences) at NIMHANS, Bangalore. He is a Hub Director for the NIH-FIC Grant PRIIIA aimed at research training for young professionals in Cognition. As Chairperson, Research Capacity Building Committee, IPS-SZ, he conducts online weekly research training program for Psychiatrists.

Vivek Agarwal

Nidhi Chauhan

Nitin Gupta

Chhitij Srivastava

Henal Shah

Pratap Sharan

Devashish Konar

Kishor Gujar

He is Consultant Adult & Child Psychiatrist, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital & Galaxy Care Hospital, Pune

Former Deputy Medical Superintendent, HOD,Psychiatry Dept & in charge, Child Guidance Centre, YCM Hospital, Pune

He is M.D. & done Course in CAP (NIMHANS, Bangalore) & Yoga (Pune University)

He is currently President, Indian Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (IACAM) & past President , IPS – Western Zonal Branch 2014-15. He was Central Council member, IPS 2008-2020, He is Life fellow of IPS, IACAM, IASP,IAIP & Member of AACAP.

He was Organizing Secretary, 66th ANCIPS-2014 & 13th IACAMCON – 2015 & he organized various workshops for Parents & Teachers regarding Child Mental Health issues.

He established Psychiatry Department with OPD services at YCM Hospital in 1993 which was subsequently expanded with full fledge infrastructure (including clinical psychologist & PSW) culminated in training P.G. for DPM course affiliated with Collage of Physician & Surgeon, Bombay. In 2004 he established Child Guidance Centre with Play therapy unit, catering CAMH services to 15 lac populations & 400 schools.

In capacity of Deputy Medical Superintendent (2015-16) he looked after general administration of hospital 750 beds capacity & was instrumental in starting new wards, expansion of existing facilities & starting ultramodern Blood Bank.

He worked as Co-ordinator for project of establishing P. G. Institute at YCM Hospital, as joint venture of PCMC & Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) during 2012-2013.

His work included preparing basic data, liaison with state government & MUHS; procuring Consent of Affiliation certificate & Essentiality certificate; prepared Recruitment Rule for creating 118 teaching posts requiring for PG Medical Institute & perused it to get approval from State Government.

He was instrumental in starting diploma courses in 12 medical specialties at YCM Hospital affiliated to Collage of Surgeons & Physician, Bombay in year 1999.

He was Visiting Psychiatrist, SNEHALAYA NGO Working for Rehabilitation of Children of Commercial Sex Worker Ahmednagar & Mother Teresa Home for destitute at Thatwade, Chinchwad, Pune (Weekly visit)

He presented various papers, symposium, workshops in zonal, National & International conferences on child mental health issues. His publication are :

1. School mental health programme in Maharashtra – Today and way ahead, Annals of Indian Psychiatry, (Year : 2017 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 1 | Page : 4-7),

2. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sleep Disorders , IJP, January

3. SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH – REACHING THE MASSES, Chapter in book Different Strokes – An IPS PublicationI,Indian Psychiatric Society, First Edition: January, 2015

Savita Malhotra

Former Dean and Professor of Psychiatry; and Head Department of Psychiatry and Deaddiction and Treatment Centre at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh.

She is MD, PhD, Hon Fellow American College of Psychiatrists, Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences. She had WHO and British Council Fellowships for training in child and adolescent psychiatry in the USA and UK. She headed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services in the PGIMER Chandigarh for over 35 yrs. She has been in academic psychiatry for about 45 yrs in the PGIMER Chandigarh. She has been an author and a speaker at many national and international conferences, seminars, meetings; published several books, book chapters and research papers. She has served on many technical advisory committees of Government of India Ministry of Health and FW, ICMR, WHO. She has held offices in many national and international professional societies.

She founded and has been the force behind the formation of the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in 1991 and is currently its Life President. She has been Past President of the Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; Assistant Secretary General of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; Board Member of Child Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, Executive Committee Member of the Education Sub-Committee of the World Psychiatric Association.

She has been keenly involved in developing systems and models for enhancing resources for service and training in child psychiatry in India providing impetus for development of child psychiatry as an academic discipline. She has pioneered research in telepsychiatry in the country and developed a model for delivering mental health care in remote unserved areas through non specialists. She has received several awards from national and international bodies and professional societies. Among others, she has received International Award in recognition of exemplary service and global leadership through service, teaching, research and advocacy in child psychiatry in Asia by the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions.

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Certificate Course in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for General Psychiatrists (Batch 1)

Certificate Course in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for General Psychiatrists (Batch 2)

Certificate Course in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for General Psychiatrists (Batch 3)

Certificate Course in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for General Psychiatrists -Batch [IV]

Certificate Course in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for General Psychiatrists -Batch [V]

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Dr RP Beniwal

He is a Professor & Consultant at the Department of Psychiatry & Drug De-addiction, Centre of Excellence in Mental Health, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Science & Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.

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