Biography

MBBS, MD (Psychiatry), MAMS, Dip Yoga, Cert Yoga (BHU), PhD, LLB, FAMS, Fellow-WASP, Cert Yoga (WPA-IPS).
EXPERIENCE:
India: > 40 years; Foreign: Malaysia (University Malaya); Nepal (BPKIMS).
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Emeritus Professor, National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) (INDIA); Director at Large, World Federation for Mental Health; Member, Forensic Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association; Legal Director, Professional Protection Scheme, Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS); Advisor, Task Force Patients’ Rights, IPS.
FORMER POSITIONS:
Professor & Head: Department of Psychiatry, IMS, BHU, and HIMS, Varanasi, India.
President: Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (IASP), IPS, SAARC Psychiatric Federation, Indian Association for Geriatric Mental Health (IAGMH), Indian Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (IACAMH), IMA-BHU, and IPS-Central Zone (CZ).
Vice-President: Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations.
Chair person: Continuing Medical Education: IPS-CZ, IAGMH, IASP; Awards Committee, IACAMH; Committee Women Mental Health, and Forensic Psychiatry, IPS; Patients’ Rights, IPS;
Round table conference on “Promotion of Women’s Mental Health”, Mauritius (2014), Ministry of Health and Quality of Life (MOH & QOL), Mauritius and Mauritius Psychiatric Association (MPA).
AWARDS:
Special Prize-Khan Competition, PPA Award-II, IPS; BB Sethi Oration, IPS; BPSSJ Award, IPS; Tara Naidu Award, IPS-CZ; Best paper Award, IPS-CZ; First Prize for Paper presentation, IASP; Lifetime achievement award, Indo-Global Health Care Summit & Expo; Shiv Gautam Oration, IAGMH; Dr Amit Bohra Oration Award, Indian Association for Private Psychiatry (IAPP); Presidents Appreciation award, IPS.
GUEST OF HONOUR:
Chief Guest, Mental Retardation Awareness Workshop (2008), Nai Subah, India; IAPP-UP-UK (2012), Gorakhpur, India; The Foundation Day Function (2013), KGMU, India; Chief Guest of 1st
Mauritius Conference on Women’s Health (2014) MOH & QOL, Mauritius and MPA.
FELLOWSHIPS:
Biological Psychiatry-Psycho-pharmacology, WHO-ICMR; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, British Council;
PROJECTS: 6
Research: 4; Clinical: 1; Educational Project: 1
RESEARCH:
Supervisor of Thesis: MD/MS 32; PhD 8.
Publications: Research Papers >130: Books 4; Chapters in books: 21
EDITOR:
Indian Journal of Behavioural Sciences, JIACAM.
MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED BODIES:
>20, Including: Member: International Brain Research Organisation, NAMS (India).
Fellow: NAMS (India), WASP.
SPECIALIZATION:
Women mental health, Forensic Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, Geriatric mental health.