FIELD OF EXPERTISE:

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• Adult psychiatry, deaddiction

• Community psychiatry

• Brain stimulation and

• Psychotherapy

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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

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• Dr.R.N Moorthy fellow: One of the 16 selected psychiatrists from SAARC countries for 8th Lead ship & Professional Skills course for ECPS, 2020, chaired Prof N. Sartorius, organized by Dr. Ramachandra N Moorthy Foundation for Mental Health and Neurological Sciences, NIMHANS.

• Short Term Student Research Fellowship 2010 and 2011, Indian Council of Medical

• Research (ICMR)

• Best paper award at Research Day celebrations of 2018 at CMC-Vellore.

• ITOP MUST ENRICH Research Grant 2021 by MINDS Trust, Mysore, and Infosys

• Completed training course in research fundamentals, Grant ID #D43TW009114 National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.

• Director & Co-founder, Lexicon medical magazine since 8.5 years

• Academic Coordinator for Training Initiative for Psychiatry Postgraduates

• Number of publications (as of July 2021): 13

• Number of chapters: 4

• Speaker and written several articles for magazines, newspapers and, blogs.