Awards, Publications & Fellowships

Awards

• GOLD MEDAL – Best outgoing psychiatry resident, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal (2004)
• DR AMIT BOHRA MEMORIAL AWARD – Best paper in junior psychiatrist category, Indian Association of Private Psychiatrists, Varanasi (2004)
• DR K B DHRUV KUMAR AWARD – Best psychotherapy work, KANCIPS, Bijapur (2004)
• Distinction Holder – In Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine, Microbiology, and Community Medicine
• First Class – In Biochemistry, Medicine, Surgery, and OBG
• Elected Board Member – Interns Association, Kasturba Medical College

Fellowships

• World Psychiatric Association (WPA) – Young Psychiatrists' Fellowship Program, invited to World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey (2006)
• Japanese Society of Psychiatrists & Neurologists – Invited International Speaker at 103rd Annual Conference, Kohchi, Japan (2007)
• Royal College of Psychiatrists, London – Invited Speaker at Annual Conference (2008) for Young Psychiatrists’ Symposium
• Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes – Leadership Course by Dr. Norman Sartorius, Singapore (2009)

Publications

• International Psychiatry (2010) – “Alcohol Dependence Syndrome in Women – An Indian Perspective”
• German Journal of Psychiatry – “Pathological Milk Drinking”; “Self-Induced Photosensitive Epilepsy”
• Indian Journal of Psychiatry (2008) – “Disability and QOL in Euthymic Bipolar and Depressive Disorders”
• Multiple ANCIPS Presentations – On addiction, geriatric psychiatry, suicide, OCD, lithium toxicity, etc. (2002–2007)
• Workshop – “Globalization and the Evolving Indian Adolescent,” IACAP Biennial Conference, Mumbai (2007)
• CME Talk – “Adolescence – Upcoming Problems,” Deccan Association of Paediatrics, Karad (2007)
• Original Research – “Gender Differences in Suicide Attempts,” presented in Japan and India