Experience
Administrative Experiences
Departmental Secretary (2005 to 2007)
Assistant Warden of the Hostel (2012 to 2014)
Member of the Anti-Ragging Committee (2013 to 2014)
Member of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Committee at Workplace (2014 to 2017)
Coordinator of Behavioural Sciences Module for PhD students (2014 to 2017)
Specialist in-charge for Pavilion-1 (2014 to 2018)
In-charge Head of Community Psychiatry (2017 to 2020)
In-charge Head of Adult Psychiatry Unit-5 (2019 to till date)
Head of Telemedicine Centre (2006 to till date)
In-charge of Legal Aid Clinic at NIMHANS (2011 to till date)
Head of Forensic Psychiatry Unit (2019 to till date)
Chairperson of Academic Committee, Department of Psychiatry (2021 to till date)
Head of NIMHANS Digital Academy (2022 to till date)
The Chairman of the Task Force for Mental Health and Wellbeing of Medical Students 2024. This task force was formed by the National Medical Commission, New Delhi
Invited medico-legal expert for three years (2021 to 2023) to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board, National Medical Commission, New Delhi. I have contributed to the drafting of EMRB regulations, Developing training modules for medico-legal experts, Live Surgery guidelines, RMP involved in unethical advertisement, Good Practice case publications, and Prevention of Suicide in MBBS students.
Member Secretary of the Technical Advisory Sub-committee for Telemental Health Programme (Telemanas) IT Architecture Domain, established by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi 2022
Member of ‘the Committee of Experts' for Monon: Assam Cares program constituted by the Health and Family Welfare, Government of Assam 2020
Member of ‘the Committee of Experts' constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi dated 23rd May, 2017 for framing Rules and Regulations under the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. Attended several meetings of the committee of experts for framing rules and regulations under the Mental Health Care Act 2017 at Delhi.
Member of the Expert committee to advice Karnataka State Board of Auqaf, Government for Karnataka to establish a Rehabilitation Center for Mentally ill patients at Hazrath Fakhi Shah Dargah Murugamalla, Chintamani taluk. Chikkaballapur district. 5th August, 2017 at Fakhi Shah Dargah, Murugamalla
Member of the of the task force to develop operational guidelines for Mental Health Care at PHC formed by MoHFW, Government of India and attended a meeting of the task force to develop operational guidelines for Mental Health Care at PHC, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi on 30.01.2018
National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi., data analysis on mental health status report to be submitted to the Supreme Court. [Report -1]., [Report-2] 2008-09
Status report on ‘Women with mental illness’ a research project sponsored by National Commission of women, New Delhi 2015-16
Member of the State Committee for Drafting Minimum Standard for Mental Health Establishment for the New Raipur, Chattisgarh State 2019-18.
A member of the committee of Experts constituted by the Government of India, Ministry of Education, Department of School Education and Literacy to develop a training module for teachers in early detection of mental stress/illness amongst school children order dated 11 Nov 2021 (F.No.10-12/2020-Sch.4)
A member of the Standing Committee of Symbiosis Centre for Emotional Wellbeing (SCEW), Symbiosis International University (SIU), Pune 14 March 2022 to 2024
President of Telemedicine Society of India, Karnataka State Branch 2022-24
Invited Member for the Forensic Psychiatry Section of the Karnataka State Branch of the Indian Psychiatric Society from 2015 to 2019
Co-chair for the Committee for Research and Education Foundation and Training of the Indian Psychiatric Society for the year 2017-18
Co-chair for the Legal Cell of the Indian Psychiatric Society for the year 2019-20
Legal Cell Member of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry for the year 2019-20
Professional Body invited Member for the Committee
Expert Consultant/Committee member for the Government and Universities
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences
Annals of Indian Psychiatry
Ombudsman/Editorial Board Member for the following Journals
Teaching students of the Distance Education Program titled Post-Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
Training Judges in Karnataka Judicial Academy, Bangalore
State Human Rights Commission, Bangalore, Karnataka
Teaching students of the Distance Education Program titled Post-Graduate Diploma in Medical Law, Ethics & Policy, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
Teaching students of the Distance Education Program titled Post-Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Hospital Administration, National Law School Aurangabad.
