POSITIONS HELD

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POSITIONS HELD

1.     Vice-President, Indian Society for the Study of Pain 1985-87.

2.     Assistant Editor, Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 1985-1988.

3.     Member Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Pain, 1989- 2002. 

4.     Associate Editor, Progress in Palliative Care  (U.K). 1994-2003

5.     National Consultant, United Nations International Drug Control Programme [UNDCP], 1994.

6.     Vice President, Indian Association of Palliative Care,1994 – 1997.

7.     Honorary Warden, NIMHANS Hostels, 2001 to 2003

8.     Member, Equivalence Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, 2004-08

9.     Member, Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 2003 –

10.  Member, Editorial Board, Psycho Oncology 2002 – 2016

11.  Member Ethics Committee, NIMHANS, 2005 – 2006

12.  Member, Board of Directors, Int’l Psycho Oncology Society, 2006-11

13.  Hindi Officer, NIMHANS, 2008 to 2014.

14.  Head, Department of Psychiatry, 2009-2011.

15.  Member, WHO’s Working Group on the Classification of Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders 2010-2012.

16.  Member of the International Psychiatry Editorial Board, 2011-

17.  Member, Ethics sub Committee for Dissertations in Behavioural Sciences

18.  Chairman, Awards Committee, Indian Psychiatric Society, 2012 – 2013

19.  Member Secretary, Dr Ramachandra N Moorthy Foundation for Mental Health & Neurosciences, NIMHANS, Bangalore, 2011 to date

20.  Associate Editor, British Journal of Psychiatry- International, 2014 to date

21.  Member Secretary, Rehabilitation Committee, NIMHANS Bangalore 2011-2016

22.  Member, University Grants Commission Expert Committee, for deemed university status for Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University Lucknow, July to December 2014.

23.  Editor in Chief, Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation & Mental Health, Springer Publications, 2014 to date.

24.  Head, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, 2011- 2015.

25.  Dean, Behavioural Sciences Jan 2016 to Jan 2019

 

26.  Head, Department of Mental Health Education, Dec 2015 to date