Developments in Psychiatry in India (PDF)

Savita Malhotra is Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services at the Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Educational and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. She is a recipient of the D.L.N. Murthy Rao Oration Award, Bhagwat Award, PPA 1 Award, Bombay Psychiatric Society Silver Jubilee Year Award of the Indian Psychiatric Society; Tilak Venkoba Rao Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research; and WHO Fellowship in Child Mental Health. She has also received the Dr K.L. Wig Oration Award of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a Life Fellow of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry and of the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Professor Malhotra has been actively involved with several national and international societies and organisations: Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (Past President); Indian Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (Life President); International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (Assistant Secretary General and Adjunct Secretary); Member and Consultant Education Committee of the World Psychiatric Association and Temporary Advisor, World Health Organisation, in the past. She is President Elect of the Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, and Board Member of the Child Psychiatry Section of WPA. She has published over 200 research papers and book chapters and authored/edited several books.

Subho Chakrabarti is Professor of Psychiatry at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Educational and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. He has clinical, teaching and research experience of over 22 years. He has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, U.K., Fellow of the International Society for Affective Disorders, Fellow of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Fellow of the Indian Association of Social Psychiatry and Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India.