Professional Experience:

• Currently Director at INDLAS Hospital, Vijayawada, which is a 50 bedded Psychiatry Hospital
• Director of ICGC, chain of child guidance clinics in Vijayawada, Vizag and Mumbai
• Director of Indlas Shantivan, a 120 bedded Rehabilitation and deaddiction center in Vijayawada

Awards and Honours:

• Received the Eminent DNB Teacher’s award from ANBAI in February 2019 at Hyderabad
• Received the 12 th Teacher’s Young Achievers Club recognition award in the year 2013
• Elected as the South Zone representative to National Council of Indian Psychiatric Society 2021-24
• Elected as the AP state representative to South Zone Council of Indian Psychiatric Society 2019-21
• President Elect Indian Psychiatric Society- AP State Chapter , 2016-2017
• Instrumental in starting the DNB course in Psychiatry, affiliated to the National Board of Examinations and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Child Psychiatry, affiliated to NTR health University, Andhra Pradesh
• Areas of interest: Schizophrenia , De Addiction, Child Psychiatry

Other Achievements :

• Gave a Ted talk in 2017 on topic “At work, less is more”
• Principal Investigator in many Phase II and Phase III Research trials in Psychiatry, dealing with Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorders, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
• Chairman, Task Force on Young Psychiatrists' Forum of Indian Psychiatric Society, for the year 2012-2014
• Associate Editor Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine and Indian Journal of Biological Psychiatry
• Member of the Executive Council of the National Chapter of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry 2011-2013
• Member of the  Skills  Training  Committee  of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (IAPP) 2012-2014
• Member of the Executive Council of the Andhra Pradesh State Chapter of Indian Psychiatric Society 2011-2012
• Organizing Secretary of the National Mid Term CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society held at Vijayawada in the year 2009
• Original Research on Factors associated with Complicated Alcohol Withdrawal, done at NIMHANS De-Addiction Center, Bangalore (A Central Govt. Organization)
• Co authored a book with Sri Yandamoori Veerandranath , celebrated author, on parenting Teenagers in Telugu
• Authored many research articles and wrote a book on parenting titled “Good Parents- Good Children” in Telugu in the year 2007, for increasing awareness on psychological disorders in children.
• Faculty in many National and International Conferences