EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
(1963 - 1969)
Madras Medical College
Madras, India

Employment:
February, 1991 to present

Medical Director of Mental Heath Outpatient
Clinic - Staten Island University Hospital.

Responsibilities include direct patient care, mediation monitoring, Quality Assurance and Supervision of Psychiatrists.

September, 1988 to 1990

Staff Psychiatrist - Staten Island University Hospital - Mental Health Outpatient Clinic. Had been functioning also as Acting Medical Director since October, 1989 to February, 1991.

1987 - 1988

Staff Psychiatrist at Richard Hall Community Mental Health Center - Bridgewater, New Jersey.

September 1980 -1987

Permanent Staff Psychiatrist with Staten Island Hospital's Inpatient and Outpatient Clinics.

February, 1979 to September, 1980

Staff Psychiatrist at South Beach Psychiatric Center, Staten Island and Attending Psychiatrist at Staten Island Hospital's Outpatient Clininc.

June, 1978 to February, 1979

Staff Psychiatrist at Creedmoor State Hospital Queens Village, New York.

TRAINING:
August, 1977 to October, 1977

Post Graduate Fellow in Child Psychiatry at Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. Responsibilities include diagnostic evaluations, outpatient assignments, play therapy, family therapy, psychopharmacological treatments of children and adolescents, didactic lecture and seminar participations.

July, 1974 to 1977

Residency training in Adult Psychiatry in an AMA approved program at Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens Villiage, New York. Training included inpatient treatment, outpatient clinics, neurology rotation, child psychiatry and liaison rotation, supervision of first year residents, alcoholic intervention psychiatry, didactic lecture and spychotheraphy under the supervision of an analyst from Payne Whitney Clinic. Training background was partly analytically oriented.

October, 1969 to October, 1970

Rotating internship in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology and public health. Intensive training included day and night uninterrupted emergency room coverages, lectures, seminars, and clinical interventions.

LICENSURES:
Maine, New Jersey, New York

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Member of American Psychiatric Association since 1976.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Member of New Jersey Chapter of APA. Received Category I Award of APA's CME Program in February, 1981.