Bangalore N. Gangadhar MBBS, MD, DSc, FAMS

Dr. Bangalore N. Gangadhar, MBBS, MD, DSc, FAMS has completed his MBBS and MD in Psychiatry from Bangalore University, Bangalore. He is currently working as Director, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru. He is a Professor of Psychiatry and served as Head, of the Department of Psychiatry from 2007 to 2009. He is the Program Director for NIMHANS Integrated Centre for Yoga since its inception. He was Chief of the De-addiction Center from 2003 to 2006. Besides he has been visiting professors at some other institutions like Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana and Vienna University.

His areas of research include biological psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy, schizophrenia, and yoga. He has more than 350 publications in National and International journals and several articles in the books. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator for many WHO, Fogarty International, DST, ICMR, AYUSH, CCRYN, and CCRAS-funded projects. Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, honored him with the Sir C V Raman award for medical sciences in 1998. He got Dr. D. S. Raju Memorial Oration Award from the Indian Psychiatry Society in 2001. Besides he has been a co-recipients of many other awards.