Pratima Murthy

Dr Pratima Murthy is presently Director and a senior professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. She has earlier been head of the Department of Psychiatry and head of the Centre for Addiction Medicine at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. She is an alumnus of Bangalore Medical college and NIMHANS. She has a Diploma in Psychiatry from the University of Manchester, UK and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Physicians, Glasgow. Dr. Pratima brings about 30 years of extensive experience and exceptional accomplishments in the field of mental health. A well-recognized leader in addiction psychiatry, she has been instrumental in the successful development of state-of-the-art Centre for Addiction Medicine at NIMHANS. She has served as a consultant to prominent international agencies such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). She has also served as a resource person for various flagship training programmes in substance abuse prevention and tobacco cessation in the country, and across the globe.