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Associate Professor
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Associate professor
Department of Psychiatry
Qualification/ Education
MBBS
M.D (psychiatry)
Forgarty fellowship (NIH)
Experience
14 years
Areas of interest
geriatric psychiatry
common mental disorders
women mental health
Schizophrenia
Field of Expertise
geriatric psychiatry
substance use disorders
schizophrenia
common mental disorders
Fellowship & Membership
Recipient of GloCal Health Fellowship for the 2019/20 academic year, supported by
our NIMH, University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) USA.
Other formal training/certification
- Have completed certification course on Cognitive behavioral therapy from
Beck’s institute USA in 2020 - Have completed certification course on dialectical behavior therapy by Dr
Marshal Linehan in 2020 - Have completed online training on Motivational Interviewing for Addiction
from Miller’s and Rollnick institute USA - Have completed Research Methodology course conducted by Rajiv Gandhi
University, held on 22 August 2017 at Bangalore - Have completed a day workshop in ‘Good Clinical practice in Research’ held
at St. John’s academy of Health Sciences on October 19, 2016. - Have been a participant and certified as facilitator for Problem Based Learning
held at St John’s Medical academy of Health Sciences in Jan 2015
Institutional portfolios/ Committees
- Friday clinical meeting
- CBME
- NABH
- Mentorship comitttee
Membership of professional associations/bodies
- Indian psychiatry society
- Indian psychiatry society -south zone '
- Indian psychiatry society -Karnataka chapter
- world association of psychiatric association
Awards and Recognitions
- Recipient of GloCal Health Fellowship for the 2019/20
- Third place in Creative expressions contest for video by UC Global Health
Institute USA - Recipient for the prestigious S.S Jayaram award at IPSOCON
No groups and associations specified.
| S.I. No | Project Title | Project Lead | Year of Initiation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘A Randomised controlled trail of Acetazolamide for patients with treatment resistant Schizophrenia’’ | Dr Smita desphande , dr divya hegde | 2022 | ongoing |
| 2 | Effeeffectiveness of training health workers in providing brief intervention to males with hazardous drinking and assessment of depression in their spouses in rural south India. | Dr Divya hegde | 2019 | completed |
| 3 | A study of patterns and factors affecting follow -up care of elderly psychiatric patients in a tertiary care hospital – mixed method design | Dr Oshin Dr Divya Hegde | 2025 | ongoing |
Correlates of disability among primary care patients with common mental disorders and chronic medical conditions- a cross-sectional study from rural South India
Salazar LJ, Hegde D, Srinivasan K, Heylen E, Ekstrand ML Workplace violence in the healthcare setting and its psychological impact on healthcare workers
Kumar RP, Verghese W, Hegde D, Rasquinha SL, Rao RM, Kumar A Challenges in Taking Sexual History: A Qualitative Study of Indian Postgraduate Psychiatry Trainees
Hegde D, Sreedaran P, Pradeep J. No Others Contributions details available.