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Department of Psychiatry
I am a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Professor and Head Department of Medical Ethics, with over three decades of experience in clinical practice, teaching, and research. My clinical work focuses on adult psychiatry and I have extensive experience in the management of a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
My primary area of expertise is the ethical dimensions of mental health care, including issues related to professional conduct and doctor–patient boundaries. I have been actively involved in academic scholarship, and faculty mentorship in both psychiatry and medical ethics.
I served as Head of the Department of Psychiatry from 2011 to 2015 and am currently serving as the Head of the Department of Medical Ethics, where I continue to lead initiatives in ethics education.
At the national level, I have been Co Chair and later Chair of the Indian Psychiatric Society’s Task Force on Boundary Guidelines in the doctor patient relationship. The work on sexual boundaries has been a landmark effort by the team and the National Medical Council ( NMC) has uploaded this onto their website.
My current academic and research interests include pharmacogenomics and its application to personalized psychiatric treatment, alongside ongoing work in psychiatric ethics and professional responsibility.
Qualification/ Education
MBBS ( 1990)
MRCPsych (1994)
DNB (1996)
PGDMLE (2024)
Experience
1995- 1997 St. John's Medical College Tutor Hospital
1997- 2001 St. John's Medical College Assistant Professor Hospital
2001-2005 St. John's Medical College Associate Professor Hospital
2005- current St. John's Medical College Professor
Areas of interest
Medical Ethics
General Adult Psychiatry
Teaching UG & PG Medical Ethics and Psychiatry Pharmaco genomics
Field of Expertise
Medical Ethics and Psychiatry
Extramural portfolios/ Committees
Member FMES Forum for medical Ethics society
Board member Indian journal of psychological medicine
Other formal training/certification
PGDMLE (Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics , from National Law school Bangalore)
Institutional portfolios/ Committees
member of PG curriculum committee
Membership of professional associations/bodies
Member of Indian Psychiatry society
No groups and associations specified.
| S.I. No | Project Title | Project Lead | Year of Initiation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Psychiatric Society Guidelines on Professional Boundaries (Non-Sexual) | Sunita Simon Kurpad | 2022 | completed |
| 2 | Ethics in Pharmacogenetics Research – Academic & Training Initiative | Sunita Simon Kurpad | 2024 | ongoing |
Effective and innovative teaching methods in psychiatry for the medical undergraduates in South India: An exploratory study of teachers’ and students’ perspectives.
Ruben, Johnson-Pradeep,; Shah, Henal; Sreedaran, Priya; Chandran, Suhas; Selvam, Sumithra; Kurpad, Sunita Simon Adverse childhood experiences and substance misuse in young people in India: results from the multisite cVEDA cohort
G S Fernandes 1, A Spiers 2, N Vaidya 3 4, Y Zhang 5, E Sharma 3, B Holla 3, J Heron 6, M Hickman 6, P Murthy 3, A Chakrabarti 7, D Basu 8, B N Subodh 8, L Singh 9, R Singh 9, K Kalyanram 10, K Kartik 10, K Kumaran 11, G Krishnaveni 11, R Kuriyan 12, S Kurpad 13, G J Barker 4 14, R D Bharath 3, S Desrivieres 4, M Purushottam 3, D P Orfanos 15, M B Toledano 2, G Schumann 4, V Benegal Readings from a book by Victoria Sweet: A novel medical ethics learning experience.
Jananee Muralidharan Althea Pinto Pradeep Hopkins Arjun Bhugra Sunita Simon Kurpad Jyothi Idiculla Research Ethics in Participants with Mental Illness
Kurpad Sunita Simon Risk clustering and psychopathology from a multi-center cohort of Indian children, adolescents, and young adults
Debasish Basu 1, Abhishek Ghosh 2, Chandrima Naskar 1, Srinivas Balachander 3, Gwen Fernandes 4, Nilakshi Vaidya 5 6, Kalyanaraman Kumaran 7 8, Murali Krishna 9, Gareth J Barker 10, Eesha Sharma 11, Pratima Murthy 3, Bharath Holla 3, Sanjeev Jain 3, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos 12, Kartik Kalyanram 13, Meera Purushottam 14, Rose Dawn Bharath 15, Mathew Varghese 3, Kandavel Thennarasu 16, Amit Chakrabarti 17, Rajkumar Lenin Singh 18, Roshan Lourembam Singh 19, Subodh Bhagyalakshmi Nanjayya 1, Chirag Kamal Ahuja 20, Kamakshi Kartik 13, Ghattu Krishnaveni 7, Rebecca Kuriyan 21, Sunita Simon Kurpad 22, Sylvane Desrivieres 23, Udita Iyengar 23, Yuning Zhang 23, Matthew Hickman 24, Alex Spiers 25, Mireille Toledano 26, Gunter Schumann 6 27, Vivek Benegal 5 Growth trajectories for executive and social cognitive abilities in an Indian population sample: Impact of demographic and psychosocial determinants
Eesha Sharma 1, G S Ravi 2, Keshav Kumar 3, Kandavel Thennarasu 4, Jon Heron 5, Matthew Hickman 5, Nilakshi Vaidya 6, Bharath Holla 7, Madhavi Rangaswamy 8, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta 9, Murali Krishna 10, Amit Chakrabarti 11, Debashish Basu 12, Subodh Bhagyalakshmi Nanjayya 12, Rajkumar Lenin Singh 13, Roshan Lourembam 14, Kalyanaraman Kumaran 15, Rebecca Kuriyan 16, Sunita Simon Kurpad 17, Kamakshi Kartik 18, Kartik Kalyanram 18, Sylvane Desrivieres 19, Gareth Barker 20, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos 21, Mireille Toledano 22, Meera Purushottam 23, Rose Dawn Bharath 24, Pratima Murthy 25, Sanjeev Jain 25, Gunter Schumann 26, Vivek Benegal 27; cVEDA Consortium Neurocognitive Analysis of Low-level Arsenic Exposure and Executive Function Mediated by Brain Anomalies Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in India
Nilakshi Vaidya 1 2, Bharath Holla 3, Jon Heron 4, Eesha Sharma 5, Yuning Zhang 6, Gwen Fernandes 7, Udita Iyengar 8, Alex Spiers 9, Anupa Yadav 10, Surajit Das 10, Sanjit Roy 10, Chirag K Ahuja 11, Gareth J Barker 12, Debasish Basu 13, Rose Dawn Bharath 14, Matthew Hickman 7, Sanjeev Jain 15, Kartik Kalyanram 16, Kamakshi Kartik 16, Murali Krishna 17, Ghattu Krishnaveni 18, Kalyanaraman Kumaran 18, Rebecca Kuriyan 19, Pratima Murthy 15, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos 20, Meera Purushottam 21, Sunita Simon Kurpad 22 23, Lenin Singh 24, Roshan Singh 24, B N Subodh 13, Mireille Toledano 9 25, Henrik Walter 26, Sylvane Desrivières 6, Amit Chakrabarti 10, Vivek Benegal 2, Gunter Schumann 1 27; Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (cVEDA) Country-level gender inequality is associated with structural differences in the brains of women and men
Collaborators: Pratima Murthy, Amit Chakrabarti, Debasish Basu, B.N. Subodh, Lenin Singh, Roshan Singh, Kartik Kalyanram, Kamakshi Kartik, Kalyanaraman Kumaran, Ghattu Krishnaveni, Rebecca Kuriyan, Sunita Simon Kurpad, Gareth J. Barker, Rose D. Bharath, Sylvane Desrivieres, Meera Purushottam, Dimitri P. Orfanos, Eesha Sharma, Matthew Hickman, Jon Heron, Mireille B. Toledano, and Nilakshi Vaidya Use of morphine in critically Ill COVID-19 patients: An ethics reflection
Jyothi Mariam Idiculla, Jananee Muralidharan, Sunita Simon Kurpad Gender sensitive mental health services and ethical issues in care
Simon Kurpad S The pharmaceutical company–healthcare relationship: much ado about something
Sunita Simon Kurpad Sense and nonsensibility
Sunita Simon Kurpad Empowering Pediatric-to-Adult Transition in Kidney Transplantation: Lessons from a Medical Student’s Experience.
Iyengar AA, Kurpad SS. The Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (c-VEDA): an accelerated longitudinal cohort of children and adolescents in India
The c-VEDA consortium Vivek Benegal29, Gunter Schumann30, Pratima Murthy31, Bharath Holla31, Eesha Sharma32, Meera Purushottam33, Rose Dawn Bharath34, Sanjeev Jain31, Mathew Varghese31, Thennarasu Kandavel35, Deepak Jayarajan31, Keshav Kumar36, Preeti Jacob32, Amit Chakrabarti37, Rajkumar Lenin Singh38, Roshan Lourembam Singh38, Debasish Basu39, Subodh Bhagyalakshmi Nanjayya39, Chirag Kumar Ahuja40, Kartik Kalyanram41, Kamakshi Kartik41, Kumaran Kalyanram42, Krishnaveni Ghattu42, Murali Krishna43, Rebecca Kuriyan44, Sunita Simon Kurpad45, Sylvane Desrivieres30, Gareth Barker46, Udita Iyengar30, Yuning Zhang30, Nilakshi Vaidya30, Matthew Hickman47, Jon Heron48, Gwen Fernandes49, Mireille Toledano50, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos51, Madhavi Rangaswamy52, Gitanjali Narayanan53, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta31, Paul Elliott50, Satish Chandra Girimaji32, Madhu Khullar54, Niranjan Khandelwal55, Nainesh Joshi54, Amit55, Debangana Bhattacharya56, Bidisha Haque56, Arpita Ghosh56, Alisha Nagraj56, Anirban Basu56, Mriganka Mouli Pandit56, Subhadip Das56, Anupa Yadav56, Surajit Das56, Sanjit Roy56, Pawan Kumar Maurya56, Ningthoujam Debala Chanu38, Fujica M C38, Victoria Ph.38, Celina Phurailatpam38, Amritha Gourisankar41, Geetha Rani41, Sujatha B41, Caroline Fall57, Kiran K N42, Ramya M C42, Chaithra Urs42, Santhosh N42, Somashekhara R42, Divyashree K42, Arathi Rao44, Poornima R44, Saswathika Tripathy29, Neha Parashar29, Dhanalakshmi D29, Nayana K B29, Ashwini Kalkunte Seshadri29, Sathish Kumar29, Thamodaran Arumugam29, Apoorva Safai29, Suneela Kuman Baligar29, Anthony Mary Cyril29, Aanchal Sharda29, Rashmitha29, Ashika Anne Roy29, Shivamma D29, Kiran L29, Bhavana B R29 No Others Contributions details available.