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Thara Rangaswamy
2023-05-16 @ 11:00 - 12:00 EDT
Please join us on Thursday, May 16, 2023, from 11:00-12:00 for a special seminar by Thara Rangaswamy.
Speaker
Thara Rangaswamy
Psychiatrist by training, India
Co-Founder and Vice Chairperson, the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), India
Chair, Department of Research, SCARF, India
Title
Youth Mental Health and Early Intervention Service for Psychosis initiatives of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), India
Speaker Biography
Thara Rangaswamy, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist by training, and the Co-Founder and Vice Chairperson, of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), a not-for-profit, community-based mental health organisation in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India). She is the chair of the Department of Research at SCARF and heads its WHO Collaborating Centre.
Through her doctoral work, she advocated strongly for the inclusion of mental disability in the Disabilities Act (Govt of India). She was also responsible for the development the Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale (IDEAS) which assesses disability associated with mental disorders.
Dr. Thara collaborates extensively with universities and organisations within India and internationally, on global mental health research. She is on the Advisory Committee to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Geneva. She is also on the editorial Board of several peer-review based scientific journals. She also contributes to the editorial committee of the Lancet Commissions on stigma, and psychoses.
Dr. Thara has led many innovative mental health awareness and accessibility programs. She has spear-headed the International Conference on Schizophrenia (ICONS), and a film festival called “Frame of Mind”. She was a pioneer in the use of mobile tele-psychiatry in the district of Pudukottai (India).
Dr. Thara’s contribution mental health service, research, and advocacy has been acknowledged globally. She received the “Nari Shakti Puraskar” 2022 from the President of India for contribution to mental health. She is the first Indian to win an award from the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) for her outstanding research in clinical and community psychiatry in 2021. She was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK in 2014, and the Hon. Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinborough, 2022. She was the recipient of the President’s Gold Medal from the Royal College, UK in 2012.
Location
Live, in the Bowerman Room, Douglas Institute
Can’t make it?
The event will be broadcast by Zoom – but we would love to see you in person if you can!