MBBS, DM Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
MD Psychiatry
Dr Anirban Ray is a senior Child and Adolescent psychiatrist. He has passed his MBBS examination in 1998 and done MD in Psychiatry in 2005. Then he has done his DM in child and adolescent psychiatry from NIMHANS Bangalore in 2016 after the course has started in India. He is one of the initial batches of DM in India and currently the only DM in child and adolescent psychiatry in Eastern India. He has also served as a faculty and guide for MD students in department of psychiatry in different medical colleges of the state. He is also a researcher par excellence. He has more than 25 publications in his name. His areas of interest is child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, psychopharmacology, pharmacogenomics, biological and clinical child psychiatry. He also has international book chapters to his name. He is also serves as a reviewer of a lot of national and international journals and a speaker in national and international forums. While being a psychopharmacologist par excellence, he believes, multimodal treatment, along with psychosocial therapeutic approaches can give the best results in patients specially in youth. Developmental formulation , psychotherapy support, open and clear communication with the patients and family is the hallmark of his treatment. He truly believes all children are special and unique. We have to find ways to support them. He believes that a happy and self-confident child, is the most successful child and his parents has done the optimal job. He believes rearing a child is one of the most challenging as well as satisfying tasks. The ways may be difficult sometimes but with hope, optimism and faith in the child, we can overcome most of the problems. As a part of his commitment towards child and adolescent psychiatry he has started a YouTube channel named 'MindMentors' for teaching the people about common behavioural, academic and developmental problems in this age group. He is the expert to go in cases of all neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorders, intellectual deficiency disorder, ADHD, academic and behavioural problems, behavioural addictions, depression, anxiety in children and young persons.