Prof. Rakesh Lal

MBBS, MD

Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry and Chief, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:rakeshlall@rediffmail.com

Professor Rakesh Lal is the current acting Head of Department of Psychiatry and Chief, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Professor Chadda has various national and international publications to his credit and is a recipient of many prestigious awards.

Area of Interest: Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Community Psychiatry, Depression, Psychotherapy, Psychiatric rehabilitation, Forensic Psychiatry, Somatisation.

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Prof. Atul Ambekar

MBBS, MD

Professor, National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, All Indi Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:atul.ambekar@gmail.com

Other Affiliations

Member, National Technical Resource Group, IDU, National AIDS Control Organisation, Government of India.

Member, Strategic Advisory Group to United Nations, IDU and HIV.

Member, Technical Advisory Group on Alcohol Control – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India

Member, National Task Force on Drug Demand Reduction and Capacity Building –Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India

Member, Substance Use – Speciality Sub Section – Indian Psychiatric Society

Areas of Intrest/Expertise

Training and human resource development in the area of substance use

Prevention of HIV related to substance use – Harm Reduction

Epidemiology of drug use and HIV

Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST)

Management of substance use in diverse settings: Community, prisons, workplace etc.

Community based research to facilitate access to services

Public Health Issues related to Drug Use

Use of Information and Communication Technology in addiction-related issues

Drug Policies and Programs

He has numerous publications to his name, and supervises several MD, MSc and PhD theses.

Other activities.

Leading the team behind “Alcohol Web India”: https://www.alcoholwebindia.in/ Web-portal and internet based intervention for problematic alcohol use Resource person (for training, monitoring and evaluation) for various International and National,Government and Non-Government Organisations / Institutions.

Nodal Officer-in charge / course coordinator of “National Technical Training Center” (NTTC), at NDDTC, established under the GFATM round 9 HIV – IDU grant, Project ‘HIFAZAT’

Prof. Ravindra rao

MBBS, MD

Professor,National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:drrvrao@gmail.com

Dr Ravindra Rao is a psychiatrist working in the area of substance use disorder. He is a faculty at National Drug Dependence Treatment Center (NDDTC), Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, which is a tertiary level clinical, teaching, and research institute.

Dr Ravindra has completed his MD in Psychiatry from AIIMS, New Delhi. After his senior residency at AIIMS, he worked for three years in the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to manage the HIV prevention programmes for Injecting Drug Users. He then worked as a Technical Officer (Drugs and HIV) at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional Office for South Asia, before joining as a faculty in AIIMS. He has assisted in initiation and scale-up of Opioid Substitution Therapy in India as well as other South Asian countries,including Nepal, Bangladesh and Maldives. He has also authored clinical practice guidelines for OST implementation as well as standard operating procedures on OST.

His interests are in the area of Substance Use Disorder in particular, injecting drug use, harm reduction and community based treatment programmes. He is also interested in public health related to mental health and substance use.

Dr. Alok Agrawal

MBBS, MD

Additional Professor,National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:dralok.nddtc.aiims@gmail.com

Dr Alok Agrawal is an Assistant Professor at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Center (NDDTC), Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

NDDTC, AIIMS is the nodal centre of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in the field of addiction treatment, teaching, and research.

After pursuing his post-graduate degree in Psychiatry from Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr Agrawal continued to be engaged with the institute first as a Research Officer in a WHO-funded project and later as a Senior Resident.From 2010 to 2013, he worked as Programme Officer - Injecting Drug Use and Opioid Substitution Therapy at the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In this span, Dr Agrawal contributed to the expansion of OST services for IDUs across the country in both NGO sector as well as through Government healthcare facilities including various medical colleges. He played an instrumental role in various initiatives taken to improve the quality of HIV prevention programme for IDUs such as development of training manuals and standard operating procedures, engagement of medical instituted for trainings, accreditation of OST centres by NABH, etc. After a brief stint as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, he joined AIIMS, New Delhi as faculty in June, 2014.

His primary area of work is Substance Use Disorders and their treatment.

He is particularly interested drug use epidemiology, injecting drug use, harm reduction, treatment of addictive disorders in community and other special settings, etc.

Dr. Biswadip Chatterjee

MBBS, MD

Additional Professor,National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:biswadip.c@gmail.com

Dr Biswadip Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Center (NDDTC), Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. NDDTC, AIIMS is the nodal centre of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in the field of addiction treatment, teaching, and research.

After completing his MD (Psychiatry) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (New Delhi), he worked as an Assistant professor in Department of Psychiatry at AIIMS, Patna. Subsequent to that, he joined Department of Psychiatry and NDDTC,AIIMS, New Delhi in July 2014. He has various national and international publications to his credit. He has also been the recipient of various awards like first prize for best oral presentation titled “Impact of age at onset on course of Bipolar Disorder - I: A comparative study of early-onset versus adult-onset illness from India” at 13th Congress of ASEAN Federation of Psychiatry & Mental Health; 2012 held in Singapore.

His area of interests include substance use disorder(s) among children, adolescents and women and neurobiology of nicotine and alcohol dependence.

Mr. Van Shyam

Master of Science in Clinical Psychology

DTC Coordinator at NDDTC, AIIMS, “Strengthening the DDAP: Establishment DTCs under the Scheme”, All India Institute of Medical Science.

Email:vanshyam04@gmail.com Email:projectdtc.aiims@gmail.com

He is working as DTC Coordinator at NDDTC, AIIMS, New Delhi. Under the scheme “Strengthening DDAP.

He was worked as Mental Health Coordinator (Consultant) at the public health of India (P.H.F.I.) from Feb 2016 to October 2016, in collaboration with NHM, Madhya Pradesh, and closely associated with the Schools, Hospitals and other NGOs for proving consultancy services. He was also worked as Assistant Research Officer (Psychologist) at The INCLEN TRUST INTERNATIONAL, New Delhi, from October 2012 to Feb 2016. As Mental Health Professional with four years experience in community-based as well as health system based mental health research and evidence-based intervention related to early childhood development, and common mental health issue under the several projects and a strong background in clinical psychology, health psychology, and computer science with extremely oriented in the area of mental health research and mental health informatics.

Interested Area:
Mental Health Research. Health Informatics System Development (mental health care and education).

Ms. Anshika Tyagi Vats

MSW [Master of social work]

Field & training Coordinator at NDDTC, “Strengthening the DDAP: Establishment of DTCs New Delhi under the scheme, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:anshika.tyagi820@gmail.com

Ms. Anshika is an Field cum training coordinator at the National Drug Dependence Treatment Center (NDDTC), Department of Psychiatry,All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. NDDTC, AIIMS is the nodal centre of the Ministry of Health Family Welfare, Government of India in the field of addiction treatment.

Mohit Shakya

Master in Information Technology & Bachelor of technology in computer science , Lucknow university

Programmer at “Strengthening the DDAP: Establishment of DTCs New Delhi under the scheme, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Email:mohitcs@live.com

After completing his B.tech (Computer Science & engg) from Lucknow university (India), he worked as an software developer

He has 8 year software/Web development experience in IT sector. Played key role in develop windows and web based application according to user requirement. Worked for client side project. His area of intrest regarding development, Dot Net , C#, Jquery, SQL Server etc