“She completed her Postgraduate Psychiatry degree at the University of Bombay, India and since then has been with SCARF for over 28 years”
Dr R Padmavati currently holds the position of Director at Schizophrenia Research Foundation, (SCARF, India).
She completed her Postgraduate Psychiatry degree at the University of Bombay, India and since then has been with SCARF for over 28 years. She has been involved in several research areas like epidemiological studies, drug trials, untreated schizophrenia, culture and psychoses, metabolic disorders in mental illness. She has been closely involved in SCARF’s community mental health programs and the telepsychiatry project. Her key interests have been in socio-cultural aspects of Mental illnesses. She has a keen interest in psychosocial rehabilitation. She has extensively published and is a reviewer of many national and international psychiatric journals. She teaches postgraduate students of Psychiatry and guides postgraduate dissertations.