Speaker
Dr Sundar Gnanavel
Consultant with neurodevelopmental services, child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) in Sunderland, North East England
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Biography
Dr Sundar Gnanavel, is a consultant with neurodevelopmental services, child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) in Sunderland, North East England. He recently completed his higher training in CAP through the Northern scheme and completed his basic psychiatry training previously from the All India Institute of medical sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He holds a postgraduate certificate in medical education from Newcastle University and Edward Jenner certificate from NHS leadership academy. His areas of special interest include biological psychiatry (genetics, neuroimaging and psychoneuroimmunology); curriculum development in child psychiatry for both specialists and non- specialists; neurodevelopmental psychiatry and cultural determinants and neurosciences as applied to child and adolescent psychiatry.
His other interests include developing models of service delivery for neurodevelopmental disorders and collaborative with service users and primary care physicians for the same. He is the Royal college of Psychiatry, neuroscience champion for the North East England region under the Gatsby-Welcome trust neuroscience project and a taskforce member of EPA (European psychiatric association)- ECPC (Early career psychiatrists committee). He has won a number of international awards (including from WPA, IACAPAP, IBRO and RCPsych, UK) and has a number of publications in reputed international journals.