Geetha Jayaram
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Biography
Dr. Jayaram is a senior faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry. She is a community psychiatrist by training. She was Physician Advisor for the Department for 21 years and directs an inpatient service for acutely psychiatrically ill patients. She has held and continues to hold leadership positions nationally and internationally, has published over a 100 papers, abstracts, books and teaching modules. She has won several national and international awards for teaching and administrative leadership, as well as clinical research. Her long term humanitarian mental health initiative called Maanasi can be viewed at www.ProjectMaanasi.org.