Clinical Senior Research Associate, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University Wellbeing and Disability Champion
I am a specialist registrar in psychiatry and a TMAT PhD fellow. I work in the health neuroscience arm of the group’s research in our collaboration with Prof. Farooqi at the Institute of Metabolic Science. I am currently working on a number of projects studying food reward processing in normal weight and obese individuals and in patients on antipsychotic treatment
Professional/Educational Background:
MBBS 2002 (Christian Medical College, Vellore, INDIA)
MRCPsych 2006 (East of England Deanery)
CCT 2013 (East of England Deanery)
PhD 2013 (Clare College, Cambridge)
Work-related Interests:
Decision-making and Eating Behaviour (the SPICE team)
Neural and Hormonal profiles of Eating Disorders (led by PhD student Maggie Westwater)
Psychosis in Borderline Personality (led by PhD student Charley Peitzmeier)
Predictive processing models of Psychosis
Antipsychotic induced weight gain
Psychiatry in Rare Disease: Hereditary Gastric Cancer, Lipodystrophy
Non-work-related Interests:
Stand up comedy
Baking
The excellent work of Gary Trudeau and the art of baking bread