Meet Our Doctors

Dr. Padmavathi Ramachandran
Psychiatry
Registration No.
42895
Years of Experience
33 Years
Languages
English, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi
Degree
MBBS., M.D., DPM
Speciality and areas of Interest
- Psychiatry
- Community Mental Health
- Child And Adolescent
- Physical Health In Persons With Mental Illnesses
Work Experience
- Current Director of Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF, India). Have been with SCARF since 1990, in various positions
- Visiting consultant, Sundaram Medical Foundation since 1992
- Current Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, SMF; Former member of the Ethics committee SMF
Professional membership and certification
- Life fellow of the Indian Psychiatric Society and its state branch of Tamil Nadu
- Life Fellow of the Indian Association of Social Psychiatry
Research and Publications
- Uwakwe Richard, Ramachandran Padmavati, De Hert Marc, Hasnain Mehrul, Vancamfort Davy, Omoaregba Joyce, Mohammed Jidda, HjorthPeter, Modebe Ifeoma, Haider Imran, Ogualili Placidus, Haddad Peter, Jorgensen Povl, Kilian Reinhold, Becker Thomas, Blankehorn Dorothea. Monitoring and Management of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Schizophrenia- A Global Perspective: Rationale, Aims andMethods. Open Science Journal of Clinical Medicine. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2014, pp. 24-32.
- Grover, S., Nebhinani, N., Padmavati, R., Chadda, R. K., Tirupati, S. and Pallava, A. (2015), Metabolic syndrome in antipsychotic naïve patients with schizophrenia: pooled analysis of data from three Indian studies. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 9: 357–362. doi:10.1111/eip.12117
- R. Padmavati “Metabolic syndrome, serious mental illnesses & lifestyle” Indian Journal of Medical Research 143, April 2016, pp 395-397
- Cohen A, Padmavati R, Hibben M, Oyewusi S, John S, Esan O, Patel V, Weiss H, Murray R, Hutchinson G, Gureje O, Thara R, and Morgan C “Concepts of madness in diverse settings: a qualitative study from the INTREPID project” BMC Psychiatry (2016) 16:388
- Corin E & Padmavati R, “The religious texture of experience in psychosis in India”, in Spirit & Mind, Editors Basu H, Littlewood R, Steinforth AS, pg- 89-110, LIT erlang, Berlin, 2017
- Koschorke M, Padmavati R, Kumar S, Cohen A, Weiss HA, Chatterjee S, Pereira J, Naik S, John S, Dabholkar H, Balaji M, Chavan A, Varghese M, Thara R, Patel V, Thornicroft G. Experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by family caregivers of people with schizophrenia in India. Soc Sci Med. 2017 Feb 1;178:66-77
- Luhrman TM & Padmavati R, “Voices that are more benign- The experience of auditory hallucinations in Chennai” in Our Most Troubling madness case studies in schizophrenia across cultures (Editors Luhrmann & Marrow), pg-99-112, University of California Press, Oakland, USA 2016
- Ross G. White, Padmavati Ramachandran , Shuba Kumar “Addressing Mental Health-related Stigma in a Global Context” in The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health , pg 257-283Palgrave Macmillan UK, Feb 2017
- Srinivasan Tirupathi, Padmavati R, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj “Cross-cultural differences in recovery from schizophrenia: What to compare?” November 2018. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry .DOI: 10.1177/0004867418812677
- Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ben Alderson-Day, Vaughan Bell, Josef J Bless, Philip Corlett, Kenneth Hugdahl, Nev Jones, Frank Larøi, Peter Moseley, Ramachandran Padmavati, Emmanuelle Peters, Albert R Powers, Flavie Waters; Beyond Trauma: A Multiple Pathways Approach to Auditory Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Populations. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_1, 1 February 2019, Pages S24–S31, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby110
- Hill H, Killaspy H, Ramachandran P, Ng RMK, Bulman N, Harvey C. A structured review of psychiatric rehabilitation for individuals living with severe mental illness within three regions of the Asia-Pacific: Implications for practice and policy. Asia Pac Psychiatry. 2019 Feb 8;:e12349. doi: 10.1111/appy.12349. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 30734499.
- Persaud A, Day G, Ventriglio A, Gupta S, Ramachandran P, Ruiz R, Chumakov E, Desai G, Castaldelli-Maia JM, Torales J, Tolentino EJ, Bhui K, Bhugra D. Geopolitical factors, foreign aid and mental health II: Value for money. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2018 Dec;64(8):786-798. doi: 10.1177/0020764018808552. PubMed PMID: 30760106
- Periyasamy S, John S, Padmavati R, Rajendren P, Thirunavukkarasu P, Gratten J, Vinkhuyzen A, McRae A, Holliday EG, Nyholt DR, Nancarrow D, Bakshi A, Hemani G, Nertney D, Smith H, Filippich C, Patel K, Fowdar J, McLean D, Tirupati S, Nagasundaram A, Gundugurti PR, Selvaraj K, Jegadeesan J, Jorde LB, Wray NR, Brown MA, Suetani R, Giacomotto J, Thara R, Mowry BJ. Association of Schizophrenia Risk With Disordered Niacin Metabolism in an Indian Genome-wide Association Study.JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 Jul 3;. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1335. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31268507; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6613304
- Dhandapani VR, Chandrasekaran S, Singh S, et al. Community stakeholders' perspectives on youth mental health in India: Problems, challenges and recommendations. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2020;1–7
- Dhandapani VR, Ramachandran P, Mohan G, et al. Situational analysis of prevailing practices in the management of first-episode psychosis in Chennai, India. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2020;1–3. https://doi.org/10. 1111/eip.12979
- Malla, A., Iyer, S., Rangaswamy, T., Ramachandran, P., Mohan, G., Taksal, A., . . . Joober, R. (2020). Comparison of clinical outcomes following 2 years of treatment of first-episode psychosis in urban early intervention services in Canada and India. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1-7. doi:10.1192/bjp.2020.126
- Iyer, S. N., Pope, M. A., Jordan, G., Mohan, G., Loohuis, H., Ramachandran, P., … Malla, A. K. (2020). ShareDisk: A novel visual tool to assess perceptions about who should be responsible for supporting persons with mental health problems. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 66(4), 411–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764020913580
- Tirupati S, Ramachandran P, Kumar S, Mohanraj R. Cross-cultural differences in recovery from schizophrenia: What to compare? Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2019
- Tiirupati S, Ramachandran P. Schizophrenia, recovery and the individual-cultural considerations. Australas Psychiatry. 2020 Apr;28(2):190-192
- Tanya Luhrmann Padmavati et al “Sexual Shaming and Violent Commands in Schizophrenia: Cultural Differences in Distressing Voices in India and the United States.” Schizophrenia Bulletin Open (2021): n. pag. Web
- Rao NP, Ramachandran P, Jacob A, et al. Add on yoga treatment for negative symptoms of Biosketch_Padmavati_May2021schizophrenia: A multi-centric, randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Research. 2021 Apr;231:90-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.03.021
- Tirupati, S., Padmavati, R., Kumar, S. et al. Cross-Cultural Study of Recovery in People with Schizophrenia: Methodology. J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00234-8
- Sapna Nair, Preethi Kannan, Kaustav Mehta, Ananya Raju, John Mathew, Padmavati Ramachandran, The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health services: the provider perspective, Journal of Public Health, Volume 43, Issue Supplement_2, October 2021, Pages ii51–ii56, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab163
- S. Hepsipa Omega Juliet, Jainey Joseph, Sonia Sims, Kiruthika Annamalai, Lakshmi Venkatraman, Vijaya Raghavan & R. Padmavati . Does Telephone Based Intervention Combined with Face to Face Contact Improve Socio-Occupational Functioning of Persons with Schizophrenia? A Retrospective Chart Review. J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00240-w
- Parvathy R, Sugetha B,Padmavati R. Diabetes and Hypertension among patients with psychiatric illnesses attending outpatient services in a tertiary mental health centre: A crosssectional study from South India. Indian Journal of Mental Health and NeuroSciences.2020;3(1):pp 15-22
- Iyer SN, Malla A, Taksal A, Maraj A, Mohan G, Ramachandran P, Margolese HC, Schmitz N, Joober R, Rangaswamy T. Context and contact: a comparison of patient and family engagement with early intervention services for psychosis in India and Canada. Psychol Med. 2020 Sep 28:1-10. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720003359. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32981550
- Malla, A., Iyer, S.N., Joober, R. et al. An observational study of antipsychotic medication discontinuation in first-episode psychosis: clinical and functional outcomes. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02230-0
- Sood, Mamta; Chadda, Rakesh Kumar; Chawla, Nishtha; Sharma, Mona R.; Patel, Rekha; Mohan, Mohapradeep1; Iyer, Srividya2; Padmavati, R.3; Thara, Rangaswamy3; Singh, Swaran P.1 Understanding needs of stakeholders and outcomes desired from a home-based intervention program for “difficult to treat” schizophrenia and related disorders, Indian Journal of Psychiatry: Jan–Feb 2022 - Volume 64 - Issue 1 - p 38-47 doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_252_21
- Sims, Sonia & Juliet, Hepsipa & Joseph, Jainey & Gopal, Subhashini & Raghavan, Vijaya & Venkatraman, Lakshmi & Padmavati, Ramachandran. (2022). Acceptability of Peer Support for People With Schizophrenia in Chennai, India: A Cross Sectional Study Amongst People With Lived Experience, Caregivers, and Mental Health Professionals. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 797427. 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.797427
- Srinivasan, S.P., Arumugam, C., Rangeela, E., Raghavan, V., Padmavati, R., Bullying among children and adolescents in the SAARC countries: A Scoping review, HELIYON, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09781
- Bird VJ, Davis S, Jawed A, Qureshi O, Ramachandran P, Shahab A and Venkatraman L (2022) Implementing psychosocial interventions within low and middle-income countries to improve community-based care for people with psychosis—A situation analysis. Front. Psychiatry 13:807259. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.807259 ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0380-8617 Google Scholar (May 2021) Citations 2323 1226 h-index 23 16 i10-index 35 24 RG Score 33.98 (March 2022)
Awards and achievements
- University First Rank Holder in the Diploma in Psychological Medicine examinations held by the University of Bombay
- Indian Psychiatric Society, Pune Psychiatrists Association Award I for the Paper Schizophrenic patients who were never treated - A study in an Indian urban community Psychological Medicine. 28, 1113 -1117 for the year 2000
- Indian Psychiatric Society Marfatia Award for the paper entitled "Structural (MRI) brain differences between never treated Schizophrenia patients with and without dyskinesia and normal control subjects" for the year 2001.
- Young Women Scientist Award for the year 2000, awarded by the Tamil Nadu Science City (TANSA) , Government of Tamil Nadu.