Dr. Sourav Das

Dr. Sourav Das, MBBS, MD, DNB, CCAM, IBSM is a dynamic and experienced Consultant Psychiatrist with special interest, training, experience and certifications in the fields of Sleep Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He completed his MBBS at a very young age of 22 years from Calcutta National Medical College with awards and distinctions in Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Pathology. He then worked in IPGMER (SSKM Hospital) Kolkata as a Junior Resident (DPM Trainee) at the Institute of Psychiatry. He then completed his MD (Psychiatry) from the prestigious LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur, a 336 bedded Tertiary care Psychiatry Hospital (A Centre of Excellence, awarded by GoI) directly under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, with distinction. He also did a Certificate course in Addiction Medicine from NIMHANS, Bangalore (An Institute of National importance). He also underwent special training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from NIMHANS, Bangalore and a certificate course in Cultural Psychiatry in Chennai under BALM-University College London. He had underwent intense and comprehensive training in Sleep Medicine, from Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, the largest tertiary care referral center of Uttarakhand and one of the very few accredited Sleep Medicine training centers in India. He subsequently topped the International Board Certification in Sleep Medicine, conducted by the World Sleep Federation. He also passed the International Certification in Addiction Medicine Examination held by the International Society of Addiction Medicine based in Canada.He is also well endowed in research work, having been awarded the prestigious ‘Short Term Studentship’ on a project on HIV/AIDS epidemiological study by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Govt. of India, whilst in MBBS. Subsequently, he received a prestigious research award along with International travel Grant for his MD Thesis on Psychoneuroimmunology from the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, which was subsequently published by the prestigious Journal of Neuroimmunology (Elsevier). He has presented many research papers at various state and national conferences and has many publications in various National and International Journals of repute. He is also a reviewer for many prestigious International journals in the fields of Psychiatry and allied sciences.