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  • Name: Dr Sreelakshmi Vaidyanathan

  • Designation: Assistant Professor
  • Qualification: MBBS, MD, DNB 
  • Email: sree.v@aiimsnagpur.edu.in
        Areas of expertise
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Medical Education

 
Membership & Training:

  • Life Fellow, Indian Psychiatric Society
  • Life Member, Indian Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Life Fellow, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Pathways Foundation, Kovai on completion of 1 year course in child and adolescent mental health (2022)

Publications:

  • Sawant NS, Vaidyanathan S, Desai ND, Rupani K, Murthy VS, Lukose E, et al. A retrospective analysis of the feedback of the west zonal virtual postgraduate teaching program. Ann Indian Psychiatry 2025;9:142-6.
  • Vaidyanathan S, Jaiswal SV. A cross-sectional study on problematic media use (PMU) in Indian children and its association with behavioral issues and parenting styles during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Cureus. 2025 Feb 28;17(2):e79809. doi:10.7759/cureus.79809.
  • Sawant N, Vaidyanathan S, Rao TSS, Telang S. A narrative review on sexual wellbeing and dysfunctions: Research in the past 15 years. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 66(12): p 1083-1100, December 2024. DOI: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_635_23
  • Shah HR, Subramanyam AA, Kate N, Vaidyanathan S, Dani AP, Misal PV. A cross‑sectional analysis of mothers’ ability to recognize expressed facial emotions in children and its association with maternal alexithymia, depression, parenting styles, and practices. Annals of Indian Psychiatry 2023; 7:121 – 9.
  • Vaidyanathan S, Jaiswal SV. Fear and Information – Seeking Behavior related to COVID – 19 in Older Indian Adults. World Social Psychiatry. 2021; 3(3); 221 – 227.

  • Miscellaneous:

    1. Vaidyanathan S, Jaiswal SV. Tardive Dyskinesia: Prevention and newer management strategies. Annals of Indian Psychiatry. 2020; 4(1): 10 – 19.
    2. Gambhire P, Thanage R, Mohite A, Zanwar V, Vaidyanathan S, Jain S, Subramanyam A, Rathi P. Role of Relaxation Therapy in Diarrhea Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Tropical Gastroenterology. 2019. 40 (4): 124 – 131.
    3. Kamath R, Shah RH, Vaidyanathan S. A comparative study of Quality of Life and factors affecting it in children diagnosed with Attention – deficit/ hyperactivity disorder versus Bronchial asthma. Indian Journal of Mental Health. 2019; 6 (2): 170 – 177.
    4. Vaidyanathan S, Rupesh E, Subramanyam AA, Trivedi S, Pinto C, Kamath R. Disability and caregiver burden: Relation to elder abuse. J Geriatr Ment Health 2018; 5: 30-4.
    5. Vaidyanathan S, Shah H, Gayal T. Sleep Disturbances in Children with Attention - Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Comparative Study with Healthy Siblings. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016; 25(3):145‐151.
    6. Deputed as Lead and Primary Coordinator for Technical Working Group – Child and Adolescent Mental Health (TWG-CAMH) under UNICEF-AIIMS Nagpur Pediatric NCDs project (2025)
    7. Member, Center for Medical Education Technologies, AIIMS Nagpur
    8. Member, PG Education Committee, Psychiatric Society of Western Zone 4 years in a row (2022 – 2026)
    9. Ongoing funded projects:
      • ICMR-STS: 02
      • A comparative analysis of clinical characteristics, treatment profile and functioning in Early-Onset vs Adult-Onset Schizophrenia: A multicentric study: Grant-in-Aid Research Project by Psychiatric Society western zonal branch
      • Observational study of association of urinary cotinine levels with quantity of tobacco in patients with smokeless tobacco dependence: awarded Intramural grant

    Books / Chapters Published:

    1. Shah H, Vaidyanathan S. Gut Brain Axis. In: Gupta R, Tikka SK, editors. Textbook of Psychiatry. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Elsevier India; 2025. p. 466 – 76.
    2. Vaidyanathan S. "Can I?": Priming for SDL Session. In: Gugapriya TS, editor. Demystifying Self-Directed Learning for Health Professions Educator: From Theory to Practice. 1st ed. Mumbai, India: KBI Publishers; 2023. p. 37 - 53.