Dr Shekhar Seshadri
Child Psychiatrist, NIMHANS
NIMHANS
Dr Shekhar Seshadri is a graduate of Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi and a post-graduate in Psychiatry from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS),Bangalore. He recently
retired as Professor and Head, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, (NIMHANS), Bangalore. Besides working with child and adolescent mental health including developmental disabilities, he has been actively involved in the areas of gender and sexualities, violence/trauma and abuse, children in difficult circumstances, juvenile justice, experiential methodologies, school programmes/teacher training in life skills education, community and school mental health programmes, forum theatre and qualitative research.
