Dr. Anirban Ray is a Senior Child and Adolescent psychiatrist. He passed his MBBS examination in 1998 and did MD in Psychiatry in 2005. Then he did his DM in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from NIMHANS Bangalore in the year 2016 when the course was started in India. He is one of the very first DMs in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in India and currently the only DM in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Eastern India.
Dr. Ray has also served as a faculty and guide for MD students in the department of psychiatry in various medical colleges in West Bengal. He is also a researcher-par-excellence. He has more than 25 publications in his name. His areas of interest are child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, psychopharmacology, pharmacogenomics, biological and clinical child psychiatry. He has also several international book chapters to his name. He also serves as a reviewer of a lot of national and international journals and a speaker in national and international forums.
While being a psychopharmacologist-par-excellence, he believes multimodal treatment along with psychosocial therapeutic approaches can give the best results in patients; especially in youth. Developmental formulation, psychotherapy support, open and clear communication with the patients and family is the hallmark of his treatment.
He truly believes all children are special and unique. We have to find ways to support them. He believes that a happy and self-confident child is the most successful child and his parents have done the optimal job. He believes rearing a child is one of the most challenging as well as satisfying tasks. The ways may be difficult sometimes; but with hope, optimism, and faith in the child, we can overcome most of the problems.
As a part of his commitment towards child and adolescent psychiatry, he has started a YouTube channel named ‘MindMentors’ for teaching people about common behavioural, academic, and developmental problems in this age group.
He is the expert to go in cases of all neurodevelopmental disorders like autism spectrum disorders, intellectual deficiency disorder, ADHD, academic and behavioural problems, behavioural addictions, depression, anxiety in children and young persons.
