Dr. Aparna Ramakrishnan

Dr Aparna Ramakrishnan is a highly esteemed Consultant Psychiatrist with 22 years of extensive clinical experience, currently practising at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri West, Mumbai.

Demonstrating immense clinical expertise, she specialises in child and adolescent psychiatry, women's mental health, complex neuropsychiatry, and severe de-addiction management.

Her highly authoritative knowledge—backed by extensive consultation-liaison experience and academic excellence—ensures that patients receive the safest, most empathetic, and evidence-based mental health care.

Building on an exceptionally robust academic foundation, Dr Ramakrishnan holds an MD and a DNB in Psychiatry. She was notably awarded the highly prestigious Young Psychiatrist Fellowship by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in Berlin (2017).

As a trusted mental health professional and former Assistant Professor at Grant Government Medical College, she seamlessly combines advanced psychopharmacology with deep psychotherapy to manage profound psychological conditions.

She consults fluently in English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, and Kannada, ensuring clear communication and compassionate counselling for patients across diverse linguistic backgrounds.

Specialty Areas and Treatments

Dr Aparna Ramakrishnan provides advanced psychiatric care, focusing on precise medical management, structured psychotherapy, and complex behavioural interventions.

General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Dr Ramakrishnan offers highly precise clinical management for severe mood and thought disorders, safely treating conditions such as severe clinical depression, complex anxiety disorders, and profound psychological stress.

• Advanced Psychotherapy: Highly structured, evidence-based psychological interventions (including cognitive behavioural therapy) to safely help patients process trauma and overcome severe emotional distress.
• Personalised Psychiatric Medication Management: Precise, carefully monitored prescription of psychotropic medications to safely balance brain chemistry and alleviate severe psychiatric symptoms.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr Ramakrishnan provides comprehensive mental health care for younger patients, managing conditions such as severe behavioural disorders, profound ADHD, and complex adolescent emotional struggles.

• Specialised Paediatric Behavioural Therapy: Precise psychological strategies designed to safely modify severely disruptive behaviours and improve emotional regulation in children.
• Advanced Family Counselling: Highly empathetic, structured therapy sessions involving parents and caregivers to safely resolve deep-seated familial conflicts and support adolescent mental health.

De-Addiction and Substance Abuse

Dr Ramakrishnan expertly manages severe substance dependency, treating life-threatening conditions such as severe alcohol dependence, chronic substance abuse, and dangerous withdrawal symptoms.

• Comprehensive Medical Detoxification: Highly critical, medically supervised treatment protocols to safely manage severe withdrawal symptoms (such as delirium tremens) during the initial phases of de-addiction.
• Intensive Relapse Prevention Therapy: Advanced psychological conditioning and ongoing supportive therapy to safely prevent patients from returning to active substance abuse.

Neuropsychiatry and Consultation-Liaison

Dr Ramakrishnan offers highly targeted psychiatric interventions for medically ill patients, treating conditions such as severe psychiatric symptoms in complex medical illnesses and profound pre-transplant anxiety.

• Pre-Transplant Mental Fitness Evaluation: Highly critical psychiatric assessments to safely ensure patients are mentally prepared for the profound stress of major organ transplantation.
• Advanced Neuropsychiatric Assessment: Precise evaluation and management of complex behavioural changes stemming from severe neurological disorders or chronic systemic diseases.

Credentials and Academic Foundation

Showcasing her dedication to continuous medical education, Dr Aparna Ramakrishnan possesses a highly robust academic background in advanced global psychiatry:

• MBBS from MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai (2004)
• MD in Psychiatry from Father Muller Medical College and Hospital, Mangalore (2010)
• DNB in Psychiatry from the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi (2011)

Medical Registrations:

• Maharashtra Medical Council (2023)

Professional Memberships

Dr Ramakrishnan holds active affiliations with several highly prestigious psychiatric organisations:

• Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS)
• Bombay Psychiatric Society (BPS)
• Navi Mumbai Raigad Psychiatric Association

Past Experience

With twenty-two years of highly focused clinical experience, Dr Ramakrishnan has successfully managed thousands of complex psychiatric cases.

Her professional journey includes extensive teaching and consultant roles at premier government and private medical institutes:

• Assistant Professor: Grant Government Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai.
• Assistant Professor: D.Y. Patil Hospital, Navi Mumbai.
• Consultant: K.B. Bhabha Hospital, Bandra, and Harish Hospital.
• Registrar: Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

Current Hospital Affiliations

She currently provides expert psychiatric care and advanced psychological therapies at the following location in Mumbai:

• Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Andheri West, Mumbai. (Consultant - Psychiatry)

Awards and Recognitions

Dr Aparna Ramakrishnan is widely recognised for her clinical empathy and academic contributions to the field of Psychiatry. Her professional achievements include:

• Being awarded the highly prestigious Young Psychiatrist Fellowship at the WPA XVII World Congress of Psychiatry in Berlin (2017).
• Winning the Dr A.K. Naik Award for her paper on the 'Clinical and Biochemical Predictors of Delirium Tremens' at the BPS Annual Conference (2013).
• Earning the esteemed Sir Ratan Tata Scholarship during her 2nd and 3rd years of MBBS.

Medical Research and Publications

Dr Ramakrishnan maintains a strong commitment to academic advancement in the field of Psychiatry. She has actively trained undergraduate medical students and nursing staff, frequently lecturing on stress management and clinical neuropsychiatry.

By constantly updating her knowledge through active clinical research, she actively contributes to the evidence-based enhancement of modern psychiatric treatments. Her highly cited publications include:

• A Comparative Study on Efficacy of Risperidone versus Risperidone and Sodium Valproate Combination in the Treatment of Aggression in Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability (Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research, 2018)
• Quality of life in HIV seropositive individuals (Orissa Journal of Psychiatry, 2018)
• Perceived hassles and uplifts and their impact on perceived cognitive performance during pregnancy (Annals of Indian Psychiatry, 2017)
• Theoretical and practical issues related to the management of severe and refractory psychotic illness complicated by pulmonary embolism (Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2015)
• Vitamin B12 deficiency leading to Depression (Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research, 2015)

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