This document provides a personal biography for Dr. Moushumi Purkayastha Mukherjee, a professor of psychiatry. It outlines her educational background, including degrees in psychiatry and MBBS, as well as her work experience as a consultant, assistant professor, and senior resident in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry in India and Oman. It also lists her publications, presentations, memberships, awards, and areas of research interest.

1. Personal Biography
Name: Dr. Moushumi Purkayastha Mukherjee
Professor , Psychiatry
Date of Birth: 31.05.1970
Sex: Female
Address: 8 H/3 ,PGIMER,
Chandigarh 160012
E mail id: moushumipm@yahoo.com
moushumipm@gmail.com
IELTS 8 Bands Academic module(2009).
Academic Qualifications:
SrN Qualification Institution / University Year
1. DNB Psychiatry NBE New Delhi November
2001
DNB Psychiatry NBE New Delhi July
2001
2. DPM Psychiatry NIMHANS, Bangalore 1999
3. MBBS – Final II Gandhi Medical College,
Barkatullah University, Bhopal
1993
4. MBBS – Final I Gandhi Medical College,
Barkatullah University, Bhopal
1992
5. MBBS – II Gandhi Medical College,
Barkatullah University, Bhopal
1991
6. MBBS – I Gandhi Medical College,
Barkatullah University, Bhopal
1990
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2. Work Experience
Job Title Junior Residency training, Psychiatry
Hospital NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Period 1996-1998
Academic
Work/Research
We had regular ward leaving tests and feedbacks. I presented a paper
titled ‘Clinical profile in Mental Retardation (NIMHANS
experience) in IACAMH conference, Goa 1997 under the guidance
of Prof. Satish Girimaji which was subsequently published.
Job Title a) Senior Research Fellow, CGC
b) Research Associate, CGC
Hospital ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) Project, Child
Guidance Clinic, Deptt. of Psychiatry PGIMER, Chandigarh India
Period 1998-1999 ( total=6months)
Project Coordinator
Co-Investigator
Prof.Savita Malhotra (MD) (Head , CGC)
Prof. Adarsh Kohli (PhD) )Psychology
Project Title Community based follow up and treatment of school children
identified to have psychiatric disorders
Job Title Senior Residency training, Psychiatry
Hospital GMCH, Sector 32,Chandigarh- India
Period July 1999 –July 2002
Academic work
/Research
I also secured my Diplomate of the National Board (DNB) degree in
November, 2001.
I did my thesis with the purpose of assessment of Quality of Life in
Care Providers of Mentally Retarded and Chronic Schizophrenic
persons under the guidance of Prof. B.S.Chavan and Dr. Suresh
Kumar
Job Title Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist
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3. Hospital Kamla Nehru Hospital (KNH) Bhopal (for Gas victims), India
Period Sep 2002 to Dec 2002 & weekly visit till Oct 2004
Job Title Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Hospital Gandhi Medical College, Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal
Period Dec 2002 – Oct 2004
Academic work/Research During this period I was looking after teaching of MBBS and post
graduate students posted in the department and research activities
with paper presentation in Staff scientific society and guiding thesis
work.
Participated in Aripiprazole phase iii drug trial in 2003.
Job Title Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
Hospital National Neuroscience Centre, Kolkata, India
Period Oct.2005 to Oct.2006(1 yr Contract) &
June 2005 (vacation posting) along with my husband (Neurosurgery)
Academic
Work/Research
Clinical discussions with DNB students posted in Neurology &
Neurosurgery. Write up on Psychological aspect of stroke.
Job Title Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Hospital MMIMSR, Ambala, India
Period Oct 2006 – Mar 2012.Continuing as Associate Professor–From
April 2012 onwards till 23rd
August 2014 (Was at ASTER, Al
Raffah Hospital, Muscat ,Oman as Specialist Consultant in
Psychiatry from 25th
August 2014 till 25th
January 2015).
Rejoined MMMC, Solan from 2nd
Feb.2015 as Associate Prof. in
Psychiatry and continuing as Professor Psychiatry since 9/9/2015
Responsibilities The hospital management of patients is different and challenging.
Here my duties include clinical work which includes assessment of
detail history, diagnosis, management plan and treatment, review of
patient on OPD follow-up or as in-patient in the ward and emergency
call duties. Postgraduation in Psychiatry in MMIMSR started
in2014.MBBS Final due for exams inMMMC Solan in 2017.
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4. CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1. Current trends in MRI Research, Bangalore 1997
2. IACAMH, Goa 1997
3. ANCIPS, Jaipur 1998
4. Symposium on sex education, Chandigarh 2001
5. N.Z. Psychiatry Conference, Barog 2001
6. IACAMH, Delhi 2003
7. CIPCON, Bhopal 2004
8. ANCIPS, Chandigarh 2005
9. CME Neurosciences, Sri Ganganagar 2005
10. NEURO 50, Kolkata 2005
11. ACHPS, Kurukshetra 2006
12. International symposium on OCD, Bangalore 2007
13. IAGMH, Jaipur 2007
14. N.Z. Psychiatry Conference, Chandigarh 2008
15. NEUROCON, Pune 2008
16. Interviewer’s Training, Basel - Switzerland 2008
17. ANCIPS, Agra 2009
18. Symposium on Clinical research & Training, S.A.S. Nagar 2009
19. Thesis workshop, Chandigarh 2009
20. 4th
MHRN Conference, Nottingham - UK 2009
21. N.Z. Psychiatry Conference, Jodhpur 2009
22. IPSHAR Conference, Karnal 2009
23. 5th
International Conference of Psychotherapy, Chandigarh 2010
24. CME Program on Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Ambala 2010.
25. International symposium on early identification of Autism, Chandigarh 2010
26. CME on deaddiction , Jalandhar 2011
27. Workshop on Statistics, PGIMER Chandigarh 2011
28. 13th
ISAM Conference , Oslo Norway 2011
29. 11th
IACAMCON Conference , Bangalore 2011
30. CME North zone IPS Ludhiana, April 2012
31. Neurogenetics conference ,PGIMER Chandigarh Sept.2012
32. ANCIPS, NIMHANS Bangalore Jan. 2013
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5. 33. 10th
International training seminar in Child & Adolescent Psy,Bocca di Magra Italy2013
34. CME on Bioinformatics ,PGIMER Chandigarh 23rd
April 2014
35. CME N.Z. IPS (Mid term), GMCH Chandigarh 11th
May 2014
36. Clinical meeting on Drug abuse and rehabilitation, Muscat Oman 21st
May 2014
37. 25th
Annual PUNCIPS ,Chandigarh 11-12 April 2015.
38. Stem cell workshop, PGIMER Chandigarh August 2015
39. Public health & community medicine envt.training,PGIMER Chandigarh September 2015
40. Research and theses publication training ,IPS Kolkata November 2015
41. CME on AIDS, MMMC&H, Solan December 2015
42. ANCIPS, People's Hospital , Bhopal January 2016
43. RNTCP CME, MMMC&H, Solan March 2016
44. Diabetes update CME, MMMC&H, Solan April 2016
45. Pharmacovigilance CME, MMMC&H, Solan July 2016
46. IPS Midterm CME, Guwahati, July 2016
47. 5th International conference on violence in the health sector,Dublin, Ireland October 2016
Membership:
IPS & North Zone, IPS
ISAM member
IACAMH member
Awards:
1. IAP Quiz Winner, College
2. IAP Quiz Winner, Zonal Level
3. Awards from Literary society
4. WHO-ISAM grant fellowship award 2011 for 13th
ISAM Conf. Oslo, for presentation.
5. Int. Fondazione (under WPA) Child Psychiatry Fellowship in Monastero Santa Croce,
Bocca di Magra, La Spezia , Italy from 23rd
June – 28th
June 2013.
6. 5th International conference on violence in health sector, Dublin ,Ireland 26-28 October
2016. Invited accomodation and stay for presentation.
Hobbies & Interest:
1. Book Reading.
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6. 2. Social Work: Working for the People with Disabilities (Composite Rehabilitation Centre –
Bhopal and CAMPS and Special Olympics).
Countries Visited:
1. U.S.A
2. Germany
3. Austria
4. Switzerland
5. U.K.
6. Spain
7. Norway
8. Sweden
9. Finland
10. Italy
11. Belgium
12. Oman
13. Ireland
Trg. on GOSE, mRS, TICS for CONSCIOUS 1 & 2 study at Basel ,Switzerland (2008)
and review Trg. – Barcelona, Spain (2009).
Publications & Presentations:
1. Treatment of Male Sexual Dysfunction. Ashok Bhiman and Moushumi
Purkayastha. Indian Journal of Behavioural Sciences. Oct, 2002Vol1 2 (2) & April,
2003, Vol 13(1) 42-52.
2. Clinical profile in mental retardation – NIMHANS experience. Moushumi
Purkayastha, Satish Girimaji, Shoba Srinath, Shekhar P. Sheshadri. Research
Endeavours in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in India. 4th
Biennial Conference
of IACAMH .Goa Nov 1997.
3. Co -author in Poster Presentation of Seasonal variations in attendance in a Psychiatric
clinic. Presented in IPS, North Zone conf. Chandigarh (Oct19-20,2002)
4. Hyponatremia in an elderly patient on Sertraline. Moushumi Purkayastha, Ashok
Bhiman. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour. Sept, 2008 Vol.13
(2)101-102.
5. Pharmacological treatment of Opioid dependence. Ashok Bhiman, Moushumi
Purkayastha. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour. Mar, 2009 Vol.14
(1) 30-37.
6. Poster Presentation of QOL in care providers of mentally retarded & chronic
schizophrenic persons at the 4th
MHRN National Scientific Conf. Nottingham, UK.
(May20-22,2009) Paper accepted for publication.
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7. 7. Paper presentation on Alcohol dependence with comorbidities – case report in 13th
ISAM Conference Oslo, Norway (Sept. 6-10,2011).
8. Quality of life in caregivers of persons with mental retardation and chronic
schizophrenia: A comparative study. Moushumi Purkayastha, B S Chavan, Suresh
Kumar. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour 2012; 17 (1): 53-59.
9. Three cases of near death experience: Is it physiology, physics or philosophy.
Moushumi Purkayastha, K K Mukherjee. Annals of Neurosciences 2012;
19(3):104-106.
10. A comparative study of Venlafaxine and Milnacipran in major depression. Vidushi
Sharma, Shailesh Yadav, Moushumi Purkayastha. Journal of Research in Medical
education and Ethics 2012; 2(2):123-127.
11. Third ventricular cyst presenting with Bobble head doll movements and tactile
hallucinations. Subbiah Sridhar, Moushumi Purkayastha, Pinaki Dutta, SS
Dhandapani, Kanchan Kumar Mukherjee. Neurology India 2013; 61(1): 87-88.
12. The status of Vitamin B12 in elderly persons suffering from Dementia. Abhishek
Dahal, Moushumi Purkayastha, B K Agrawal, Rajesh Pandey, Jasbir Singh. Indo
American Journal of Pharm Research 2014; 4(04): 2057-2063.
13. Relationship between dose, serum concentration and response to Lithium
prophylaxis in Bipolar disorders. Tilak Ram Bhandari, Ashish Puri, Moushumi P
Mukherjee, Rani Walia, Shafiqa Aslam, Shivani Sharma. International Journal of
Pharmaceutical Sciences Letters 2014; 4(4): 399-402.
14. Prevalence of depression and assessment of risk factors among school going
adolescents. Arun Vashisht, Nabeel Ahmed Gadi, Jagjeet Singh, Moushumi P
Mukherjee, Rambha Pathak, Prabhaker Mishra. Indian Journal of Community
Health 2014; 26(2):196-199.
15. Poster presentation on “Comorbidity in cases with violence episodes”. 5th International
conference on violence in health sector ,Dublin, Ireland 26-28 Oct. 2016.
16. Vitamin D supplementation in cases of mixed anxiety depression. A short
series.Moushumi Purkayastha, Pinaki Dutta, Kanchan Kumar Mukherjee.
Clinical Communiques in Medical Education 2014; 2(1) :21-23.
Accepted for publication in World Neurosurgery November 2016: (DOI:10/1016/
j.wneu.2016.11.081)
17. Jack Nicholson: A Reel and Real life Contribution to Neurosciences. Manjul
Tripathi, Moushumi Purkayastha, Kanchan Kumar Mukherjee.
18. Publication in Book: in Research Papers
The role of miRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease. Abhishek Dahal, Rajesh Pandey,
Jasbir Singh, B K Agrawal, Moushumi Purkayastha. Innovative approach in Stem
cell research, Cancer biology and Applied biotechnology. Editors: Atul Kumar
Johri, Govind Chandra Mishra. Published by :Excellent Publishing House, New
Delhi 2014; 8-12.
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8. Lectures on SSRI, DEMENTIA, MENTAL RETARDATION.
Thesis on Quality of life in care providers of mentally retarded and chronic
schizophrenic persons – an exploratory study. (For DNB – GMCH-32, Chandigarh)
Co guide of Thesis on ‘A study on effect of hearing aid on psychosocial dysfunction in
hearing impaired patients’.Thesis for MS Otorhinolaryngology, 2004 (GMC, Bhopal).
Co guide of Thesis on ‘A comparative study of Venlafaxine and Milnacipran in Major
Depression’. Thesis for MD Pharmacology ,2012 (MMIMSR, Ambala).
Co guide of Thesis on ‘A study of psychiatric morbidity among school going
adolescents in rural and urban areas of Distt Ambala,Haryana.’
Thesis for MD PSM ,2014 (MMIMSR, Ambala).
Co guide of research project for MSc Pharmacology 2014 on ‘Relationship between
dose, serum concentration and response to Lithium prophylaxis in Bipolar
disorders.’
Co guide of research project for MSc Biochemistry 2014 on ‘Status of vitamin B12 in
elderly persons suffering from Dementia’.
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