1. Areas of Research interest : Substance use disorders,

comorbidity, outcome study, teaching and training in psychiatry,

psychotherapy

2. Special Clinics: Deaddiction, Tobacco cessation Clinic

3. List of publications/presentations:

Articles

Chand PK, Mattoo SK, Sharan P. Quality of Life and its Psychosocial

Correlates in Bipolar Disorders stabilized in Lithium. Psychiatry and Clinical

Neurosciences 2004; 58: 311-318.

Sampath SK, Chand PK, Murthy P. Prevalence of alcohol harmful use in a

rural hospital. Indian Journal of Community Medicine. Vol. 32, No. 1,2007,93. full

text accessible at http://www.ijcm.org.in/text.asp?2007/32/1/93/53423

Murthy P, Chand PK, Harish MG et al. Outcome of Alcohol Dependence:

The Role of Continued care. Indian Journal of Community Medicine Vol 34, No

2, 148-151 2009 .full text accessible at

http://www.ijcm.org.in/text.asp?2009/34/2/148/51226

Chand PK, Chaturvdi SK. Distressing behaviors of alcohol dependence

patients: A study from India. Accepted in Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Isaac M, Chand PK, Murthy P. Outcome of Schizophrenia in wider

International Community. British Journal of Psychiatry 50; 2007: s 71-77.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/191/50/s71 cited by 12 other articles

Isaac M, Chand PK. Dissociative and conversion disorders: Beyond

boundaries. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2006: 19; 61-66.

Isaac M, Chand PK, Murthy P. Research, Empiricism and Practice in Low

Income Countries. International Review of Psychiatry 2007:9; 559-571.

Thirthalli J, Chand PK . The implications of medication development in the

treatment of substance use disorders in developing countries. Current Opinion

Psychiatry. 2009 May;22(3):274-80.

Benegal V, Chand PK, Obot IS (2009) Packages of Care for Alcohol Use Disorders

in Low- And Middle-Income Countries. PLoS Med 6(10): e1000170.

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000170 full text accesible at

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000170

Chand PK. Current trends in management of alcohol dependence. Indian

Journal of Psychological Medicine. 2004;Jan: 33-46.

Chand PK. Pharmacotherapy in alcohol dependence in Andhra Pradesh Journal

of Psychiatry 2003; 1 : 7-15.

Malhotra A, Chand PK, Kumar D. Relaxation Therapies : an overview. Indian

Journal of Social Psychiatry 2002; 18: 29-39.

Chand PK, Murthy P. Climate Change and Mental Health. WHO SEARO Regional

Health Forum 2008: (1) 12 ;43-47 full text accessible at

http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Regional_Health_Forum_Volume_12_No_1_Climate_c

hange_and_mental.pdf

Chakrabarti S, Chand PK. Lithium induced Tardive Dystonia treated with the

clozapine. Neurology India 2002;50: 473-475.

Chand PK, Murthy P. Megadose lorazepam dependence. Addiction 2003;98:

1635-36.

Chand PK, Kalyani GS, Murthy P. Venlafaxine associated hypomania in

unipolar depression. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 49: 244.

Chand PK, Anand S , Murthy P. Monosymptomatic Hypochondriacal

Psychosis: atypical presentation and response to Olanzapine. Journal of

Clinical Psychiatry 2005; 66:800-801.

Chand PK, Murthy P. Mania as presenting symptom in Wilson's Disease.

Acta Neuropsychiatrica Feb 2006: 18:47-49.

Chand PK, Anand S, Murthy P. Reply to Monosymptomatic hypochondrial

psychosis or tardive dystonia. J Clinical Psychiatry 2006: 67; 329.

Oomen E, Chand PK, Sharma PSVN. Aripiprazole associated tardive

dystonia. Primary companion Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2006; 8 : 378-379. full

text accessible at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764509/ cited by 1

paper

Rao N, Chand PK, Murthy P. Late-onset Pedophilia responding to Sertraline .

Primary Companion to Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2007; 9: 235-236 full text

accessible at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1911163/ cited by 2

paper

Chand PK, Murthy P. Lilliputian Hallucinations. Understanding a strange

Phenomenon. German Journal of Psychiatry 2007 http://www.gjpsy.uni-

goettingen.de/gjp-article-chand.pdf

Chand PK, Raghundan VNGP, Murthy P. Selective SSRI and Mania:

Escitalopram associated mania in unipolar depression. Indian Journal of

Psychological Medicine 2006: 28; 137-140.

Gupta A, Sreeyjan K, Chand P, Benegal V, Murthy P. Carisoprodol-induced

amnestic state. Indian Journal Of Psychiatry 2008; 50: 72-73.

Subodh BN, Muthy P, Chand PK, Benegal V, A case of poppy tea

dependence in an octogenarian lady. Drug and Alcohol review . Drug and

Alcohol Review (2009) DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2009.00134.x

e- publications

Chand PK. Robbing the poor. Serious concern: Psychiatry Bulletin. January 2005

Chand PK. Writing a case report. A good starting point. British Medical Journal September 2004.

Book

Chand PK . Handbook of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. Publisher: Sikkim-

Manipal University 2006-07. for paramedical (B Sc Nursing, BPT and BOT)

courses

Book Chapter

Chand PK & Isaac M. “Management of Substance Use Disorder in Primary care”

In Substance Use Disorders, Manual for Physicians (ed. By Rakesh Lal)

Published by AIIMS-WHO National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, AIIMS

New Delhi 2005 (Chapter15 page no 1-12) free full text is available at

http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/spcenter/nddtc/Substance Use Disorder - Manual for

Physicians.pdf

Murthy P & Chand PK. “Substance use Disorders in Women”. In Substance Use

Disorders, Manual for Physicians AIIMS-WHO National Drug Dependence

Treatment Center, AIIMS New Delhi 2005 (Chapter 17 Page no 1-8) free full text is

available at http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/spcenter/nddtc/Substance Use

Disorder - Manual for Physicians.pdf

Chand PK & Isaac MK. “Choosing an atypical antipsychotics” In Use of Atypical

Antipsychotics in India published by Crescent Pharma Hyderabad 2005 (p 34-

43).

Chand PK . “Relapse Prevention” in Psychosocial interventions for Persons with

substance abuse : Theory and Practice (ed. by Murthy and Shanthi Nikhetha)

published by NIMHANS- Deaddiction center (WHO-Government of India

collaborative programme; 2007 (Chapter 5 , P41-49.) full text available at

http://www.whoindia.org/LinkFiles/Mental_Health_&_substance_Abuse_psychosocial_Interven

tions_for_persons_with_substance_abuse.pdf

Sreejayan K, Chand PK . “Pharmacotherapy for Addictions: : A Brief guidelines ” in

Psychosocial interventions for Persons with substance abuse : Theory and

Practice (ed. by Murthy and Shanthi Nikhetha) published by NIMHANS-

Deaddiction center (WHO-Government of India collaborative programme; 2007

(Chapter 5 , P107-112). Full text accessible at

http://www.whoindia.org/LinkFiles/Mental_Health_&_substance_Abuse_psychosocial_Interven

tions_for_persons_with_substance_abuse.pdf

Issac MK, Chand PK, Murthy P. “Classification in Psychiatry Disorders” In

Handbook of Psychiatry: A South Asian Perspective (2nd edition) (ed. By

Dinesh Bhugra, Gopinath Ranjith, S K Chaturvedi) In Press

Murthy P, Chand PK, Benegal V. “Addressing Substance Use Problems: Current

Status and Future Directions” in Mental Health India published by DGHS, India

(In Press)

Reviewer

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry .An International Journal of American

Association Psychopharmacology, 2005 accessible at www.psychiatrist.com

Indian Journal of Pharmacology. A National Journal of Indian Association of

Pharmacolologist since 2005: Reviewing papers related to

Psychopharmacology sections. www.ijp-online.org

Indian Journal of Psychiatry. National journal of Indian Psychiatry Society and

Indexed in Pubmed

Asian Journal of Psychiatry. International Journal of Asian Psychiatry

Federation and indexed in SCOPUS

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. An international journal

Editorial board member

Indian Journal of Private Psychiatry

Presentations

Invited speakers

National

1. Common Neuropsychiatry Disorders in India. CME organized by Department

of Psychiatry. Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. 2005

2. Alternate Therapy in Mental Helath. CNE (Continued Nursing Education)

organized by Manipal College of Nursing 2006

3. HIV Counseling. Indian Medical Association (IMA) Shimoga. Karnataka 2005.

4. Pharmacological management of Nicotine Dependence. 2008 Dept of Pulmonary

Medicine St John’s Medical College Bangalore

5. Slow suicide. Prevention of tobacco related mortality . 11th October 2009 at

Command Hospital Bangalore

Symposium/ Workshop

Organized/Participated

1. Organized one day workshop on substance abuse management for

Primary health care doctors at District hospital training center

Chikkamagalur. Collaboration with Directorate of Health and family

welfare on 23rd

September 2009. Also delivered a lecture on

management of alcohol and tobacco in a primary health care setting.

2. Organized one day workshop substance abuse management for

Primary health care doctors at Hassan. Collaboration with Directorate

of Health and family welfare on 24th

March 2009.

3. Participated and delivered a lecture on Identification of alcohol abuse

in primary health care in one-day workshop substance abuse

management for Primary health care doctors at District Hospital,

Mandya. Karnataka Collaboration with Directorate of Health and

family welfare on 2007

4. National workshop for dissemination of “Post marketing study

findings by National Drug Dependence” Centre AIIMS, New Delhi

5. Workshop on “Tobacco Control for Health Professionals” 11th – 13

th

December ,Bangalore. Delivered lecture on “Pharmacological

Management of Nicotine Dependence”

6. Participated and presented research paper titled “Trends in

Pharmacological management of opiate dependence: Indian

experience” in international workshop on “Treatment of drug

problems” at Luang Prabang, Laos, Asia Organized by World health

organization, UCLA and University of South Australia from 7th to

10th December 2008.

CME/Conference participated

1. CME on stress, suicide and alcoholism organized at Command Hospital Bangalore.

Delivered a scientific talk on Slow suicides- Prevention and management of tobacco

addiction on 11.10.2009

2. Lecture on Common Neuropsychiatry Disorders in India. CME by

department of Psyhciatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University,

Manipal, Karnataka.

3. International conference by World congress of Asian psychiatry at Taipei7-10th November

2009.

Posters/ Free Papers

6. Uday Kumar K, Vallikiran, Chand PK. Co-Morbidity and Phenomenology Of

Substance Related Disorders. International conference of Addiction on Golden

Jubilee of NIMHANS, Bangalore 2005.

7. Narendra Kumar MS, Raja MH, Chand PK .Intervention, Policy and

Programming in Substance abuse: NIMHANS experience. International

conference of Addiction on Golden Jubilee of NIMHANS, Bangalore 2005.

8. Chaturvedi SK, Chand PK. “Efficacy of Psychoeducation in Schizophrenia” in

CME at Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College. Manipal Academy

of Higher Education, Manipal 2003

9. Murthy P, Chand PK. Imparting education for responsible drinking. Presented at

World Health Organisation workshop in AIIMS, New Delhi 2005.

10. Avasthi A, Chand PK. Overview of Recent Developments in

Neuropsychopharmacology. presented in Mid-term CME-2002. Indian

Psychiatric Society. North Zone. IHBAS, NewDelhi 2002.

11. Sundaram M, Chand PK, Murthy P. Psychiatry manifestations of Late onset

SSPE. ANCIPS Mysore 2005

12. Anil K, Chand PK, Sharma PSVN. Outcome of BPAD following planned lithium

discontinuation. ANCIPS Mumbai 2006

13. Anup A, Chand PK, Sharma PSVN. Antipsychotic and weight gain. ANCIPS

Chennai 2007

14. Ravi P, Chand PK, Sharma PSVN. Prevalence of Adult ADHD in Alcoholism.

ANCIPS Chennai 2007.

15. Gupta A, Murthy P, Rao SL, Chand PK. A short neuropsychology screening

examination for alcohol dependence. Presented in International Conference of

Mental Health and Social Psychology , July 2007

16. Dhanya R, Madhusudan S, Subodh BN, Chand P K, Benegal V, Murthy P. Drug

prescription patterns in in-patients with Alcohol Dependence. Presented in

National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society Agra , January 2009

17. Nadh UR, Subodh. B.N, Sreejayan.K, Madhusudan M, Chand PK, Vivek

Benegal, Pratima Murthy Long term outcome of opioid dependence patients on

maintainance buprenorphine. Presented in National Conference of Indian

Psychiatric Society, Agra January 2009

18. Chand PK. Assessing and managing nicotine dependence: summing up.

Presented in National dentistry workshop August, 2008

19. Chand PK. Pharmacological management in Nicotine Dependence. Workshop

for TCC organized by WHO country office New Delhi November 2008

20. Chand PK. Management of alcohol dependence. Workshop for primary health

professionals at Hassan March 2009.

21. Sivaraman S, Subodh.B.N, Madhusudan S, Chand PK, Benegal V, Murthy P

Murthy Clinical profile of substance dependent women attending a tertiary care

psychiatry hospital in South India. Presented in National Conference of

Indian Psychiatric Society, Agra January 2009

Guide/ Co-guide

7. MD thesis: Four

1 Guide: Prevalence of psychiatry disorders in patients with

alcohol dependence 09

2 Co guide: Study Of Glutamate Receptor Gene Polymorphisms In Alcohol

Dependence And Severe Alcohol Withdrawal, NIMHANS 08

3. Co guide: Assessment of Understanding about Informed Consent related

to a Mock Antidepressant Drug Trial among Patients with Depression,

NIMHANS 08

4. Co guide: Prevalence of psychiatry disorders among family members

of alcohol dependence patients 09

4. Ph D thesis: Two

1. Utilization pattern of antipsychotic drugs in different hospitals,

Manipal College of Pharmacological Sciences, Manipal

University, Manipal Udupi (completed)

2. Lakhmana PSW

3. Chandrasekhar PSW

5. M Phil thesis:

1 Efficacy of structured teaching programme on knowledge about relapse

prevention among alxohol dependent patients at deaddiction center,

NIMHANS (completed)

Projects

1. Funded

Principal Investigator

Sl.No Name of the

Funding

Agency

Title of the

Project

Name of the

Investigator(s)

Date of

sanction

Duration

of the

project

Total Amount

Sanctioned

Amount per

annum

1 WHO Country

Office

Naturalisti

c follow up

study of

patients

with

substance

use

disorder

Principal

Investigator

Prabhat Chand

Co-investigator

Pratima Murthy

Vivek Benegal

1.9.08 One year 5,00,000 Four

installment

2 DeaddictionNI

MHANS

Prevalence

of

substance

use

disorder in

first

episode

Principal

Investigator

2009 Six

months

1,50,000 One time

psychosis

Co Investigator

Sl.No Name of the

Funding

Agency

Title of the

Project

Name of the

Investigator(s)

Date of

sanction

Duration

of the

project

Total Amount

Sanctioned

Amount per

annum

1 WHO Tobacco

Cessation

Centre/

Project

PI: Pratima

Murthy

Co PI: Vivek

Benegal

Prabhat Chand

2 WHO

Country

Office

Principal

Investigator

Pratima Murthy

Co-investigator

Pratima Murthy

Vivek Benegal

1.9.08 One year 5,00,000 Four

installment

2

Principal Investigator

1. PI: Naturalistic follow up study of in-patients with substance

use disorders(alcohol dependence) WHO funded project 5 lakh

Ongoing

2. PI: Prevalence of substance use in first episode psychosis.

NIMHANS deaddiction funded 1.5 Lakh ongoing

3. Co PI: AIIMS project

4. Co PI: Pratima Murthy project

5. Co PI: TCC

4. Current research : in the area of substance use disorders, treatment and intervention

5. List of awards: Young Psychiatrist award by Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology

2008

Distinction in Pharmacology in MBBS