
रोहित वर्मा
Affiliation
Associate Professor
Department of
Psychiatry
Contact
Email :
rohit.aiims@gmail.com
Phone :
Additional Responsibility
Office Address
General OPD
Special Clinic
Surgery Days
Speciality of work
Areas of teaching
Areas of teaching
Brief Sketch:
An alumni of GMC, Kota, Rajasthan (MBBS) and AIIMS, New Delhi (MD Psychiatry), Dr. Rohit Verma further pursued his professional training at GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi and PGIMER RML Hospital, New Delhi as Senior Resident and Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi as Assistant Professor before rejoining AIIMS, New Delhi in the capacity of Assistant Professor from 2014. Apart from patient care, teaching and administrative responsibilities, he has been involved in research on various platforms. He has been commended for his work on disability in severe mental illness (Dr. BB Sethi Award) and disaster related mental health (Dr. GC Boral Award) by national societies. With interest towards the interface of Neurology and Psychiatry, he conducted research and was acclaimed for it by national and international research societies (Junior Scientist Award & Travel Grants). He is working in the field of Brain Mapping & Stimulation with state-of-the-art set up at AIIMS.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine in Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi; completed Qualifying Examination 5/2005, Degree and Thesis completed 2008
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Rajasthan, Medical College, Kota, Rajasthan, 2002
Experience
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, July 2014 – Till Date
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Drug De-addiction, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. S. K. Hospital, New Delhi India, January 2013 – July 2014
- Senior Resident, Academic-Regular, Department of Psychiatry and Drug De-addiction, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital New Delhi India, June 2010 – November 2012
- Senior Resident, Academic-Regular, Department of Psychiatry and Drug De-addiction, Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College and associated group of hospitals, New Delhi India, January 2009 – April 2010
- Junior Resident, Academic-Regular, Department of Psychiatry and Drug De-addiction, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, New Delhi India, July 2005 – Dec 2008
- Predoctoral Internship, Maharao Bhim Singh Hospital, Government Medical College, Kota, Rajasthan, India, 12/2002-12/2003
Areas of Interest
- Brain Stimulation – ECT, rTMS, TBS, tDCS
- Brain Mapping – QEEG, ERP, fNIRS
- Movement Disorders –Neuropsychological underpinnings
- mHealth – Mobile App development for management of Mental Illness
- Severe Mental Illness – FEP biological underpinnings, Botulinum toxin for sialorrhoea
Awards & Honours
- Indian Council of Medical Research Financial Assistance Grant to MD/MS/DM/MCH Thesis Programme - Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 2006
- Congress Travel Award by Melvin Yahr International Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Association of Parkinsonism and RelatedDisorders - XIX World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, Kenes International, Shanghai, China, 2011
- Dr. B. B. Sethi Award - Indian Association of Social Psychiatry, Patna, 2011
- Fellowship Travel Award by Y-Mind Sao Paulo Advanced Science School, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), State of São Research Funding Agency (FAPESP) - Y-Mind: The Cutting-Edge Science for Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Prevention, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013
- Congress Travel Award by Melvin Yahr International Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Association of Parkinsonism and RelatedDisorders - XX World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, Kenes International, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014
- Dr. G. C. Boral Award II - Indian Association of Social Psychiatry, Mysore, 2014
- Indian Council of Medical Research International Travel Grant for Non-ICMR Scientists - Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 2015
- Travel Award by The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society- 2nd Middle East Camp for Parkinson’s, Movement Disorders, and Neuromodulation, Dubai, UAE, 2015
- AIIMS Intramural Research Grant- New Delhi, 2015-17
- Junior Scientist Award by The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society– 5th Asian and Oceanian Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress, Manila, Philippines, 2016
- Travel Award by The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society- 3rd Taiwan International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Taiwan, 2017
Posts, memberships and fellowships
- Assistant Editor:Asian Journal of Cognitive Neurology
- Member, Editorial Board: International Journal of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Technical Expert: National Accreditation Board of Hospitals, National AIDS Control Organization
- Geriatric Teaching Expert: National Institute of Social Defense
- ECT Expert: National Human Rights Commission
- Expert Committee Member, Disability Certification in Mental Illness: Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Member of –
- Delhi Psychiatric Society (DPS)
- Indian Medical Association (IMA)
- Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (IASP)
- Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS)
- Indian Psychiatric Society - North Zone (IPS-NZ)
- Asian Society Against Dementia (ASAD)
- Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH)
- Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorder (APRD)
- Movement Disorder Society(MDS)
Investigator/co-investigator in funded projects
- A study of brain activation using functional near infrared spectroscopy and quantitative electro-encephalographic spectral analysis in catatonia – Ongoing (funded by AIIMS Intramural Grant; 2015-17)
- A prospective study of sleep pattern, perceived stress and coping strategies in first year medical undergraduate students – Ongoing (funded by AIIMS Intramural Grant; 2016-17)
Investigator/ co-investigator in non-funded projects
- Comparison of the effectiveness of Music and Yoga Nidra for brain activation: randomized controlled pilot study – Completed in June 2016
- A retrospective chart review of the pattern and outcome of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) therapy in a tertiary care centre – Completed in February 2016
- Development of A Mobile Based Intervention Framework for Difficult to Treat Severe Mental Illnesses in Low-Resource Settings – Ongoing
- A cross-sectional study of association of illness disability and cognitive functioning in patients to caregiver needs in first episode schizophrenia – Ongoing
- A retrospective chart review of the pattern and outcome of electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary care centre – Ongoing
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of targeted prefrontal cortex modulation with bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for reducing craving in patients with opioid dependence – Ongoing
- A study of allocentric neural navigation process schematic utilizing dynamic optic array for prospective control – Ongoing
Thesis supervised for MD/ PhD
- - as guide (None)
- -as co-guide (1- Completed; 4 - Ongoing)
Any other relevant information
Technology Development
- Mobile app for activity scheduling and monitoring of patients with severe mental illnesses (SMIs), 2016 {e-Harmony}
Collaborations
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Community Work
- Provided specialist services at Medical Camp in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh - 2016
- Provided specialist services at Medical Camp in Leh, Laddkah – 2016
- Provided specialist services at Medical Camp in Morena, Madhya Pradesh – 2017
- Public lectures for community awareness towards mental illness
Presentations at scientific meetings/ conferences/ workshops (Previous two years)
- Symposium Lecture – 22nd World Congress of Social Psychiatry (WASP-2016), New Delhi, India; Nov 2016: Disability in patients with dual diagnosis & time for paradigm shift in care.
- Symposium Lecture – 22nd World Congress of Social Psychiatry (WASP-2016), New Delhi, India; Dec 2016: Mobile telephony in mental health: relevance for social psychiatry in south asia.
- Presentation – Mental Health: Sensing and Intervention, UBICOMP Workshop 2016;Harmony: Close Knitted mHealth Assistance for Patients, Caregivers and Doctors for Managing SMIs.
- Presentation – 5th Asian and Oceanian Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress (AOPMC), Manila, Philippines, March 2016: A comparison of depressive symptoms and sleep disturbances in individuals with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson plus syndrome.
- Symposium Lecture – World Psychiatric Association Regional Congress 2015, Kochi, India; Sept 2015: Improving communication with the caregivers of persons with mental illness
- Symposium Lecture – 40th Annual Conference of IPSNZ 2015, Srinagar, India; Oct 2015: The Broken Mind: Post Disaster Psychological Sequel
- Symposium Lecture – 22nd National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (NCIASP-2015), Agra, India; Nov 2015: Stigma and Mental Disorders: What happens when psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders co-occur?
- Symposium Lecture – National Conference of Physiology and Pharmacology (APPICON-2015), Jodhpur, India; Nov 2015: Cognitive remediation
- Presentation – 1st International Brain Stimulation Conference, Singapore, March 2015: Effectiveness and tolerability of voltage dependent and time dependent brief pulse electro-convulsive mechanisms.
- Presentation – 1st International Brain Stimulation Conference, Singapore, March 2015: Response rate of rTMS in treatment refractory OCD as a variable of gender endotypic expression.