Dr. Prashant Gupta

BDS

It is a great privilege and honour for me to lead the Central India Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (CIIMHANS) as Director

CIIMHANS is well-renowned as a centre for mental health & allied fields. The vision of CIIMHANS is to be a world leader in these areas and to evolve state of the art approaches to patient care through translational research. The contributions of CIIMHANS in providing the highest quality of clinical services, standards of excellence in training and active engagement in research in these specialised fields are widely known. CIIMHANS has been committed to training in basic sciences related to the brain and mind, behaviour in health and ill-health, translation of evidence from the bench to the bedside, as well as in the community.

Our focus at CIIMHANS has been to develop the highest standards of evidence-based care for psychiatric disorders, to strengthen and evolve diagnostic facilities to adopt a public health approach to address these disorders and ensure equitable care as a right, particularly to the vulnerable sections of our society.

An institution of this stature is not just built of bricks and mortar. The soul of the institution is the family of nurses and administration, all working together for the well-being of patients and society. It is only possible to nurture CIIMHANS when all of us work together and foster further growth. Working together with Team CIIMHANS, all the well-wishers, collaborators and with support from civil society and government, we will strive to maintain the legacy of excellence steer CIIMHANS to a greater future.