Dr. Rakesh Lal

Professor 

MBBS, M.D.   (Psychological Medicine)

rakeshlall@rediffmail.com , rlall@tendercare.com

      Field of interest:

       Substance Abuse in Women

       Adult Psychiatry (Depressive Disorders)
 

Total number of publication till date: 33
Details of publication from yr. 2000 onwards  till to date:
 

1. P. Shyangwa, B.M. Tripathi, R, & R. Lal : Family Burden in Opioid Dependent Persons.  The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Vol. 3, Suppl 1, May 2000.
 

2. Rakesh Lal : Monitoring trends of drug abuse In : Substance Use Disorder : Manual for Physicians. (ed. Rajat Ray) pp.
   154-163.

3. Tripathi B.M. and Rakesh Lal : Doctor- Patient Relationship in Perspective. The Mind Healer – Millennium Issue. Vol 3, No.4
    October 2000, pp 15-17.

4. B.M.Tripathi, Rakesh Lal, H.P.Jhingan and Sumit Gupta : Disability in Mental Illness. Journal of Personality and Clinical
   Studies. Vol.17, No.1,2001,1-8.

5. Goyal A, Chumber S, Tandon N, Lal R, Srivastav A and Gupta S  : Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients of primary
    hypothyroidism and outcome following surgery . Indian Journal of Medical Sciences. Vol 55. No.12, December 2001, pp
    677-86

 

Number of funded and non funded projects along with year completed/ongoing:
PROJECT  WORK
1.Coinvestigator in ICMR sponsored project : Monitoring of Drug Abuse. 1988-1992.

2.Participant in Field Trial of the Multiaxial Presentation of ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural disorders.
 

3.Chief Investigator in funded project entitled `Personality Assessment and Coping Behaviour in patients of Somatoform
   and Dissociative Disorders’. 1994-95.

4.Involved in making of vignettes for primary health care doctors for training in drug abuse identification and management.

5. Co-investigator in non funded project on `Visual and Brainstem Auditory Evoked responses in opioid dependence’.

6. Participant in ICMR, funded project on `Tobacco Cessation Clinics’ under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
 

7. Involved as Editor in development of a multiauthored manual on substance abuse disorders for general physicians.
 

8. A phase – 2 clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ESD-27 in patients of chronic primary insomnia.
    Interdepartmental project with Dept. of Neurology (Neurophysiology Section)
 

9. On going project ‘Workplace intervention for management of alcohol and drug abuse’
 

10.Thesis supervised as MD/PhD

a)      As Chief Guide:      Only Nos.        8

b)      As Co guide:          Only Nos.        7
 

11. Significant events:

1. Member Organizing Committee : Second Annual Conference of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
    November 20-21, 1993. 
 

2. Organizing Committee – Scientific programme co-ordinator SABSMUT (Social and Behavioural Sciences in Medical
    Undergraduate Training). November 26-27, 1994. 
 

3. Co-ordinator – National Workshop on Drug Abuse Training for nurses.  October 10-14, 1995. 
 

4. Co-ordinator – Workshop for B.Sc. IIIrd year students of Jamia Hamdard University : Role of Nurse in Substance Abuse
    Management.

5. Co-ordinator : Nurses training programme in Substance Abuse Management 22-07-97 to 06-08-97

6. Co-ordinator: Training Program for Nurses in the field of Substance abuses September 14-25, 1999  New Delhi.

7. Executive Committee Member : XVII Congress of World Association of Social Psychiatry. October 27-31, 2001. Agra, India.

8. Executive committee Member: Annual North Zone Psychiatric Conference. IHBAS, Delhi, October 15-16, 2000.

9. Co-ordinator : Public awareness program in the field of mental health and addiction for school teachers, B.P. Koirala
    Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
                        a) December 29-30, 2000
                        b) January 26-27, 2001

10. Convenor : Streamlining of Opium Registry in India. USO House, New Delhi. August 31, 2004 

11.Convenor : Strengthening of National Drug Deaddiction Programme, NDDTC, Ghaziabad, October 28,2004

12.Convenor : Management of Alcohol abuse in Primary Health Care Setting, NDDTC, Ghaziabad, May 17-18,2005. 
 

13.Was appointed as selection committee member for post graduate courses in the central institute of psychiatry, 2005-
     2006
 

14. Was appointed as external examiner BP koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal; July 27-30, 2005.
 

15. Gave public symposium on ‘Assessment of alcohol abuse’ in Cental Water Commission, New Delhi, November 5 2005.
 

16. Gave invited talk on “Pharmacological management of alcohol abuse” Bombay Psychiatric Society, December 4, 2005.
 

17. Gave public symposium on ‘Assessment of alcohol abuse’ in NTPC, Dadri, January 3, 2006.