CURRICULUM VITAE: SUMMARY
Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade, MD (Psychological Medicine), is a psychiatrist with about 20 years of experience in his field. He is the Additional Professor in the Department of Psychopharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore.

His academic record is chequered by 25 prizes in pre-collegiate education, 4 prizes in pre-professional collegiate education (including the 4th rank in the State of Karnataka), 9 prizes and gold medals in medical college (including the best outgoing student award in the university), and the gold medal for standing first in the postgraduate examinations.

He has received two international awards, five national awards, and one state award in recognition of his research. His primary research interests lie in the field of electroconvulsive therapy; he is a member of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Task Force on ECT, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of ECT. He is also involved in the research and development of herbal psychotropic medicinal substances. He conducts studies on allopathic medications, as well. His investigations are based on animal models as well as clinical trials.

Dr Andrade is a committed educator. He publishes three bimonthly newsletters, Psychiatry Update, Psychiatry Review, and Mens Sana in Corpore Sano. These newsletters have an extensive national circulation among psychiatrists and physicians, and a small international circulation, as well. He also publishes a thrice weekly electronic newsletter, the Synergy Times, which reaches psychiatrists across the world.

He has published 7 books, approximately 25 chapters in various texts, and approximately 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Besides the Journal of ECT, he is on the editorial board of the journal Bipolar Disorders.