Dinesh Bhugra
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Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra CBE is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.[1] He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.[2][3] He has been president of the World Psychiatric Association[4] and the President Elect of the British Medical Association.[5]
Bhugra became chair of the Mental Health Foundation in 2011,[6] and was awarded his CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to psychiatry following three years as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists[7][8] This same year he became the first ever UK-based psychiatrist to be voted president elect of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), he will serve as president beginning in 2014.[4]
He is a well-known commentator on mental health issues. He has contributed to The Guardian,[9][10][11][12] The Daily Telegraph,[13] The Times (UK),[14] the Financial Times,[15] The Observer,[16] The Huffington Post,[17] the BBC News Magazine,[18] The Times of India and The New York Times.[19]
His research interests include topics across social and public health psychiatry: cross-cultural psychiatry, migrant mental health, professionalism in psychiatry, depression, psychosexual medicine, service provision and decision-making.[2][20] He has become an important authority on these issues, having published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 100 editorials and invited papers, 90 book chapters and authored or edited 30 books.[21]