Dr Rakesh Kumar Chaddha is the Head of Department, Psychiatry, at Amrita Hospital. He specialises in general adult psychiatry, consultation liaison psychiatry (psychosomatics), addiction psychiatry, psychiatric rehabilitation and psychotherapy. He has a long experience of treating mental illnesses like schizophrenia, mood disorders, depression, anxiety disorders like panic and phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, personality disorders. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK, Distinguished International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Honorary Fellow, World Association of Social Psychiatry, Honorary Member, World Psychiatric Association and Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences of India.