TS Jaisoorya is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India. He completed his MD in Psychiatry and PhD from the NIMHANS and has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) in the UK. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS since 2015.
His areas of specialization include Psychiatric Epidemiology, Public Mental Health and Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the National Mental Health Survey in India which is amongst the largest surveys in mental health. He is also part of the global team validating and implementing the FLII-11. He was the principal investigator/implementer of the first state-level college mental health project in India “Jeevani” in the state of Kerala. He also has ongoing research projects in OCD. He has published over 100 research papers and chapters.
Throughout his career as a clinician and academician, Dr. Jaisoorya has received several notable awards, including the Daniel Cappon Prize (proxime accessit) from Imperial College London, the Royal Society of Medicine’s Mental Health Foundation Essay Prize in 2006, and the Kerala Catholic Bishop Council Award for Meritorious Deaddiction and Public Mental Health Service.