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Praveen Khairkar, MD underwent his basic and higher specialist (Junior and Senior Residency) training in Psychiatry from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He obtained his master’s degree in Medical Biostatistics and Clinical Research from Punjab University with merit. Thereafter he joined as Assistant Professor in June 2006 at DMIMS, Wardha, nationally accredited ‘A grade’ deemed university and set up the psychiatric department independently. He became the youngest fellow of Indian Psychiatric Society, Postgraduate guide and university recognized associate professor in country in 2010. He has published more than 30 articles mostly in American, European, Canadian journals in last five years and serves as reviewer in three prestigious European Journals in the field of neurology and neuroscience (Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience in Rural Practice, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.) and on editorial board of Journal of MGIMS. He has presented 27 scientific papers national and International conferences and called as invited speaker in 11 International/World conferences of psychiatry, neuroscience and neurology held worldwide so far. Some of them included Indo-US Neuroscience Conference, World Neuro-Talk, World Neuroscience, WPA, SOPHIE, WSEAS and OMICS conferences. He has worked in collaboration with ICMR, IPS, WHO, USAIDS, WSEAS, Centre of Neuroscience, California, USA, and NIMHANS Bangalore and had undertaken 12 institutional intramural and extramural collaborative projects so far. He had been invited by National University of Malaysia, Penang Malaysia in March 2010. He was the only Indian in the 10 best scientific paper award acclaimed in 19th European Congress of Psychiatry held in Vienna, Austria in March 2011. He restarted the MSc and Diploma in Family Therapy and Counselling Course affiliated under IGNOU Nagpur regional centre. He served as program in-charge under whom about 15 private medical practioners and nurses are being trained from 2012 onwards. He was an invited guest faculty to speak on “utility and validity of sampling methods in biomedical and bioengineering sciences” at International conference of “Biostatistics and Biometrics” held at Omaha, Nebraska, USA, March 5th to 7th 2012 for which he was bestowed with the Travel/ Fellowship Grant Award from UGC, India in 2013. He received his non-invasive brain stimulation intensive training for various neuropsychiatric disorders from Professor Alvaro Pascule Leone, Director of Berenson-Allen Centre at Beth Israel Deaconesses Medical Centre affiliated to Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 2012-13. He has been selected as recognized professor from MUHS, Nashik in February, 2014. He loves teaching and his area of research is Neuropsychiatry, Adult Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and Neurobiology. In all these years he had handled administrative responsibilities like secretary of college council (HODs), Secretary of Academy of Medical Sciences (2014-15), head of department of psychiatry and expert member in Institutional ethical committee at MGIMS, Sevagram.

He has been one of the Director/Co-founders of Brain and Tech Education Foundation, India working for changing the structural bottlenecks in Indian Society and Creating Unemployment Resiliency Program.