Head of Department:
Dr. M. Nasar Sayeed Khan
Associate Professor & Head of Department of Psychiatry
Contact No. 042-9203402-22, Ext. 3106
Mobile:0300-8440242
E-mail: nasarsayeed@yahoo.com

Faculty Members:

1. Dr. Sumira Q. Bokhari
Assistant Professor
2. Dr. Shahid H. Waris
APMO
3. Dr. Parveen Ilyas
SWMO/Registrar
4. Dr. Ayesha Rasheed
FCPS Trainee
5. Dr. Ismail Tariq
Medical Officer
6. Dr. Nadeem Akhtar
Medical Officer
7. Dr. Qamber Bokhari
Medical Officer
8. Dr. Shaheen Qamer
SWMO
9. Dr. Jaan Alam
PG Trainee
10. Dr. Usman Amin Hotiana
PG Trainee
11. Dr. Muntazir
PG Trainee
12. Dr. Hassan Waqar
PG Trainee
13. Dr. Imran Habib
PG Trainee
14. Dr. Sara Hanif
PG Trainee
15. Dr. Tariq
PG Trainee
16. Dr. Amina Nasar
PG Trainee
17. Dr. Humaira
House Officer
18. Dr. Ali Anjum
House Officer
19. Dr. Nabeel Ashraf
House Officer
20. Miss Irum Bokhari
Senior Clinical Psychologist
21. Miss Nelofer Afaq
Clinical Psychologist
22. Miss Frazia Sharif
Clinical Psychologist
23. Mrs. Ayesha Chaudhary
Clinical Psychologist
24. Miss Saba Akram
Clinical Psychologist
25. Miss Aqsa Rafiq
Medical Social Officer
26. Miss Momina Nayyer
Trainee Psychologist
27. Miss Nazia
Trainee Psychologist
28. Miss Sidra Asghar
Trainee Psychologist
29. Miss Nadia Kauser
Trainee Psychologist

Aims of Faculty:
The aims of the faculty are:
> Encourage the medical students to join the field of psychiatry.
> Fulfill the unmet needs of the psychiatric care.
> Reduce stigma against the patients with psychiatric illness, their care givers and families as well as against the professionals belonging to the psychiatric profession.
> Protect the legal and human rights of patients with mental illness.
> Promote good medical / psychiatric practice.
> Formulation of strategies to ensure provision and promotion of appropriate psychiatric services in the Hospital and community education and incorporation of the local administrative authorities, Volunteers and NGOs.
> Implementation of mental health act to protect the rights of the patients and psychiatric health professionals.
> Increase the number of psychiatrists after teaching and training postgraduate trainees.
> Continuing medical educaion programs to upgrade the knowledge of the health professionals with the recent advances.
> Continuing research to improve the quality care of the psychiatric patients.
Role In Hospital/ SIMS:
To achieve the above mentioned aims we are
> Looking after in/out patients ensuring good psychiatric practice by using multidisciplinary approach.
> Devising the promotional strategies of mental health issues and their rectification.
> Teaching and training the undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainees in psychiatry.
> Keeping liaison with other medical / surgical departments of this Hospital to provide appropriate psychiatric care.
> Watching the interests of the Hospital without comprising the quality care of the patients.
Recent Research:
Currently the following research projects are in progress.
> In collaboration with the DMC collecting data for evaluating pstchiatric morbidity in diabetic patients presening to DMC.
> Validating a psychiatric instrument to screen the patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder in our culture.
> Collecting the data to evaluate he frequency of psychiatric morbidities of patients admitted in the department of psychiatry of this Hospital.
> Collecting data of a research project to assess the perception of young psychiatric patients about the attitude of their parents.
> Similarly in another study collecting data to assess the perception of old aged psychiatric patients about attitude of their children.
Following are the dissertation projects of our FCPS-II trainees:
> Quality of life of patients suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
> Frequency of depression in children presenting to child psychiatric OPD.
> Prevalence of history of sexual abuse in patients presenting with conversion disorder.
> Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity during all the three trimesters of pregnant women.

Lectures:

1. Achieving Emotional Balance in a Chaotic World

2. Biological Aspects of Personality

3. Communication skills final for students

4. CULTURE MATTERS

5. Ethics

6. Introduction

7. Learning

8. Memory

9. Mental Health

10. Motivation Defined

11. Personality

12. Stress Management

13. Integrative Approaches to Pain Management

14. PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH

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