By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh 05th
October:- Dr
Savita Malhotra, former Dean and Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry
at PGI, has been awarded International Contribution Award of the IACAPAP(International
Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions) for 2016
at its meeting held in Calgary, Canada. The award is "in recognition
of exemplary leadership on behalf of children and youth throughout South East
Asia through teaching, advocacy, scholarly research and contributions to
literature". IACAPAP is a confederation of national and regional
associations and societies of child and adolescent psychiatry throughout the
world.
This is an ultimate recognition
for the work in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry by Dr Savita
Malhotra in PGI and in India and Asia for more than 35 years. She has
worked to establish excellent child psychiatry services and training in PGI; to
develop professional identity and recognition of the discipline of child
psychiatry in India; initiating the start of DM training in Child and
Adolescent psychiatry in India; starting the Indian Association for Child and
Adolescent Mental Health; running School Mental Health Programme in Chandigarh;
working for Indian Council for Child Welfare UT Chandigarh.
She was honored by the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry last year for her global leadership
in the field.
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