Parashar Ramanuj MBBS, MRCPsych

Parashar Ramanuj is a Consultant in the Psychiatry of Musculoskeletal Disease at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital where he works principally with people who have suffered life-changing spinal cord injuries and also people with chronic pain conditions. He has degrees in Clinical Neuroscience and Clinical Medicine from King’s College London. He completed his psychiatric training in Sussex and at St Thomas’ and Maudsley Hospitals in London.

He was made National Medical Director’s Fellow at Public Health England in 2012 and was Senior Clinical Attaché to the Mental Health Policy Unit at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2014. He helped the national rollout of an innovative commissioning mechanism to improve the physical health of people with serious mental illness. He is a member of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership where he is currently working on a cross-national collaboration to benchmark mental health systems.

Dr. Ramanuj has a particular interest in how health care systems can provide holistic care to individuals and populations, particularly on how mental health and physical care services can be integrated. He was appointed a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 2015 and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York 2015-2016. Other research and policy interests include encephalitis, spinal cord rehabilitation, health care resource use, and public mental health.