Philip Parikial George MBBS, MMed

Dr. Philip Parikial George is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Addiction Specialist. He is presently an Associate Dean at the Clinical School of the International Medical University and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Hospital Tuanku Jaafar, Seremban. He is also a Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist at Assunta Hospital and Medical Director of ‘The Mind Faculty’, Mont Kiara in Kuala Lumpur. 

He graduated with MB BS in 1988 from Manipal, India, and did his master's in Psychiatry in 1996 at Malaysian National University. He completed a Certificate in Substance Abuse with the University of Melbourne in 2003. He has more than 30 publications in journals and chapters in books. His areas of interest are in the Prevention of Substance Abuse, Managing Stress, and Depression. 

He is a committee member of the Addiction Medicine Association of Malaysia and the Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society as well as Secretary to the Manipal Alumni Association of Malaysia. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, Malaysian Psychiatric Association, and Malaysian Mental Health Association. He was also Co-Chairman of the Organising Committee for the 1st World Congress on Healthy Ageing, 2012, Organising Chairman of the 2014 Global Manipal Alumni Health Sciences Convention, and Organising Chairman for the 8th Malaysian Healthy Ageing Conference (1-2nd April 2016). 

Some of his recent achievements include being awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Australian Capital Territory Mental Health Services for the year 2009; and the Award for Innovation and Quality Assurance from the Australian Capital Territory Mental Health Services for the year 2009. He also has a Certificate of Completion in Mental Health Leadership from the University of Melbourne, in 2003, and a Diploma in Mood Disorders from the Lundbeck Institute, Skodsborg, Denmark, in 2010. He was also part of a Disaster Medical Relief Team in Nepal post-Earthquake in August 2015.