Valsamma Eapen MBBS, FRCPsych, FRANZCP, PhD

Professor Valsamma Eapen MBBS., FRCPsych., FRANZCP., PhD, Chair of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia and Head of the Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry, South West Sydney (AUCS) . After graduating in Medicine from Kerala, India, she has been pursuing postgraduate training at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India. She continued her training at the University College London Hospital Scheme, Child Psychiatry training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and Institute of Child Health London, UK and PhD at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery Queen Square London.
Prof. Eapen started her academic career at University College London, UK before moving to UAE and then Sydney Australia. As a Child Psychiatrist with special expertise in developmental and childhood mental health disorders, her research interests include neurodevelopmental disorders as well as neurobiological underpinnings of attachment and intergenerational transmission of anxiety. She has a particular interest in early identification and intervention of developmental and child psychiatric disorders and health equity.