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Mohan Isaac

Assoc/Prof Mohan Isaac

Associate Professor
Fremantle Hospital (Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, School of)

Contact details
Address
Fremantle Hospital
The University of Western Australia (M521)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone
+61 8 9431 3474
Fax
+61 8 9336 5505
Email
mohan.isaac@uwa.edu.au

Associate Professor
Community, Culture and Mental Health Unit, Fremantle Hospital

Contact details
Address
Community, Culture and Mental Health Unit, Fremantle Hospital
The University of Western Australia (M521)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone
+61 8 9431 3474
Fax
+61 8 9336 5505
Email
mohan.isaac@uwa.edu.au

Graduate Research Coordinator
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, School of

Contact details
Address
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
The University of Western Australia (M521)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone
+61 8 9431 3474
Fax
+61 8 9336 5505
Email
mohan.isaac@uwa.edu.au
Qualifications
MB BS MD B'lore
Key research
•Mental health services research
•Primary care psychiatry
•Public health aspects of mental disorders
Publications
Books / Monographs
Isaac M K, Chand P K (2005) (Eds) “Selection of antipsychotic: When? What? How? - Experience of Indian clinicians”, Hyderabad, Crescent Therapeutics

Isaac M, Shah N B (2004) “Anxiety and Depression in Clinical Practice” Mumbai, Abbott India Ltd

Gururaj G, Isaac M K (2004) “Suicide Prevention: Information booklets” NIMHANS/EPI/SUI.Prevn/ 2004.

Isaac M, Murthy P and Kewalramani M (2002) “Guidelines for post graduate training in psychiatry in India”, Kolkota, Indian Psychiatric Society

Guruuaj G and Isaac M (2001) “Epidemiology of Suicides in Bangalore” Bangalore, NIMHANS Publications No. 43.

Book Chapters
Isaac MK, Duddu V (2005) “Phenomenology and Mental Status Examination” In Bhugra D, Ranjith G, Patel V (Eds).Handbook of Psychiatry: A South Asian Perspective. New Delhi, Byword Viva Publishers.

Gururaj G, Girish N, Isaac M (2005) “Mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders: strategies towards a systems approach” In National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: Background papers. Burden of Diseases in India. New Delhi, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India

Gururaj G and Isaac M K (2004) “Psychiatric epidemiology in India: Moving beyond numbers”, in Mental Health: An Indian Perspective (ed) Agarwal S P , Directorate General of Health Services, New Delhi, Elsevier.

Journal Articles
Isaac, Mohan K; Chand, Prabhat K(2006) “Dissociative and conversion disorders: defining boundaries”, Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 19(1):61-66.

Janca A, Isaac M, Ventouras J (2005). “Towards better understanding and management of Somatoform disorders”, International Review of Psychiatry, (in press).

Duddu V, Isaac MK, Chaturvedi SK (2005) “Somatization, somatosensory amplification, attribution styles and illness behaviour”, International Review of Psychiatry (in press)

Gururaj G, Isaac MK, Subbakrishna DK and Ranjani R (2004) “Risk factors for completed suicides: A case control study from Bangalore, India”, Injury control and Safety Promotion 11 (3): 193-200.

Manoj PN, John J P, Gandhi A, Kewalramani M, Murthy P, Chaturvedi S K, Isaac M K (2004) “Delusion of test tube pregnancy in a sexually abused girl” Psychopathology 37 (3): 150 – 154.

Duddu V, Isaac MK, Chaturvedi S K (2003) “Alexithymia in somatoform and
depressive disorders”, J. Psychosom. Res 54 (5): 435-438.

Duddu V, Chaturvedi S K, Isaac M K (2003) “ Amplification and attribution styles in somatoform and depressive disorders- A study from Bangalore, India”, Psychopathology, 36 (2): 98-103.

Lee A, Isaac M, Janca A (2002) “Post-traumatic stress disorder and terrorism”, Current opinion in Psychiatry, 15: 633-637

Weiss M G, Isaac M, Parker S R, Chowdhary A N, Raghuram R (2001) “Global, national and local approaches to mental health; examples from India” Tropical Medicine and International Health 6(1), 4-23.

Desai N G, Isaac M (2001) “Mental Health in SouthEast Asia: Reaching out to the Community” Regional Health Forum 5, 24-27.

Gururaj G, Ahsan M N, Isaac M K, Latif M A, Abeyasinghe R, Tantipiwatanskul P (2001) “Suicide prevention: Emerging from darkness” SEA/Ment/118, New Delhi, WHO/SEARO

Invited Presentations
•Invited plenary presentation at 2nd International Mental Health and Cultural Psychiatry Conference held in Sydney from 25 – 27 November 2005 on
“Mental health care in the Global Village: A challenge for International Organizations”

Invited plenary presentation at the WPA co-sponsored International Conference of the South Asian Forum on Mental Health and Psychiatry held in Colombo from 24 – 28 July 2005 on “International Collaboration in Mental Health: Future Strategies, Directions and Plans”
Roles, responsibilities and expertise
Clinical Activities / Hospital / Health Department Roles
•GP Liaison services at Fremantle hospital and health services
•GP Advisory Group, Fremantle hospital and health services
•GP Advisory Group, South Metropolitan Health Services
Teaching
•Problem based learning (PBL) in Psychiatry for 4th year medical students
•Supervision of two post graduate students’ research towards their PhD
Research profile
Research profile and publications
 

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