Assoc/Prof Mohan Isaac
Associate Professor
Fremantle Hospital (Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, School of)
- Contact details
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Research profile and publications