SOCIAL SANCHAR WITH DR. VIHANG N.VAHIA, Psychiatrist Mumbai, International Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatrist Association Consultant Psychiatrist: Breach Candy and Lilavati Hospitals

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January 19,2021 @ 6.30pm - 7.30pm

MIND – The Main Switch

V Citizens Action Network (VCAN) welcomed the first year of this decade with a Social Sanchar on a critically important topic, with Dr. Vihang Vahia, Psychiatrist, International Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, and Consultant Psychiatrist: Breach Candy and Lilavati Hospitals, on 19th January 2021 to destigmatise issues related to Mental Health and talk about “MIND-The Main Switch”

The session which was a fully digital Social Sanchar, was broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube, and was joined by viewers across the city and the globe.

Smt. Indrani Malkani, Chairman & Managing Trustee of VCAN, started the session by greeting all viewers and warmly welcoming Dr. Vihang Vahia. She specially thanked the Student Council, the NSS Students and all the Students of VCAN’s College Partner Jai Hind College and all the other *Colleges who have associated with VCAN.

She thanked VCAN’s Implementing Partner Citizens Association for Child Rights (CACR) and conveyed her appreciative thanks towards Team Teknowlegion for powering the fully digital Social Sanchars and for keeping VCAN’s Web Portal going, VCAN’s social media consultant Shri. Sumit Lulla, all viewers, colleagues and networking partners and friends in the media.

To see the list of *colleges, Click here

Smt. Malkani then invited her fellow trustee Shri. V. Ranganathan, a former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai, and who has also led the State of Maharashtra as the Chief Secretary, to introduce Guest Speaker Dr. Vihang Vahia.

Brief profile of Dr. Vihang N. Vahia

Dr. Vihang N. Vahia 
Psychiatrist
International Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

• Consultant Psychiatrist: Breach Candy and Lilavati Hospitals Mumbai
• Member, DSM 5 Task Force, IPS
  (Indian Psychiatric Society)
• Member, National Advisory Board, IAPP
  (The Indian Association of Private Psychiatry)
• Former Chairman CME Committee of the IPS & IAPP
• Past Secretary IPS
• International Distinguished Fellow APA
  (American Psychiatric Association)
• Past Member Membership Committee APA
• Several Publications in indexed medical journals, chapters in text books and monograms

With so many unanswered questions, and so many questions we are afraid to ask, there is a reluctance to readily talk about issues related to our mental health and understand how our mind’s circuit boards are wired. This issue affects all of us at some time or the other, and for some it takes over their lives and that of their families.

Dr. Vahia touched upon many of the issues close to home such as anxiety, stress, depression, suicidal feelings, phobias and wove all of them together in the context of the fatigue of COVID.
His impactful advice to the viewers and his replies to the multitude of questions, would best be heard in his own words. Please watch Dr. Vihang Vahia’s Full Session Click here

Dr. Vahia’s presentation and Q&A starts at 11:04 minutes Click here

The interactive session with Dr. Vahia was remarkable, with his style of explaining the topic so easy to understand and relate to that it kept all viewers riveted.

At the end of the session, on behalf of the Trustees of VCAN Smt. Malkani presented an online memento of appreciation to Dr Vahia. She then thanked Dr. Vahia and the viewers for joining the session and ended the digital Social Sanchar.

To view the video of the session, click here

To view the press coverage by the Mid-Day Mumbai, click here

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