Dr.Sanjana Sridharan

Seasoned healthcare executive with over 15 years of experience in senior leadership roles in the United Kingdom and Canada. Skilled in leading teams and overseeing departments to ensure seamless operations and goal attainment. Proficient in strategic planning and process improvement to drive efficiency within organizations. Demonstrated history of effective leadership and successful team management throughout career.

• Collaborated with team of Directors for Global Masters in Clinical Psychiatry in the development of a first time online program.
• Received the prestigious Aiden Stokes Award for mentorship 2024.
• Received Leadership award for Acute care 2021.
• Experience of over 20 years of training and mentoring residents and medical students.
• Experience of training and teaching fellowship and membership exams students in the UK and Canada for over 15 years.

• Royal College of Psychiatrists UK
• CPSNS-Nova Scotia
• Doctors Nova Scotia
• CMPA

016437, CPSNS, Nova Scotia, Canada, Defined Licence

Inpatient Staff Psychiatrist-SSU unit, ABJL CZ, 2017 - Present

Acute Care Section Head for Emergency Psychiatry and Consultation Services CZ of NS, Canada

• Staff Psychiatrist General and Adolescent-Psychiatrist, Aberdeen Hospital, 03/2016 - 07/2017
• Staff Psychiatrist, St. Martha’s Regional Hospital, Antigonish, NS, 03/2014 - 2016
• Substantive Consultant - General Adult Psychiatry, UK, 12/2006 - 03/2014
• Medical Manager-Medical Lead for inpatient services, Coventry & Warwickshire Trust UK, 2007 - 2014

• Consultant and Medical Manager Acute Care, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 12/2006 - 03/2014
• Consultant, General Adult Psychiatrist, Coventry, UK, 04/2006 - 12/2006
• Specialist Registrar, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 10/2005 - 04/2006
• Specialist Registrar, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 10/2004 - 10/2005
• Specialist Registrar, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 08/2003 - 10/2004
• Associate Specialist, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 01/2002 - 08/2003
• Speciality Doctor, The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 02/2001 - 01/2002
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), The Caludon Centre, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 08/2000 - 02/2001
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Avenue Clinic, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 02/2000 - 08/2000
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Child&Adolescent Clinic, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 08/1999 - 02/2000
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Reaside Clinic, Medium Secure Unit, Birmingham, 02/1999 - 08/1999
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Avenue Clinic, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 08/1998 - 02/1999
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Avenue Clinic, Cov&Wark Partnership Trust, 02/1998 - 08/1998
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Birmingham East and North Mental Health Trust, 08/1997 - 02/1998
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Birmingham East and North Mental Health Trust, 07/1997 - 08/1997
• Senior House Officer (Junior Resident), Birmingham East and North Mental Health Trust, 05/1997 - 07/1997

Section Head for Acute Care in the CZ in NS, Canada

Deputy Director for Acute Care in CZ NS, Canada.

Medical lead physician for inpatient services for Coventry and Warwickshire NHS trust, UK.

• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Canadian
• Marital Status: Married

• Clinical Leadership Award, 2022
• NHS Clinical Excellence Awards
• 2010
• 2012
• Distinction in final year Medical School for Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1994

• Reducing wait times and avoiding unnecessary use of high-cost mental health services through a Rapid Access and Stabilization Program: protocol for a program evaluation study, 02/2024, BMC Health Services Research
• Augmenting Mental Health Support for Patients Accessing Different Degrees of Formal Psychiatric Care through a Supportive Text Messaging Program: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial, 02/2023, Research Gate
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation With and Without Text4Support for the Treatment of Resistant Depression: Protocol for a Patient-Centered Multicentre Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial, 12/2023, JMIR
• Preventing Chronic disease in people with mental health problems: The Health Passport approach, Anderson, Naomi, Sridharan, Sanjana, Megson, Matthew, Evans, A, Vallance, J, Singh, Swaran P, Shukla, R, Patel, Vinod, 2012, The Psychiatrist
• Understanding the Obstacles to Evidence Based Practice in Psychiatry: Qualitative Study of Staff Perceptions, Jainer, Ashok Kumar, Teelukdharry, Sadira Ramlakhan Singh, Onalaja, Demi, Sridharan, Sanjana, Kaler, Rupinder jit, Sreekanth, Radha, Bedi, Gunjan, 09/2011, International Medical Journal
• Prevalence of Substance Misuse in Psychotic In-patients, N. Soni, Asok Kumar Jainer, Sanjana Sridharan, S Murthy, T R H Kumar, Shakila Sickander, Radha Srikanth, Suresh Bhushan, 06/2005, International Medical Journal
• New Perspectives in the treatment of Bipolar Affective Disorder, Jainer AK, King M, Sridharan S, Raayasa S, 2005, International Medical Journal
• Use of ECT in a Mental Health Unit in England, Sridharan S, Javed A, 02/2003, Journal of Pakistan Psychiatric Society

• Speciality Doctor, 1 year, Coventry & Warwickshire Rotational Scheme
• Associate Specialist in Transcultural Psychiatry, 1 year 8 months, Coventry & Warwickshire Rotational Scheme
• Specialist Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry, 3 years, Coventry & Warwickshire Rotational Scheme
• Substantive Consultant, 2006 - 03/2014, UK
• Staff Psychiatrist, 03/2014 - 07/2017, Antigonish and New Glasgow

• Reducing wait times and avoiding unnecessary use of high-cost mental health services through a Rapid Access and Stabilization Program: protocol for a program evaluation study, Medard K. Adu, Raquel da Luz Dias, Gloria Obuobi-Donkor, Ngozi Ezeanozie, Sanjana Sridharan, Jason Morrison, Patryk Simon, Bryanne Taylor, Monica MacKinnon, Shiloh Gossen, Mahmoud Awara, Cindy Feng, Lori Wozney, Prosper Koto, Jordan Warford, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong, BMC Health Services Research
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation With and Without Text4Support for the Treatment of Resistant Depression: Protocol for a Patient-Centered Multicenter Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial, Medard Kofi Adu, Raquel da Luz Dias, Belinda Agyapong, Ejemai Eboreime, Adegboyega O Sapara, Mobolaji Lawal, Corina Chew, Karen Diamond Frost, Daniel Li, Michael Flynn, Sameh Hassan, Ahmed Saleh, Sanjana Sridharan, Matt White, Vincent IO Agyapong
• Preventing chronic diseases in people with mental health problems: The HEALTH Passport approach, Anderson, N., Sridharan, S., Evans, A., Vallance, J., Megson, M., Gopinath, A., Patel, V., 15th World Congress of Psychiatry, Argentina, 20/09/2011, oral communication, 24th ECNP Congress, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Paris, 06/09/2011, poster presentation, first prize, 2011 International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, 30/06/2011, poster presentation, Warwick Undergraduate Medical Research Conference, University of Warwick, 27/11/2010, oral presentation