Gujarat Medical Education & Research Society, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Gujarat

College Number

0265-2398008

Email Address

deanmcgv@gmail.com
dean-gmers-vadodara@gujarat.gov.in

Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Infrastructure

Department Office and Office space for faculties: 2nd floor Hospital building, OPD NO. 204
Facility Details
OPD Rooms 09
Demonstration Room 01
Wards 02 (Male and Female)

Services provided

Speciality Clinics

Clinic Weekday/s Timings Clinic In-charge
Deaddiction Monday 4 to 5 PM Dr. Sandip Shah
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic Tuesday Dr. Nimisha Desai
Psycho Motor Clinic Wednesday Dr. Saurabh Shah
Neuro-Psychiatry Elderly Clinic / Geriatric Mental Health / Geriatric Psychiatry Thursday Dr. Nimisha Desai
Clinic for Senile Disorder Thursday -
Memory Clinic Thursday Dr. Saurabh Shah
Marital and Psychosexual Clinic Friday Dr. Sandip Shah
Community Psychiatry: Minds Foundation Community Outreach Program,
School Mental Health Program,
Community Mental Health Workers Program
Once in 2 weeks On special days -

PG seats

Faculties

Sr. No. Name Current Designation Qualification Date of Joining Date of Leaving
1 Dr. Sandip Shah Professor and Head MD Psychiatry 16.01.2015 -
2 Dr. Nimisha Desai Professor MD Psychiatry 28.10.2024 -
3 Dr. Saurabh Shah Associate Professor MD Psychiatry 09.04.2025 -

Posters presented in conference(last 5 years)

Sr. No. Year Topic Author Presented
1 2021 Study of Insomnia in Hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care hospital of Central Gujarat Drashti Shah WASP Asia – Pacific Hybrid Congress
2 2021 Study of Depression, Anxiety and Stress among family members of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care hospital of Central Gujarat Malika Sanspara WASP Asia – Pacific Hybrid Congress
3 2022 Faith Healing Practices Adopted by Psychiatric Patients in Western Gujarat Preet Patel IPS-GSB 3rd Midterm Conference
4 2022 A Study of Support Group Intervention for Patients with Alcohol Dependence in Tertiary Care Hospital – An Early Experience Disha Patel IPS-GSB 4th Midterm Conference
5 2022 Survey Based Assessment of Managerial Level Industrial Workers Mental Health Sahil Patel IPS-GSB 4th Midterm Conference
6 2022 Empowering Medical Students for Dealing with Emotions in Doctor–Patient Communication as a Part of AETCOM Teaching Prashant Vaghela IPS-GSB 51st Annual Conference
7 2022 Does Communication Enhance Learning of Students? Nimisha Desai St. Johns Medical College
8 2022 Assessment of Tobacco Use Patterns in Rural Population of Central Gujarat Krishna Darji IPS-GSB 4th Midterm Conference
9 2024 Post Training Assessment of Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders (MNS) Trainees Drashti Shah IPS-GSB 5th Midterm Conference
10 2024 A Case Report on Niemann Pick Type C Disease: A Rare Neuropsychiatric Disease Darshil Mehta IPS-GSB 53rd Annual Conference
11 2024 Evaluating Mental Health Training Program in MPHW, CHO and Homeopathy Students Jash Pansuriya IPS-GSB 53rd Annual Conference
12 2024 Evaluating Mental Health Training Program in Homeopathy Students Ankit Patel IPS-GSB 53rd Annual Conference
13 2025 Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Presenting as NREM Sleep Arousal Disorder Hima Monani IPS-GSB 6th Midterm Conference
14 2025 Effectiveness of Structured Group Therapy on Readiness for Change and Alexithymia in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: An Interventional Study Bharvi Ganvit ACIPS 55th West Zonal Branch
15 2025 Phantosmia in Traumatic Brain Injury with Depressive Symptoms Responding to Carbamazepine - A Case Report Dhwani Upadhyay ACIPS 55th West Zonal Branch
16 2025 Motivational Changes Post Tobacco Cessation Center Visit: A Telephonic Follow-up Study Nilesh Chaudhary IPS-GSB 54th Annual Conference

Paper Presentation in conference (last 5 years)

Year Topic Author Presented at
2021 Analysis of change in Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about COVID-19 following awareness session in rural population of Western India Drashti Manishbhai Shah Industrial Psychiatry Journal
2021 Prospective community based pilot study to assess effectiveness of health education behavioural intervention and pharmacotherapy for tobacco deaddiction among rural population of central Gujarat Malika Mahendrabhai Sanspara IASP (Online)
2022 Study of structural tobacco cessation program delivered at door step in a rural community of central Gujarat ("Gutkha Mukt Gaam") Drashti Manishbhai Shah 53rd Annual Conference WZB
2022 Lived Experiences of Bereaved Family Members during COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital with special reference to imposed restrictive COVID Guidelines - A Qualitative Study Preet Shashikant Patel IPS-GSB 50th Annual Conference
2023 A retrospective study of pattern of abnormal findings in routine screening investigations done of psychiatry inpatients Disha Patel Diamond Jubilee International Conference for Mental Health at PGI
2023 Sexual Knowledge, Attitude, Behaviours, and Sources Influencing Sexuality in Medical Students: A Cross Sectional Study Sahil Patel IPS-GSB 52nd Annual Conference
2023 Suicide in Medical Students – Causes, Intervention and Preventive Strategies – An Exploratory Qualitative Online Survey Prashant Vaghela National Young Psychiatry Conference, Bhopal
2023 A retrospective study of quality and pattern of inpatient psychiatric referrals in a tertiary care teaching hospital Drashti Shah Diamond Jubilee International Conference for Mental Health at PGI
2023 Sexual Knowledge, Attitude, Behaviours, and Sources Influencing Sexuality in Medical Students: A Cross Sectional Study Sahil Patel IPS-GSB 52nd Annual Conference
2024 Prevalence and effectiveness of anger management program in participating medical students – Piloting an interventional study Krishna Darji 33rd IPSWZB Mid Term
2024 Prevalence of hyperhidrosis and its clinical correlation with anxiety, depression, and quality of life among medical students Darshil Mehta IPS-GSB 53rd Annual Conference
2025 Effectiveness of suicide prevention awareness on suicide literacy in nursing students: A cross sectional educational interventional study Dipalee Talaviya ACIPS 55th West Zonal Branch

Publications during the past 5 years

Years Sr. No. Journal Details
2025 1 Dr. Nimisha Desai. A Retrospective Analysis of the Feedback of the West Zonal Virtual Postgraduate Teaching Program; Annals of Indian Psychiatry; year 2025
2 Sahil Patel. A mixed method study of exploring the impact of male alcohol dependence on sexual functioning and marital relationships; Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy; year 2025
3 Drashti Shah. A retrospective study of quality and pattern of psychiatry referrals in a tertiary care teaching hospital; Indian Journal of Mental Health; year 2025
4 Disha patel. A retrospective study of pattern of abnormal findings in routine screening investigations done of psychiatry patients.
5 Open-label prospective, international study assessing efficacy and safety of intramuscular ketamine for suicidal ideation in a tertiary care hospital.
2024 1 Vedant Lalchandani, Khushali Modi, Sandip Shah. Association between gaming habits and insomnia International Journal of scientific research; Volume 13; Issue 1; year 2024; Page 30-33
2 Disha Patel. A retrospective study of pattern of abnormal findings in routine screening investigations done of psychiatry Inpatients; Annals of Indian Psychiatry; year 2024
3 Sahil Patel. Sexual Knowledge, Attitude, behaviours, and Sources Influencing Sexuality in Medical Students: A Cross sectional study. Indian Journal of Psychological medicine; year 2024
4 Prashant Vaghela. Suicide in Medical students – causes, intervention and preventive strategies – an exploratory Qualitative online survey Indian Journal of Psycholosgical medicine; year 2024
5 Drashti Shah. A retrospective study of quality and pattern of Inpatient psychiatric referrals in a Tertiary care teaching hospital. Indian Journal of Mental Health; year 2024
6 Preet Shashikant Patel. Lived Experiences of Bereaved Family members during COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital with special reference to imposed restrictive COVID Guidelines- a qualitative study. Journal of Death and Dying;2024 May;89(1):404-420
2023 1 Drashti Manishbhai Shah. Study of Insomnia in Hospitalized COVID 19 patients in tertiary care hospital of Central Gujarat. Industrial Psychiatry Journal; Volume 3; Issue 3; Page 312; Year 2023
2 Himanshu Chauhan, Sandip Shah, Dipti Joshi. A Comparative study of MMSE and ACE-R Scales in Patients of Dementia referred from specialized neurology clinics in India. Indian Journal of Research; Volume 12; Issue 7; Year 2023; Page 26-28
3 Manickam P, Tarun B, Rizwan S, Rajalakshmi E, Janani S, Kathiresan J, Muthusamy S, Ranjithkumar G, Suresh B, Bal Krishna G, Shah Sandip , Kedar Mehta, Monaliza L, Arun M, AlkaVerma, Rajat V, Saurabh Srivastava, Aishwariya N, Rakesh Agrawal. Factors associated with unexplained sudden deaths among adults aged 18-45 years in India– A multicentric matched case-2023 control study. Indian Journal of Medical Research; Volume 158; Issue 4; year 2023; Page 351-362
4 Sandip Shah, Ayona Sarkar. Does current criminal behaviour have its origin in childhood trauma: A case control study. Indian Journal of Research; Volume 12; Issue 5; Year 2023; Page 50-55
5 Malika Mahendrabhai Sanspara. Study of Depression, Anxiety and stress among family members of hospitalized COVID- 19 patients in a tertiary care hospital of central Gujarat. Indian Journal of Psychiatry; Volume 3; Issue 3; Page 313-314; Year 2023
2021 1 Drashti Manishbhai Shah. Analysis of change in Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about COVID-19 following awareness session in rural population of Western India. Industrial Psychiatry Journal; Volume 30 Suppl Issue 1; Page S35; 2021
2 Pathare Soumitra, Funk Michelle, Bold Natalie Drew, Chauhan Ajay, Kalha Jasmine, Krishnamoorthy Sadhvi, Sapag, Jaime C, Bobbili, Sireesha J, Kawade Rama, Shah Sandeep. Systematic evaluation of the QualityRights programme in public mental health facilities in Gujarat, India. The British Journal of Psychiatry; Volume 218; Issue 4, year 2021; Page 196-203
3 Ahmad Ateeq, Sheikh Saifuddin, Khan Mujtaba Ali, Chaturvedi Alok, Patel Piyush, Patel Ronak, Buch BakulChandrakant, Anand RajendraSomeshwar, Shah TimirkumarChandrakant, Vora,VaishalNareshchandra. Endoxifen: A new, protein kinase C inhibitor to treat acute and mixed mania associated with bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorder Volume 23; Issue 6; Year 2021; Page 595-603
4 Desai Nimisha D, Chavda Paragkumar, Shah Sandeep. Prevalence and predictors of suicide ideation among undergraduate medical students from a medical college of Western India; Medical Journal Armed Forces India; Volume 77; Year 2021; Page S107-S114
5 Tanna Kajal, Shah Sandip, Katariya Lakhan. Study of attitude of patients towards anti-psychotic medications. year 2021

International Collaborations

ICMR projects

ICMR-STS projects

Events

Gujarat South Zone UG Quiz (14 August 2023):
1.Dr. Sandip Shah : 2nd runner up for Best Practices in Health Programmes, Health and Medical Services, Vadodara, Governmentof Gujarat.
2.Dr.Disha Patel : Gold medallist in MD Psychiatry examination Jan. 2025, M.S.University
Dr Sandip Shah GMERS Medical College, Gotri awarded third prize in the patient care and administration category at the first regional GRIP summit

Photo Gallery

Dr Sandip Shah was awarded THIRD PLACE in the PATIENT CARE AND ADMINISTRATION category at the 1st Regional GRIP Summit / Dr. Drashti Shah won Dr. G.K. Vankar Best Paper Award / Dr Disha Patel, Resident Doctor won the Best Poster Award during the 4th Midterm Conference of IPSGSB, 2023 / PG Student Dr. Disha Patel of 2021 batch felicitated with Gold Medal Psychiatry at MSU convocation
From Left to Right:Dr Darshil Mehta;Dr Drashti Shah;Dr Jash Pansuriya;Dr Nilesh Chaudhary;Dr Shakshi Bhatt;Dr Himanshu Rathva;Dr Anu Lapsiwala;Dr Dipalee Talaviya;Dr Kirtika Parmar; Dr Vivek Gurjar / From Left to Right: Above:Dr Preet Patel;Dr Drashti Shah;Dr Malika Sanspara Below: Dr Nimisha Desai;Dr Sandip Shah(HOD);Dr Saurabh Shah / From Left to Right :Dr Sahil Patel;Dr Disha Patel;Dr Sandip Shah(HOD);Dr Prashant Vaghela / IPS GSB midterm conference arranged at GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Gotri, Vadodara: / First Runner up at IPSGSB annual conference(August 2022):
AET-COM module session with roleplay: / TCCInauguration Ceremony:/ Collaboration with MINDS: / GRIP Summit 2024: / Signing of MOU with International MINDS Foundation USA: / MINDS foundation training programme (facilitated 4 days mental health training programme): / World Suicide Prevention Day: / Dr. G.K. VANKAR Best Paper Award Ceremony: State level annual and midterm conference of Indian psychiatry Society Gujarat State Branch: / Dr Saurabh Shah, Associate Professor [ HG] , Hon. State Secretary of IPSGSB [2023-2025] organized a State level annual and midterm conference of Indian Psychiatry Society Gujarat State Branch during his tenure.
53rdAnnual Conference of IPSGSB August 2024:/ Dr. Saurabh Shah being felicitated as Hon State Secretary IPS GSB at the 5th Midterm IPS GSB Conference / Dr Sandip Shah secured First position in West Zone in the event of “REEL MAKING COMPETITION IN SUICIDE PREVENTION AND AWARENESS” / GRIP 2025 Certificate of Merit: / GRIP 2024 Certificate of Merit: / Lakshay programme: