About the author

Nisha Dogra, BM, DCH, MRCPsych, MA, PhD

Dr Nisha DograClinical Senior Lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Leicester.

 

Dr Dogra was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy in 2005-2006. She is involved in a wide variety of teaching and training events in undergraduate and postgraduate education and has acted as advisor for a course on human diversity at the Medical University of Southern Africa.

 

Dr Dogra has also supported the development of learning and teaching in child mental health and teaching skills at the University of Varanasi in India and is due to undertake a similar project at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Her research interests include cultural diversity training for medical students and health care professionals, effective methods of training, evaluation of training and young people’s perceptions of mental health services. Her clinical areas of interest include adolescents and the use of systemic practice beyond family therapy.

 

E-mail: nd13@leicester.ac.uk

 

Declaration of interests: None

 
 

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