Dr Siddharth Sarkar

2. Name: Dr Siddharth Sarkar

3. Designation: Additional Professor

4. Qualifications: MD

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6. Field of Interest: Addiction Psychiatry, Medical Education, Consultation Psychiatry

7. Total number of publications till date: 225

8. Details of publications since 2010 onwards (the full citation)- these should be divided into journal  articles (peer reviewed publications) and books/monographs/project reports/ proceedings from workshops (non-peer reviewed publications)

Ten Major Publications are as below:

• Balhara YPS, Sarkar S, Laspal N, Bhargava R, Yadav Z. A randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of GamE- an e-Health intervention to self-manage gaming with an aim to prevent gaming disorder. Asian J Psychiatr. 2022;80:103389.

• Singh VV, Sarkar S, Chadda RK, Mishra AK, Dhawan A. Reasons for leaving treatment among patients with opioid dependence: A 3-month prospective follow-up study. J Opioid Manag. 2022;18(5):455-466.

• Sahu A, Bhati N, Sarkar S. A systematic review and meta-analysis of substance use among medical students in India. Indian J Psychiatry. 2022;64(3):225-239.

• Kathiresan P, Sarkar S. Club Drugs in India: An Analysis of Newspaper Reports. Indian J Psychol Med. 2022;44(3):311-313.

• Kumari A, Sarkar S, Ranjan P, Chopra S, Kaur T, Baitha U, Chakrawarty A, Klanidhi KB. Interventions for workplace violence against health-care professionals: A systematic review. Work. 2022;73(2):415-427.

• Ghosh A, Singh P, Das N, Pandit PM, Das S, Sarkar S. Efficacy of brief intervention for harmful and hazardous alcohol use: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from low middle-income countries. Addiction. 2022;117(3):545-558.

• Quraishi R, Sarkar S, Jain R. Impact of Chronic Alcohol and Opioid Dependence on Biochemical Parameters: A Retrospective Case Control Study from a Tertiary Care Treatment Center in North India. Addict Health. 2021;13(3):148-155.

• Parmar A, Lal R, Sarkar S, Singh Balhara YP. Neurological Soft Signs in Cannabis Use Disorder with or without Psychosis: A Comparative Study from India. J Dual Diagn. 2021;17(4):267-276.

• Gupta S, Bhatia G, Sarkar S, Chatterjee B, Balhara YPS, Dhawan A. Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders and its correlates in patients with opioid dependence: An exploratory study. Indian J Psychiatry. 2020;62(5):501-508.

• Gupta R, Narnoli S, Das N, Sarkar S, Balhara YPS. Patterns and predictors of self-harm in patients with substance-use disorder. Indian J Psychiatry. 2019;61(5):431-438.

Books:

Sagar R, Sarkar S. Drug Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders 1st Edition, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2019.

Chadda S, Kumar V, Sarkar S, editors. Social Psychiatry: Principles and Clinical Perspectives. Jaypee Brothers, New Delhi; 2018

Detailed list available at

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=siddharth+sarkar&sort=date

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=h7j6D4sAAAAJ

9. Presentations made at scientific meetings/ conferences/ workshops:

Key publications

• Siddharth Sarkar, Anamika Sahu. Substance use among medical students in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Short Oral Communication at the 22nd WPA World Congress of Psychiatry held at Bangkok from 3rd to 6th August 2022.

• Siddharth Sarkar, Bichitra Nanda Patra, Snehil Gupta, Vaibhav Patil. Coerced substance use versus mental health care: Is there difference in public opinion? Poster at the 14th World Congress of Bioethics held at Bengaluru from 5th to 7th Dec 2018.

• Siddharth Sarkar. Emerging issues in substance use in India: club drugs - under the carpet, peeping out sporadically. Symposium at the 20th International Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Meeting (ISAM), 2018 held at Busan, South Korea from 3rd to 6th Nov 2018.

10. Investigator/ Co-investigator in funded projects along with year completed/ongoing:

• Principal Investigator of Project “Real world effectiveness of add-on yoga of patients with opioid dependence stabilized on treatment” funded by Department of Science and Technology SATYAM in 2022 with Prof Anju Dhawan as coinvestigator (INR 36 lakh).

• Principal Investigator of the Project “Development and validation of an Indian scale to assess severity of substance related problems” funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) in 2019 with Dr Roshan Bhad, Dr Ashwani Mishra, Dr Naresh Nebhinani, Dr Anirudhha Basu, and Dr Balaji Bharadwaj as co-investigators (INR 42 Lakhs)

• Principal Investigator of the Project “Heart-Rate variability and autonomic parameters for supplementing clinical assessment of opioid withdrawal” funded by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (Intramural Grant) in 2019 with Dr. KP Kochhar as co-investigator (INR 7 Lakhs)

11. Investigator/Co-investigator in non-funded projects along with year and title completed/ongoing

• Co-investigator for DHR funded project “Leveraging digital technology for health-care delivery: A randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of an e-Health intervention to manage gaming disorder” with Dr YPS Balhara as Principal Investigator, Dr Rachna Bhargava and Mandeep Arora as other co-investigators (2020-2022) (INR 3.68 Lakhs).

• Co-investigator for WHOSEARO funded project “Setting up of a telemedicine and online resource hub on mental health and addictive disorders for South East Asia” with Dr YPS Balhara as Principal Investigator, Dr Shailini Singh as co-investigator (2020-2021) (INR 7.2 Lakhs).

• Co-investigator for Chattisgarh Government-funded project “Development of module on prevention of substance use and addiction among students for the teachers from the state of Chattisgarh” with Dr YPS Balhara as Principal Investigator, Dr. Shalini Singh as other co-investigators (2020-2022) (INR 8.08 Lakhs).

• Co-investigator for ICMR funded project “Evaluation of Neurocognitive, Personality, Emotional, and Psychosocial Biomarkers as Candidate Endophenotypes for Opioid Use Disorder & Their Relationship with Polymorphism in Opioid & Dopamine Receptor Genes: Implications for Prevention & Treatment” with Dr Prabhu Dayal as Principal Investigator, and Dr Rizwana Quraishi as Co-Investigator

12. Thesis supervised for MD/ DM/PhD

- as guide - 2

-as co-guide - 10

13. Awards and Honours:

Sarada Menon Gold Medal for DNB, Psychiatry

Young Psychiatrist Award of Indian Psychiatric Society 2016

Bhagwat Award of Indian Psychiatric Society 2015

Balint Award of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry 2017

NIDA Young Investigator Awardee for ISAM 2022

14. Any other relevant information:

Deputy Editor of Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry

Assistant Editor of Indian Journal of Psychiatry