Sailaxmi Gandhi
Mental Health
NIMHANS
India
Biography
Sailaxmi Gandhi is an Additional Professor and Head of the Department of Nursing at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, India. Her areas of interest are psychiatric rehabilitation, school mental health, suicide prevention as well as maternal and infant mental health. She has received several awards and the most recent is by the President of India for Best Nurse Educator on International Nurses Day, 2014. She has 28 years of experience in neuro-psychiatric nursing. She has organized several conferences, workshops, seminars and symposium in this field. She has authored several books, the most recent being a book on activities of daily living for persons with mental illness and their caregivers one on standard operating procedures in neuro-nursing for diagnostic and interventional surgery.
Research Interest
Mental Health
