Dr. Sangeetha Sankaranarayanan
Consultant
Psychiatry
MBBS MD (General Medicine) – India MRCPsych – Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom CCT in Adult Psychiatry & Liaison Psychiatry – Certificate of Completion of Training, United Kingdom MBA – United Kingdom
Overview
Dr. Sangeetha Sankaranarayanan is a highly accomplished and internationally trained Consultant Psychiatrist at SIMS Hospital, Chennai, distinguished by her complete psychiatric training from the United Kingdom and her unique dual expertise in both General Medicine and Psychiatry. Holding the prestigious MRCPsych from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, and a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in both Adult Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry from the UK, she is one of Chennai's most comprehensively qualified and internationally credentialed psychiatrists. Her strong medical background with an MD in General Medicine from India enables her to provide a uniquely holistic approach to managing patients with complex comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions – a specialization known as Liaison Psychiatry – making her particularly adept at treating psychiatric manifestations of medical, neurological, and surgical conditions. Additionally holding an MBA from the UK, Dr. Sangeetha brings a rare combination of clinical excellence, academic rigour, and strategic healthcare thinking to her practice. Her psychiatric expertise spans the full breadth of mental health care including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, addiction psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, dementia, trauma, and gender identity consultations. She is proficient in both pharmacological management and evidence-based talking therapies and counselling, delivering compassionate, patient-centered, and culturally sensitive psychiatric care at SIMS Hospital, Chennai.
