Amit is a senior Consultant Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist, a mindful transformational leader, writer/poet, multi-award-winning indie film-director, global educator/speaker, and Well-Being Expert based in London.

His life’s journey is guided by a sense of a heightened purpose of service, crossing borders and forming bridges-east and west, mystery and mastery.

He is one of UK's national Well Being Champions and Co- Lead of London Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Amit seeks to serve and be an effective agent for building an inclusive community of conscious individuals through self-discovery, growth and celebration. He appreciates the joy of relating, energising and empowering others and comes alive in infinite encounters of shared spaces of mutual learning with humility, compassion and optimism.

Born in Kolkata (India), Amit draws inspiration, wisdom and courage from diverse traditions and interdisciplinary dialogues with experts in diverse fields.

His life’s work illuminates a broad range of areas -neuropsychiatry and human development, mindful leadership, holistic well-being and resilience, personal mastery, integrative lifestyle medicine, mental health awareness & prevention, cultural diversity and inclusion, scientific research, mind-body-spirit integral work, coaching & mentoring, health humanities, based on his own insights, learning and experiences.

His clinical work, teaching and leadership practice integrates modern neuroscience, emotional intelligence, arts and spiritual wisdom designing healing spaces, wellness and transformative journeys of individuals, teams and organisations.

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His medical career spans through 25 years of working in NHS in UK but he pursued lifelong learning, teaching and leading, looking through multicultural and multidimensional lenses and through lived experience with patients and life’s challenges.

Amit is employed as the Lead Clinician and Consultant in a Specialist Inpatient Adolescent Unit in North London; he is also the Medical CAMHS Lead in Barnet and Crisis Pathway Lead of the division. His team has been awarded as the Best team of the year 2021.

He was a Hon Senior Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London and has been involved in training a range of students, senior trainees and other professional disciplines, including from Cambridge, Oxford and UCL University.

He was also involved in Research in Cognitive Neuro-psychopharmacology at prestigious Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley, King’s college, London.

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He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry.

He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Amit received several awards in his career, notably London Mayor's award for Leadership (King's fund Millennium Commission), Blaker Fund award (Scientific & Medical Network), Spirituality SIG (RCPsych 2022) Essay Prize, Cariss Evans award (finalist) for creativity and innovation in mental health etc.

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He was intimately involved in strategic and operational management, policy development and in CAMHS Transformation Projects with particular focus on development of Home Treatment team, Day Hospital, and other Crisis Pathway Services.

Amit strives to create and promote Compassionate Healthcare, delivered with Intelligent Kindness- towards a high quality, family oriented, integrated and evidence-based practices. He has also tirelessly worked towards an inclusive workforce, contributing to the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights principles.

He has also served as Board members in several International organisations and Charities, eg Scientific & Medical Network(scimednet.org), Child in Need Institute-UK and he is a professional affiliate of Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) creating interdisciplinary dialogues beyond materialistic and reductionist paradigms.

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Amit is a much-loved inspirational speaker/ teacher (TED X lecture in 2020 in IIT KGP) working with individuals and groups, ranging from adolescents/parents and adults to corporate executives, educators, healthcare teams and professionals.

He has led workshops with reputed and global organisations like Greenpeace International, Erasmus European Project, Hawkwood College and several Universities - University of Michigan, Brunel University, University of Calcutta, Viswabharati University, University of Salamanca and others.

He has lectured in many international conferences, particularly on Well-Being and Personal Mastery, conducted retreats and workshops worldwide, enhancing whole-person learning and fostering transformation and wellness.

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Amit deeply passionate about and fully committed to lifelong learning and growth and to maintain and promote seamless and continuous professional and personal development for himself and others.

He has travelled extensively and learnt from a range of teachers from a variety of background, notably, Brother David Stendal Rast, Prof. Ravi Ravindra as well as through associations of renowned scientists like Prof Marilyn Monk, Prof Amit Goswami, mathematicians like Prof Barnard Carr, actors like Soumitra Chatterjee, philosophers like Prof John Clarke, philanthropists like Dr Samir Chowdhury and other individuals of many disciplines for transformative learning.

He has regularly attended workshops and retreats at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California and at other global centres of excellence like Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre, Hawkwood Centre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre and so on.

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Apart from receiving many international film awards for his Debut Feature film Bridge, his documentary Film WWW- Working with Worries (2001) has helped creating awareness on Autism nationwide in UK.

He created and directed Maya, a musical, premiered at Bloomsbury Theatre in 2003, which became part of Royal College of Psychiatrists ' Changing Mind' anti stigma Campaign.

His play ‘Homapakhi’ has run for several years in India, raising consciousness in public on mental health issues.

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