He joined the Department of Psychiatry in September 2010 and was cross appointed to Medicine in June 2011. He completed his undergraduate training in Medicine (MBBS) in 1995, and post graduate training (MD) in Clinical Pharmacology in 1999 at Delhi University in New Delhi, India, followed by an MRCPsych with a subspecialization in Geriatric Psychiatry in 2010 at Northern Deanery in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.