"Dr Rishikesh V Behere is Medical Director and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Manoshanti, Pune, with 20 years of experience. He did his MD in Psychiatry from the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, India. He is a Former Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education and a DBT-Wellcome Trust (UK) India Alliance Research Fellow. He trained in Clinical Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands and in Structural and Functional Neuroimaging at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He provides professional, scientific, evidence-based treatments for depression, anxiety, OCD, stress management, deaddiction, relationship counselling, and memory problems.

As a clinician, he has been closely working on mental health issues related to stress and its effect on the human mind. As a researcher, he firmly believes in 'translational research' where the benefits of the results of research should translate into better care."