Dr Krishnan is the chair of the Old Age Psychiatry faculty

Associate Dean & Regional Delirium Lead Health Education England

Dr Krishnan is also appointed as Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research.

Dr Krishnan has been on the journey of raising delirium awareness since 2014 in his region and globally he contributed to making a social movement using the powers of social media and networking.

He is active in promoting delirium awareness in social media and started the hashtag #icanpreventDELIRIUM. 

His educational video on delirium on YouTube has had over 100K views.

https://youtu.be/BPfZgBmcQB8

Following that success, he has also produced another educational video on Delirium Superimposed Dementia and how to manage.https://youtu.be/2Hg1VP-Enw4

Awards:

He received the inspirational leader of the year award in 2017 from Northeast Leadership Academy.

He was awarded Psychiatric Communicator of the year 2017 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists In 2016 and 2018 his team won the Psychiatry team of the year.

In 2021 he was the shortlisted for the psychiatrist of the year and he won the Innovation Champion award at the Bright ideas in health award ceremony for his remote ECG work.

Media / Articles

Blog on independent age regarding invisible mind

https://www.independentage.org/mentalhealth/invisible-minds-matter

Newspaper article on loneliness

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elderly-loneliness-christmas-support-b1778566.html