Dr. Mani Chandran
Sr. Consultant Geriatric Psychiatrist
Department of Geriatric and Long-Term Care, HMC
Dr. Chandran jointed Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar in December 2016 as Senior Consultant Geriatric Psychiatrist at the Department of Geriatrics and Long-Term Care. His initial role incorporated attending to the needs of older adult patients with mental health needs. Bringing his extensive experience and passion to the role, Dr. Chandran helped to advance the Memory Clinic in Rumailah Hospital and supported the expansion of this clinic into primary care centers.
After Graduating from Government Medical College Kozhikode, Kerala India in 1993, Dr Chandran has been working in the field of Psychiatry in India, the UK and Qatar. He has over 26 years of clinical experience in Psychiatry, and for 17 years he worked in senior positions in Geriatric Psychiatry.
Prior to joining HMC, he served for eight years as a substantive full time NHS Geriatric Consultant Psychiatrist in Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust, UK. During his specialization training he gained additional experience in Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Mental Health NHS Trust in the UK.
Dr. Chandran’s wide remit Includes supporting the department’s Global Dementia Observatory Work and he is a leading member of the Qatar Dementia Working Group. His core areas of interest, alongside geriatric psychiatry, include teaching, dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Delirium, and geriatric mental and physical syndromes and care. Dr. Chandran has helped drive the annual Alzheimer’s Month Awareness campaign in Qatar and was instrumental in expanding the channels of communication to include innovative ways to reach the population.
A staunch supporter of targeted professional education, Dr. Chandran has promoted and contributed to the teaching of hundreds of primary healthcare nursing staff and graduate physicians. In addition, he fully supports quality improvement programs and projects designed to deliver better care to patients; including such project as the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP); as well as improving outpatient care waiting times during the pandemic.
Recognizing that telemedicine support was ideally suited to safeguard elderly patients, along with his Dept Chair and Team, he led work on early implementation of Virtual Consultation Clinical Services and was an early adopter of the Virtual Consultation tool, which was first introduced in the Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Department at HMC.
