Dr Vishal is presently working as a Consultant, Psychiatry, VIMHANS Hospital. He is also a Treasurer, Delhi Psychiatric Society, Assistant Editor, Delhi Psychiatry Journal, and Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist, Arpana Hospital, Karnal. He has gained more than 11 yrs. of clinical experience in Psychiatry at KMC, Manipal (Karnataka), Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), UCMS & GTB Hospital (Delhi) and VIMHANS (Delhi). He is actively involved in conducting basic skills workshops on personality development and parenting. He has given talks on various Newspapers, TV Channels on topics related to psychiatry disorders.

Major Disease Treated:

Mood and Anxiety Disorders including OCD, ADHD, Psychosexual Disorders, Sleep Medicine, Mind-Body Medicine, Mental Health Economics

Accomplishments:

• Worked in various specialty clinics during these 10 years like Psycho-oncology, Child Guidance Clinic, Geriatric clinic, Deaddiction clinic, Psychosexual disorder clinic, Outreach urban and rural camps
• Worked a co-investigator/ sub-investigator in 10 international and 2 national clinical drug trials. Currently Principal Investigator for an International Multi-centre Trial on Schizophrenia
• Have 10 published articles and chapters in journals and academic texts
• Have conducted basic skills workshops on personality development, time management, communication skills and parenting
• Regular contributor to various Newspapers, TV Channels, FM/AIR etc. on topics related to Psychiatric disorders

Professional Membership:

• Indian Psychiatric Society (Fellow)
• Indian Association of Private Psychiatry
• Indian Association of Social Psychiatry (Fellow)
• Delhi Psychiatric Society (Fellow)
• International Society for Bipolar Disorder
• International Health Economists Association

Fellowships/certified courses/ workshops on following subjects:

• World Psychiatry Association (WPA) Clinical Skills training workshop on Child Psychiatry (Fellowship, 2008)
• Asian Federation of Early Career Psychiatrists (Fellowship,2012)
• WPA Young Psychiatrists Program at Prague (2009)
• ADHD
• Child and Adolescent health training workshop at AIIMS
• WPA workshop on Psychotherapy in Routine Clinical Practice
• ICH-GCP at Istanbul, Bangkok, Cyprus, Malta
• International Workshop on Emotional Wellbeing and Emotion regulation in Children and Adolescents
• Hypnosis (American Hypnosis Association)
• International Workshop on Ethics of Mental Illness research and Genetic Epidemiology 
• Psycho-oncology
• Research Methodology in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Clinical Research Skills workshop for Investigators (by Pfizer Inc)
• Personality Disorders
• Motivation enhancement and relapse prevention in alcohol dependent patients
• Medical Relief- post disaster strategies
• Advanced Course on Neuro-radiology