JIPMER Psychiatry resident bags research poster award at WASP 2018

Dr. Favaz.V, 2nd year Junior resident, Department of Psychiatry, JIPMER won the 1st runner up award for the best research poster in the World Association of Social Psychiatry Regional Conference recently held in Cochin from December 8th -9th, 2018 for his work on “Effect of adjunctive single parenteral dose of vitamin D on clinical severity and quality of life in major depression: A double blind randomized parallel arm placebo controlled trial.” 

This research project was done under the guidance of Dr. Vikas Menon (Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry, JIPMER). The co-guides for the project were Dr. Medha Rajappa (Additional Professor, Department of Biochemistry, JIPMER) and Dr. Jayaprakash Sahoo( Associate Professor, Department of Endocrinology, JIPMER).