GMC 7533572
Dr. Harshada Makena is a Consultant Psychiatrist with more than 14 years experience in Psychiatry working within the NHS and PUK.
She completed MBBS and MD in Psychiatry from India and moved to UK in 2016. She pursued Psychiatry within the NHS and completed training at South West London and St. George’s NHS Mental Health Trust. She has a CCT in General Adult Psychiatry with an endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry and is AC and sec 12 approved on the GMC Specialist register and a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is a certified OSCE examiner and experienced in delivering Family Intervention for first episode psychosis.
Dr. Makena is trained across various psychiatric subspecialties and has specialist knowledge, skill and experience in assessing and managing a range of mental health conditions including psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and anxiety disorders, perinatal mental health conditions and substance use disorder.
She has special interest in Adult ADHD.
She has worked across different countries different healthcare systems, with people from a variety of socio-economic, cultural and religious backgrounds and speak three languages fluently – English, Telugu and Hindi.
She says: ”I believe in equality in diversity and working alongside my clients and patients to create a wholistic biopsychosocial modelled care plan which looks at lifestyle factors in addition to medication and other treatment modalities for healing both body and mind.”
