12 May 2017 | 11am until 12pm

The Cornerstone Building, Liverpool

Sannidhi Dialogues: Dr Ramya Mohan

Art, Science & Creativity

Free Admission

Dr Ramya Mohan is a senior Consultant Developmental Psychiatrist and Medical Educator, as well as the Founder and Managing Director of iMANAS London, an organisation set up to promote the integration of Medicine, Arts, Neuroscience and Ability in Society. She is considered a global pioneer in innovative, focused projects bringing Science, Medicine and Art together harmoniously on global platforms, transcending borders, cultures and languages. Ramya firmly believes in the healing and therapeutic power of music. She has attempted to incorporate this approach meaningfully into her medical practice to promote recovery from illness and aid personality development in children and young people. She has conceptualised, composed the vocal components and lent her voice for a novel therapeutic musicbased, self-guided technique CAPE (Creative Arts for Processing Emotions) in collaboration with Vidwan Balu Raghuraman, Dr Nandakumara (The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,London) and Dr Amal Lad.

Ramya is also a talented musician, having been trained in Carnatic vocal from a young age by her parents, both of whom are trained musicians. She has also learnt from Vidwaan M A Narasimhachar and Vidushi M A Meera in Bangalore. She has performed at various prestigious venues across the UK and India. Alongside her music, Ramya is also a talented artist who draws on her Eastern roots and her working life in the West, combining elements of tradition and spirituality with modernism and functionality.

In this lecture, entitled ‘Art, Science and Creativity’, Ramya will discuss her pioneering work in combining her love of music and the arts with her medical work.