Dr. R. K. Mahendru is former Professor and Head Psychiatric Division, GSVM Medical College, Kanpur. He was first to obtain MD in Psychiatry in 1971 from K G’ S Medical College Lucknow. He has won Indian Psychiatric Society, Central Zone Oration Award in 1986 and has been the President and Secretary of Central Zone Branch of Indian Psychiatric Society. He has published nearly 40 scientific papers in various national and international journals and written several articles on psychiatry and mental health in various magazines and news papers. He has successfully organized national conference of Indian Psychiatric Society in Jan 1997 at Kanpur.and national mid term CME programme of Indian Psychiatric Society held at Khajuraho in Sept ’2004. He has attended many zonal, national, and international psychiatric conferences and seminars presented many original research papers.He has been heading the clinical research activity at the site since inception(2005).