Dr Praveen Kumar
Consultant Psychiatrist and Founder
A consultant psychiatrist with more than a decade at consultant level, including Clinical Director in the NHS and Medical Director in the independent sector. He helped establish NHS adult ADHD services across Cambridge, Peterborough and West Norfolk, and is formally trained in ADOS-2 and ADI-R.
MBBS, MRCPsych | CCT in General Adult Psychiatry with accreditation in Rehabilitation Psychiatry
GMC number 6060364
Registered manager for the service with the Care Quality Commission.
Dr Kumar is a consultant psychiatrist with more than a decade of consultant-level experience across the NHS and independent practice. He holds a CCT in General Adult Psychiatry with accreditation in Rehabilitation Psychiatry.
His special interests are ADHD and autism across the lifespan. Much of his NHS career was spent building and running the kind of assessment services he now offers privately — which is why Plexus is arranged the way it is: seen quickly, assessed properly, and by someone senior enough to take the whole picture into account.
He is the registered manager for the service with the Care Quality Commission.
Special interests
- ADHD in children, young people and adults
- Autism assessment for all ages
- Shared care and titration
- Second opinions
- Rehabilitation psychiatry
Background
- Clinical training
- Basic and advanced psychiatric training on the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough scheme, under mentors associated with the University of Cambridge. CCT in General Adult Psychiatry with accreditation in Rehabilitation Psychiatry, awarded 2011.
- ADHD and autism
- Worked in — and helped establish — NHS adult ADHD services across Cambridge, Peterborough and West Norfolk. Formally trained in ADOS-2 and ADI-R, the internationally recognised gold-standard instruments for autism assessment.
- Senior NHS leadership
- More than a decade of consultant-level practice, including Clinical Director in the NHS and Medical Director in the independent sector — roles that involve setting the standards a service is held to, not just working within them.
- Breadth of setting
- Experience spanning general adult, rehabilitation, crisis, liaison and prison psychiatry. That range is what allows a complex or long-standing picture to be reconsidered properly.
- Medico-legal
- Section 12 approval and Approved Clinician status, with experience preparing expert witness reports for solicitors, courts and tribunals.
Registered with the General Medical Council and a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Check this for yourself on the GMC medical register using GMC number 6060364, where he is listed under his full name, Praveen Kumar Gandamaneni. We would encourage you to do the same for any clinician you are considering.
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