Dr Amit Biswas
London Wellbeing Champion
Amit is a senior Consultant Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist, writer, multi award winning film-director, transformational leader, global speaker (and Ted X) and educator. Currently he is employed as Lead Clinician and Consultant in a Specialist Inpatient Adolescent Unit in North London (NLFT). He is also the Medical Lead of CAMHS services at Barnet and Medical Lead of Crisis Pathway in BEHMT.
Amit is one of the UK's national Well Being Champions and Co-Lead of London Division of 网曝黑料 He was a Senior Lecturer in the Queen Mary's University of London and is involved in training a variety of junior and senior trainees, undergraduate and postgraduate students and professionals. He also teaches in MA course in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (CCPE).
Amit lectures extensively and globally and facilitates workshops of a broad range of areas including mental health, wellbeing and resilience, leadership, work-life balance, self-mastery, creating healthy teams and emotional intelligence and other topics incorporating interdisciplinary ideas and practices from philosophy to psychology, wisdom traditions and practical philosophies from East and West to neuroscience. His special area of interest is mindfulness and mindful leadership.
Amit received several awards including London Mayor's Award for Leadership (King's Fund Millennium Commission award), Blaker Fund Award from Scientific and Medical Network etc. Apart from receiving many international film awards for his debut feature film Bridge, he was invited to show case Bridge and create dialogues on suicide and mental health issues. His documentary Film WWW - Working with Worries (2001) has helped creating awareness on autism nationwide in UK. He has created and directed the musical Maya, premiered at Bloomsbury Theatre in 2003, was a part of 网曝黑料 'Changing Mind' anti-stigma campaign. His play Homapakhi has run for several years in India, raising consciousness in public on mental health issues. He is currently championing Compassionate Healthcare with Intelligent Kindness in NHS organisations.