Dr. Parmar Arpit Jashwantbhai

Dr. Parmar Arpit Jashwantbhai

Assoc. Prof.
Psychiatry

psych_parmar@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in

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Dr. Parmar Arpit Jashwantbhai

Assoc. Prof.

Psychiatry

Degree / Diploma Name of the University/ Institution Subject Year of Passing
MBBS Aug 2005–Feb 2010 Government Medical College, Vadodara
MD Psychiatry July 2012-June 2015 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
DM Addiction Psychiatry Jan 2017-Jan 2020 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Addiction Psychiatry
  • Evidence-based Programs
  • Opioid substitution therapy
  • Injecting drug use and Harm reduction

 

  • Biswas T, Singh GK, Mohanty A, Mishra BR, Padhy SK, Parmar A. Factors related to witnessing opioid overdose among people who inject drugs (PWID): a cross-sectional study. Journal of Substance Use. 2025 Mar 8:1-7. (Corresponding author)
  • Ranjan R, Balhara YP, Mishra BR, Ahmad S, Sarkar S, Bharti A, Panigrahi S, Sinha M, Rajguru AJ, Kumar P, Mohapatra D, Parmar, A. Factor structure, Reliability and Validity of an Indian Scale for Assessment of Nomophobia (ISAN) among College Students: A Multicentre Indian Study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2024 Dec 24.
  • Pal, A., Parmar, A., Nath, S., Chawla, N., Gupta, S., Vinay, HR., & Kishor, M. (2024) Survey of Felt Needs Among Teachers of Psychiatry in Institutes of National Importance (INI) to Improve the Quality of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine. 46(5); 439-444
  • Parmar A, Sahu DP, Behera P. Burden of alcohol use and inclusion of alcohol use disorder medications in the essential medicine lists across 132 countries: An observational study. Alcohol. 2024 Feb 27.
  • Balhara, YPS., Saha, P., Mathew, M., Kumar, M., Parmar, A., Lal, R., & Sarkar, S. (2023) Non-prescription use of buprenorphine tablets among treatment seeking population at a tertiary care addictive disorders treatment centre in India: Observations and Implications. Journal of Opioid Management 19(5), 403-411.
  • Parmar, A., Nath, S. and Bhatia, G., (2022) Essential substance use disorder medications in Asia Pacific countries: An observational study. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 78, p.103276.
  • Balhara, YPS., Ghosh, A., Sarkar, S., Mahadevan, J., Pal, A., Venkata Lakshmi N., Kattula, D., Prasad, S., Parmar, A., Kathiresan, P., Basu, A., Bhatia, G., Shah, R., Dhagudu, N., Tripathi, R., & Bharadwaj, B. (2022) Clinical care of patients with dualdisorders in India: Diverse models of care delivery. Advances in Dual Diagnosis. 15(4), 227-243
  • Parmar, A., Gnanavel, S., Gurcan, A., Rai, Y., Karki, U., Da Costa, MP, Szczegielnial, A., & Pereira-Sanchez, V. (2022). Violence against psychiatric trainees from Asian countries: A pilot online survey. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 65(3), 373-377
  • Quraishi, R., Sarkar, S., Parmar, A.,, R., Das., BK, & Ambekar., A. (2022) Exploring the clinical variables among drug dependent HIV positive patients: Implications for treatment strategies. Indian Journal of Public Health. 66(3); 331-333.
  • Saini R, Parmar A, Rao R, Mishra AK, Ambekar A, Agrawal A. (2021) Psychiatric and Substance Use Comorbidities among People who Inject Drugs in India: A Cross-Sectional, Community-Based Study. World Social Psychiatry. 3(3):195-202.
  • Parmar, A., Lal, R., Sarkar, S., & Balhara, YPS. (2021). Neurological soft signs in cannabis use disorder with or without psychosis: A comparative study from India. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 17(4), 267-276. (Corresponding author)
  • Singh, S., Bhatia, G., Sharma, P., & Parmar, A. (2021). “Celebrity drug use reporting in Indian media and its impact on drug-related online search behavior: An infodemiology study”. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 63(4), 391-395. (Corresponding author)
  • Parmar, A., Gupta, G., & Bhad, R. (2021). An exploratory study of clinical profile, stigma and pathways to care among primary cannabis use disorders in India. Journal of Substance Use. 27 (1) 74-79
  • Sarkar, S., Parmar, A., & Singh, A. (2020). An exploratory study of cannabis use pattern and treatment seeking in patients attending an addiction treatment facility. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 62(2), 145-151.
  • Gnanavel, S., Sharma, P., Tonda, AS., Alemany, TS., Chang, J., Filho, MVDM., Kusi-Mensah, M., Kaligis, F., Kato, H., Kim Le, H., Morimoto, K., Martsenkovskyi., Kaur, D., Singh, M., Pawar, A., Seker, A., Syed, S., Karki, U., Parmar, A & Tan, M. (2019) Child and adolescent psychiatry training curriculum: A global trainee’s perspective. BJPsych International, 17 (3), 69-71.
  • Saini, R., Rao, R., Parmar, A., Mishra, AK, Ambekar, A & Agrawal, A. (2020) Rates, knowledge and risk factors of non-fatal opioid overdose among People Who Inject Drugs in India: A community-based study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 39(1), 93-97.
  • Varshney, M., Parmar, A & Mishra, AK. (2020). The past, present, and future of literature pertaining to betel (areca) nut: A citation analysis. Substance Use and Misuse, 55(9), 1403-1412.
  • Parmar, A., Dubey, A., Balhara, YPS, & Mishra, AK. (2019) Do Addiction Science Journals Endorse Unbiased Reporting of Research? A Systematic Evaluation of Instructions for Authors. Substance Use and Misuse, 54 (10), 1734-1742.
  • Parmar, A., Gupta, P., Panda, U., & Bhad, R. (2019). An observational study assessing the pathways to care among treatment seeking users of natural opiates. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 27(3), 199-204.
  • Parmar, A., Sharan, P., Khandelwal, S., Agrawal, K., Sharma, U., & Jagannathan, NR. (2019). Brain neurochemistry in unmedicated Obsessive Compulsive Disorder patients and effects of 12-week escitalopram treatment: A 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 73(7), 386-393. (Corresponding author)
  • Ambekar, A., Mishra, AK., Parmar, A., Kumar, R., Kumar, M., Rao, RV., & Agrawal A. (2019). Are non-injecting opioid users at risk of transition to injecting drug use? A multi-site study from India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 42, 79-84.
  • Parmar, A., Ganesh, R., & Mishra, AK. (2019). The top 100 cited articles on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A citation analysis. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 42, 34-41.
  • Mandal, P., Parmar, A., Ambekar, A., & Dhawan, A. (2019). Substance use among treatment seeking Indian adolescent girls: Are they unique? Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 41, 17-19.
  • Gupta, P., Parmar, A., Panda, U., & Bhad, R. (2019). Internalized stigma and its correlates among treatment seeking opium users in India: A cross-sectional observational study. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 86-90.
  • Singh, S., Singh, S., Parmar A. Verma, R., Kumar, N. (2018). Effect of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with comorbid panic disorder and major depression. Australasian Psychiatry, 26(4), 398-400
  • Parmar, A., Patil, V., Rao, R., & Sarkar S. (2018). An observational study of treatment seeking users of natural opiates from India. Substance Use and Misuse 53(7), 1139-1145
  • Ambekar, A., Parmar, A., Mandal, P., & Therthani S. (2018). High proportion of pentazocine dependence among treatment-seeking female injecting drug users (FIDUs) in India: A distinct population? Journal of Substance Use, 23(2), 120-123
  • Sarkar, S., Balhara, YPS, Parmar, A., & Rajhans, P. (2018). A study of pathological gambling and its correlates among patients seeking treatment for substance use disorders in North India. Journal of Substance Use ,23(2), 193-198 (Corresponding author)
  • Ambekar, A., Parmar, A., Therthani, S., & Mandal, P. (2017). Profile of women substance users seeking treatment at tertiary care treatment centre in India: A retrospective chart review study. Journal of Substance Use, 22(5), 507-510.
  • Mandal P., Parmar A., Therthani S., & Ambekar A. (2016). Profile of elderly women seeking treatment for substance use disorders at a tertiary care treatment centre. Journal of Substance Use, 22(3), 353-355.
  • Parmar A., Patil V., & Sarkar S. (2017). Natural opioid use in elderly in India. Journal of Substance Use, 22(2), 156-158. (Corresponding author)

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Areas of Interest
    • Biological Psychiatry
    • Addiction Psychiatry
    • Evidence-based Programs
    • Opioid substitution therapy
    • Injecting drug use and Harm reduction