Contributing Clinicians

Dr Syamakrishnan is Chief medical officer in Indian systems of medicine department of Kerala. After initiation to this great science at Coimbatore and Trivandrum Ayurveda Colleges, he was fortunate to get trained under traditional Ayurveda stalwarts like Vaidyamadom Cheriyanarayanan Nampoothiri and Poomulli Neelakantan Nampoothiripad. Working with total devotion in health service delivery, his mission in life is to re-validate, standardize and make Ayurveda popular to the masses by making the treatment cost-effective. With this objective, he designed a project on Cost effective and evidence based Ayurveda funded by people's campaign of Govt of Kerala to manage 100 diagnosed Inter Vertebral Disc Prolapse patients. He has presented in National and International seminars, CME programs: He is a member of State level Institutional review board of Govt of Kerala, as well as a member of Scientific committee and research wing, Indian systems of medicine. Dr Syamakrishnan is a resource person to various ROTPs, teaching and training programs, and has done educational programs in All India Radio and other private TV channels. He has authored scientific articles in journals and writeups on health in different magazines. He was conferred with many prestigious awards including "Caraka Award", "Ayurveda Gnana Bindu" and "Dhanwantari Award".