Senior Clinical Director
TEWV NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Krishnan has been on the journey of raising delirium awareness since 2014 in his region and globally. He contributed in making a social movement with his #DeliriumReady campaign which had global reach on World Delirium Day in March 2019.
He received the inspirational leader of the year award in 2017 from North East Leadership Academy.
His Delirium Education work was highly commended at the British Medical Journal award 2017.
For his work on Delirium he was awarded Psychiatric Communicator of the year 2017 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
In 2016 and 2018 his team won the Psychiatry team of the year at the Royal College awards ceremony.
Dr Krishnan has been on the journey of raising delirium awareness since 2014 in his region and globally he contributed in making a social movement using the powers of social media and networking.
He is active in promoting delirium awareness in social media and started the hashtag #icanpreventDELIRIUM.
His #DeliriumReady campaign had a global reach on the World Delirium Day in March 2019.
He has presented his work on delirium education in national and international conferences.
He received the inspirational leader of the year award in 2017 from North East Leadership Academy.
His Delirium Education work was highly commended at the British Medical Journal award 2017.
For his work on Delirium he was awarded Psychiatric Communicator of the year 2017 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
In 2016 and 2018 his team won the Psychiatry team of the year at the Royal College awards ceremony.
Quality Improvement
During the Pandemic Dr Krishnan led the innovative project within his trust to use remote ECG device for antipsychotic monitoring in mental health. This has been successfully piloted this project and now hoping to roll our across the trust and then to the region. With support of AHSN Dr Krishnan has secured funding to expand to project and probably to wider mental health trusts across the country.
Twitter handle @DeliriumKrish