Bestowed Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Medical Association, for  contribution to psychosocial interventions in disasters, public awareness on mental health, medical education, and service to the community.

Bestowed "Most Trusted Neuro-Psychiatrist of the year" by the APS Rising Leadership Awards 2017.

Clinic, ranked 15th among Neuroscience Centers in South India, and 7th in Chennai, by the Times of India National Hospital Survey 2017.

Recognised for his work in 53 Tsunami affected villages in Tamilnadu. Lauded by the Governor of Tamilnadu Hon. Surjit Singh Barnala who also released the Handbook for Community Counselor Trainers.

Awarded the International Toothed Wheel Prize by the Rotary Club of Salzberg for the best environment protection project in the world - 1992.

Invited by the Government of India to form part of an expert group to draft the National Disaster Management Guidelines – Psychosocial Support and Mental Health Services in 2007, and to review the draft Guidelines in 2008.

Invited by the World Heath Organization to serve as resource person, from India, for the Early Childhood Care and Development program in developing countries - 1993 to 1996.

Invited by the Child-to-Child Trust, London to serve as Honorary Director of the Child-to-Child South India Resource Group, 1996 to 1999, overseeing and auditing projects in South India.

Featured in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mission 2009 document.

His work is said to have been instrumental in shaping the Sri Lanka government's Disaster Management Road Map.

Chennai doctor honoured in Goa - The Hindu

IMA honour for Chennai doctor - The Hindu

Contributions

Disaster Mental Health

Public awareness / mental health

Medical Education

Community Service

Academic achievements

Handbook for Community Counselor Trainers cataloged by the Library of Congress,USA and National Library of the Government of India.

It is recommended by the Disaster Risk Management Team of UNDP and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and forms part of the government of India's Disaster Risk Management Program toolkit for "Mainstreaming Disability in Disaster Management."

It is recommended by the Australian Disability and Development consortium^.

The handbook is one of the recommended material by the Association for Development of Education in Africa.

The book has been translated into Japaneseand has been used for counselling the traumatised survivors of Japan's worst-ever disaster (combined earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear leak) of 2011.

It has also been translated into Romanianand used to cousel survivors of the great Romanian earthquake.