Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra CBE is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.
[20] In addition to his CBE in the 2012 New Years Honours, Bhugra has received honours from the American Psychiatry Association, the American College of Psychiatrists, the Academy of Medical Sciences (Singapore), the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists and the International Medical Sciences Academy.
[39] Bhugra sits on the Education Committee of the European Psychiatric Association[40] and is currently leading an international research project covering recruitment of medical students into psychiatry across 23 countries funded by the World Psychiatric Association.
His Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers book was highly commended in the 2011 BMA Awards.
[45] As president (2008–2011) and dean (2003–2008) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists he led on education issues and introduced new curricula, new assessment schemes and made the MRCPsych examination accessible to psychiatry trainees across the globe.
He studied at Mukand Lal National Higher Secondary School, Yamuna Nagar.