Rate My Professor Srinivasan Tirupati

Srinivasan Tirupati serves as Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds qualifications including MD, FRCPsych, and FRANZCP. His career encompasses extensive clinical and research roles in psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health services. From September 2002 to June 2024, he was Staff Specialist at the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service, Hunter New England Mental Health, Newcastle, Australia, where he functioned as a Senior Staff Specialist and Rehabilitation Psychiatrist. Since September 2024, he has held the position of Research Consultant in Psychiatry at MS Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, India. Additionally, since June 2002, he has been a Member of the Research Coordination Committee at the Schizophrenia Research Foundation, India.

Tirupati's research specializations include the experience of recovery among people with schizophrenia in diverse socio-cultural contexts, such as India and Australia, employing qualitative methods, and mental health services research in regional and rural India through collaborations with non-governmental providers. His expertise spans schizophrenia, mental health recovery, psychiatric rehabilitation, community mental health services, metabolic syndrome, and clozapine treatment. He has produced 121 publications, garnering 3,049 citations. Notable works include 'God and religion in mental health recovery: Perspectives of people with schizophrenia and their family members, and mental health professionals in India and Australia' (2026), 'Medications for physical conditions associated with psychotropics in patients with enduring schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders' (2025), 'Two-year outcome of a treatment program for alcohol use disorder in regional and rural India' (2025), 'High rates of myocarditis with clozapine in the Hunter region of Australia' (2024), 'Rehospitalisation of Patients with Enduring Schizophrenia After Discharge from a Long-Stay Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit' (2023), 'Electrocardiographic abnormalities and psychotropic polypharmacy in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders' (2021), 'Implementation of a recovery-oriented model in a sub-acute intermediate stay mental health unit (ISMHU)' (2017), and 'Duration of untreated psychosis and treatment outcome in schizophrenia patients untreated for many years' (2004). These contributions have advanced understanding of recovery-oriented practices, clozapine safety, and cross-cultural mental health outcomes.