Puspanathan, Prash

Dr Prash Puspanathan

General Practitioner; Neuropsychiatry Fellow, The Alfred Hospital Melbourne; Advisory board, Mind Medicine Australia and The Australian Psychedelic Society
Dr Prash Puspanathan is a medical doctor and has been a Neuropsychiatry Fellow at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne since 2013. Prash entered the field of Psychiatry so as to further his interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. He has been an advocate on the importance of these medicine-assisted psychotherapies to the medical community, both in Australia and at conferences globally. He started and ran Psychonauts Onymous, Australia’s first monthly gathering of multidisciplinary professionals discussing current research into the psychedelic space.

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