Dr. Indra Cidambi - Expert Psychiatrist

Indra Cidambi, M.D., India News Bulletin's expert doctor columnist, is the Medical Director of Center for Network Therapy, the first licensed facility in the state of New Jersey to offer detoxification on an outpatient basis from all substances of abuse. The centre is Dr. Cidambi's own detoxification facility.

Dr Indra Cidambi - expert psychiatrist and India News Bulletin columnist

Dr. Cidambi completed medical school at the Second Tashkent State Medical Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She acquired her training in psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and completed her residency in Psychiatry in 2004.

Dr. Cidambi then pursued a Fellowship in Addiction Medicine from New York University/Bellevue School of Medicine and completed her Fellowship in 2006.

Prior to setting up her own detoxification facility, Dr. Cidambi was practicing Addiction Medicine since 2006 and was the Director of Detoxification and Rehabilitation at Summit Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey.

Dr. Cidambi is Board Certified in General Psychiatry as well as Addiction Medicine (ABAM). She has been a regular contributor to NDTV.com - one of India's commercial broadcasting television network.

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