Primary contact address

Abraham Cowley Unit,
Holloway Hill Lyne,
Chertsey,
KT16 0AE,
United Kingdom

Primary telephone number

01932 723 237

Specialities

  • Older People's Mental Health

Areas covered

  • Runnymede

Biography

Dr Dayanandan completed his pre-clinical training and undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford before moving to London to do his clinical training at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine. His house jobs included three month posts with Professors in HIV Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital and Clinical Pharmacology at University College Hospital. His basic psychiatric training was on the Oxford rotation. Dr Dayanandan did his Higher Specialist Training in Old Age Psychiatry on the Maudsley training scheme in London and has been in his current post as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist since 2003. He currently works as a community Consultant for Runnymede but in the past has managed psychiatric inpatients, day hospital patients and covered liaison psychiatry at St Peter's Hospital as well. In addition to clinical work, he teaches and assesses final year medical students at the University of Southampton. With the help of colleagues, Dr Dayanandan set up the memory service for Runnymede & West Elmbridge.