Dr Ramesh Muthuswamy

Professional statement

Dr Ramesh Muthuswamy is a leading consultant psychiatrist based in London and Kent who specialises in eating disorders, depression and anxiety disorders alongside bipolar disorder, personality disorders and OCD. He privately practises via e-consultation and his NHS base is North East London Foundation NHS Trust.  

Dr Muthuswamy is highly qualified with an MB BS, an MRCPsych and an MSc in Psychiatry where he received post graduate distinctions for his research work. His higher training was completed at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust where he worked in liaison, forensic, perinatal, acute psychiatry and specialist eating disorders services at St Thomas, Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospitals. 

Dr Muthuswamy, who has experience as a medical director in private medical care and as a consultant psychiatrist for a specialist eating disorders service in the NHS, chairs the medical emergencies in eating disorders clinical group with the acute hospitals in his current NHS role. 

He is a respected name in clinical education and held an honorary visiting senior lecturer post at the Institute of Medical Sciences at Canterbury Christchurch University in Kent.

Passionate about quality improvement, leadership and medical education, he has acted as a principal investigator for self-help interventions for patients with anorexia nervosa, a multi-centre national study and also worked as sub-investigator for a depression study in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. 

Dr Muthuswamy has also presented his work at various national conferences and was nominated for the Douglas Bennett Prize for his oral presentation on 'Recovery in Mental Health' at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Psychiatry conference organised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in 2011. He is also a member of the RCPsych.