"Its compassion and empathy that a person who is unwell looks for in a doctor. And the need for this empathy is way more when the illness is of the mind than of the body”, says Dr. Janhavi. With her special interests in child, women and geriatric psychiatry, Dr. Janhavi Katdare can understand women and their issues well. It is in fact women’s issues that pulled Janhavi towards the branch of psychiatry after her MBBS. She has done her DNB training from Masina hospital, which is one of the best Psychiatry hospitals in Mumbai with an outpatient load of more than 50 psychiatry patients per day. She went on to work in Nair hospital in the child guidance clinic, which is one of the learning disability certifying centres in Mumbai. Apart from this she has also worked in KJ Somaiyya hospital and also in the burns ward of Masina hospital, which is one of the best burn management centres in Mumbai. She is now a consultant Psychiatrist with her own private practice in Andheri and Goregaon. She is also attached to charitable hospitals like Millat hospital in Jogeshwari and Nirali Charitable OPD for L&T welfare where she dedicates 3 days of the week to help underprivileged patients. Her high analytical, deductive and reasoning skills in evaluating a patient coupled with her compassionate attitude make her the special doctor that she is..
MIMER medical college
Talegaon, Pune 2001- 2006.
Masina Hospital, Mumbai.
Somaiyya Hospital, Mumbai.