Dr K Porpavai

MBBS, DPM, MD, FRANZCP, Cert Child Psychiatry (Melbourne), DPMSA (London), MA Philosophy and Mental Health (UCALN, UK)

Founder and Managing Trustee

Dr Porpavai is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist, with more than thirty years of experience in the field. She founded Pathways Foundation Kovai  in December 2014. She has worked in India, Australia and the UK.

Dr Porpavai has developed the PG-CAMH course and has been coordinating since 2018.  Dr Porpavai has developed the parenting program Pathways to Effective Parenting (PEP). She is passionate about upskilling young people, parents, educators and health service providers in understanding and providing support for their developmental and mental health needs.

Dr Porpavai is passionate about providing the best possible mental health outcome for the community’s number one resource, our children and youth.

Dr Porpavai loves travelling, trekking, reading, writing and spending time doing various arts and crafts whenever she can.

Dr K Selvaraj

MBBS, DPM, MD (Psych) and DNB (Psych)

Trustee

Dr.Selvaraj was born in a village in Tamilnadu, grew up there till he joined MBBS at Thanjavur Medical College, Tamilnadu. He did his MD Psychiatry at Mumbai, at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital.

After Post-graduation, in 1993, he worked for 10 years at the Psychiatry Department at PSG Medical College, Coimbatore where he worked as the Professor and Head of the Department.

Dr Selvaraj is the founder and director of Vazhikatti mental health centre and research institute in Coimbatore.He is also the chair person of Vazhikatti Mental Health Foundation, a Not-For-Profit, Non Governmental Organization (NGO), committed to promoting Mental Health Literacy, and is the Honorary Secretary of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India- Coimbatore.

His areas of professional interest are anxiety, depression, alcoholism, child mental health and parenting. Dr.Selvaraj loves to read books and enjoys music. He loves swimming and cycling.