Dr. Savita Goswami is a Clinical Psychologist working in the specialised area of psycho- oncology and palliative care psychiatry in the Psycho-oncology service in Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai in India, since the last 22 years. She has a keen interest in survivorship care, and paediatric psycho-oncology, especially adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer. She has been working closely with the hospital Neuro-Oncology Disease Management Group on neurocogntive assessment for patients with brain tumours receiving radiation therapy and has several publications in this area. She has an avid interest in conducting support groups for cancer patients and their caregivers and does a monthly group for brain tumour patients. She is an active member of the Survivors Clinic run since 25 years in the hospital. She is a also a mentor for childhood cancer survivors support group. She has several publications to her credit, mainly in the area of neurocogntive functioning of brain tumour patients. She is involved in research work in psycho-oncology and has done research on caregivers’ distress in palliative care. She is faculty in national and international training programmes, in both Psycho-oncology and Palliative care for educational programmes for doctors, nurses, psychologists and social workers. She runs training programmes for nursing staff in oncology and conducts workshops for staff working in the hospital as part of service of Psycho-oncology Department.
Her interest lies in expressive arts therapy, especially drama therapy. She herself is an accomplished national fellowship award winning theater actress and has been part of a social drama themed motion picture in Marathi (Champions), which won a national award.
Dr. Savita Goswami
Clinical Psychologist
Psycho-oncologist
Psychiatric Unit
Organization details
Tata Memorial Hospital
Dr.Ernest Borges Marg
Parel, Mumbai – 400012
Maharashtra, India
Phone- 022 24177000
Fax- 022 24146937
Contact details
savitata@yahoo.co.in
Mobile – 9820050072
Office no- 022 24177000, Ext-4515