Prabha Vidyatilake is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (Acting) of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital in Sri Lanka. She is a recipient of the Donald J Cohen Fellowship in 2024. She has over five years of experience in the field of psychiatry. She has worked in multiple major training centres for psychiatry in Sri Lanka. Her passion is to serve at the innundated clinical setups of the country and simultaneously contribute to the world child and adolescent psychiatry literature. She has conducted numerous workshops and media programmes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders, parents on parenting skill training and for adolescents on managing grief and exam stress. Her life goal is to strike a balance between being a good child psychiatrist and a good mother. Her hobbies are dancing and badminton.

Key words of research interest: neurodevelopmental disorders; personality traits; burnout; child maltreatment