Vedavyasa Biliyar

Dr. Biliyar is a board-certified psychiatrist practicing in the Nashville area over the last 30 years. He has his medical degree from Bellary, India, and completed a residency in Cherokee, IA, and child fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in children and adolescents, and families and has combined psychotherapy, parent training, and medication management of complex hospitalized patients as well as day-to-day emotional, behavioral, and parenting problems. He is currently directing an adolescent inpatient program, and in charge of training residents as a core faculty in the Tristar psychiatry residency program. He is familiar to the Nashville Indian community as ex-chairman of the board of trustees at Sri Ganesha temple of Nashville and ex-president of India Association of Nashville. He has been involved in religious education and promoting mental health awareness through his stress management workshops and lectures on suicide prevention.