Manoj Kumar Sharma

Clinicians & Public Health · NIMHANS Bengaluru, SHUT Clinic

Runs India's first tech de-addiction clinic and a national digital-detox helpline out of NIMHANS Bengaluru.

Manoj Kumar Sharma is a clinician at NIMHANS — the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences — in Bengaluru, India, where he runs SHUT, the country's first clinic dedicated to treating problematic technology use, alongside a national digital-detox helpline. His work represents one of the most established clinical responses anywhere to tech-related compulsive use, combining direct patient care with research that has helped shape India's public-health understanding of screen use among children and young people. Sharma's NIMHANS-based program is frequently cited as a reference point for other countries building their own clinical responses to problematic screen use.