About the Founder (Contextual Overview)

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Dr Mohit Bhatara is an interdisciplinary scholar whose career spans institutional collaboration, operational leadership, academia, research, and advisory participation across diverse cross-cultural contexts. His experience has been shaped by institutional appointments in international settings, educational training, and collaborations including research collaborations across multiple countries and regions, complemented by sustained personal and professional cross-border engagement.

Educational Background, Research Interests, Scholarly Portfolio and Publications

He completed an academic programme in Clinical Leadership awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, earning a Level 9 award, a Professional Diploma accredited by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the National University of Ireland, and is an alumnus of RCSI, Ireland.

He achieved first-class standing across his undergraduate degree, Master’s degree, PGDRP, and MicroMasters in Business Management. His academic foundation was shaped in part by early exposure to alternative health perspectives within the field of complementary medicine. He completed a Doctorate, which represents his terminal academic qualification. His academic trajectory also included completion of a Fellowship in Neurological Rehabilitation. He has previously engaged in a post-doctoral non-resident research capacity within an academic setting in Canada. Alongside his formal studies, he participated in extracurricular and academic initiatives that received recognition at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 

In addition, he has completed or contributed to over 135 professional-development and scholarly activities, including training programmes, certifications, webinars, academic workshops, conference participation, scholarly contributions, CRE programmes, MDP, FDPs, specialised professional training programmes, and digital skills including AI certifications. This wider record of professional development includes participation in educational activity titled Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine, conducted in Boston by the Department of Continuing Education, Harvard Medical School, USA. Other illustrative examples include Essentials of CBT: The Beck Approach, Integrating CBT and Mindfulness Series, ACT as a Brief Intervention, ACT for Beginners, DBT Skills, and a programme on Web Education on Deafblindness – Web Ed. (Db). He has co-authored independent and collaborative peer-reviewed publications, including work published with Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor & Francis, with additional work indexed in PubMed.

His academic and research interests extend across interdisciplinary perspectives in human behaviour, integrative health inquiry, and behaviour-informed approaches within broader health and policy contexts, including the conceptual exploration of behavioural insights in the design and evaluation of policy frameworks. His international curriculum portfolio spans 20 academic subject areas across institutions in multiple countries, reflecting extensive cross-cultural experience.

Career History

His broader career history spanned academic involvement, research activity, operational leadership, and advisory participation across diverse international contexts. This included prior employment within a JCI-accredited tertiary-care hospital in the UAE, where he was involved in departmental administration and management, along with related responsibilities, academic appointments as Associate Professor in Ethiopia and Lecturer in China, along with a previous Affiliate Faculty association in Canada. In India, he held a management role within the wellness division of a diversified corporate group, with departmental leadership responsibilities, and was involved in the pre-opening of wellness services within a healthcare setting in the UAE.

Within institutional settings in Ethiopia, his leadership contributions included committee-based roles such as Secretary of a Committee, Secretary of a Laboratory Establishment Committee, and membership on additional institutional committees. He previously served as a committee member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and as a voting member of the Appeals Board within a formal institutional setting, independent of and unrelated to this personal initiative. He has previously been involved in research engagement  within the UAE. He has previously contributed to advisory-oriented discussions related to organisational strategic planning across diverse international contexts. Through a formal departmental memorandum of understanding, undertaken during his tenure in Ethiopia, with an industrial group operating within a structured industrial ecosystem, he contributed to strategic initiatives and supported cross-sector collaboration and research exchange.

He has contributed to a multi-round Delphi consultation undertaken within the Cochrane Informed Health Choices (REASONED) project and has participated within an academic research setting as a Co-Investigator on a study. His current external engagements also include serving as Principal Science Advisor (PSA) with Psyntient, Inc. (Science Advisory Network). 

Memberships, Affiliations, and Networks

He holds memberships and affiliations across a range of professional and scholarly organisations, networks, and platforms. These include the British Psychological Society, as an Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) and Chartered Member (CPsychol); the American Psychological Association, as an International Affiliate; the International Society for Traditional, Complementary & Integrative Medicine Research, as a member; the British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care, as a member; the Fulbright Association, under its Core membership category; The51, under its Founder Membership category; and KPMG Connect On Board, as a member.

His professional affiliations include selected international expert-network platforms, innovation and venture ecosystem platforms, and research-oriented knowledge networks. These include GLG as Expert, VISASQ/COLEMAN as Expert, and Maven as Consultant, among other similar professional networks. These designations reflect platform acceptance and eligibility only and do not indicate that consulting engagements, advisory assignments, commercial projects, or remunerated assignments have taken place through these platforms.

Independent and Collaborative Scholarship

Alongside his collaborative and professional engagements, he may undertake scholarly activities in independent or collaborative capacities, and selected scholarly activities and publications may be documented through NeusktchmechArc as part of his scholarly and biographical record.

Such scholarly material remains separate from the fictional, symbolic, and artistic framework of NeusktchmechArc. Where research has been undertaken collaboratively or through another institutional setting, the study procedures, ethical approvals, funding, acknowledgements, institutional responsibilities, authorship, affiliations, and other scholarly details, where applicable, remain those identified in the relevant research or publication record. His own contribution and affiliation are reflected according to the capacity in which he participated in the relevant work and as identified in the corresponding scholarly or publication record. Further information regarding the use of the NeusktchmechArc name in scholarly outputs and author-affiliation fields is set out in the Disclaimers & Legal Context page. 

Honorary Roles, Community Engagement and Recognition

He was previously invited to contribute in honorary capacities within formal institutional and community settings. These included service as an Honorary Collaborative Advisor with a department at a public institution in Ethiopia, as well as service as an Honorary Community Engagement Mentor supporting psychoeducation, disability, and inclusion-focused programmes with a special-needs organisation in Ethiopia. In addition, he participated in the ODS Nepal delegation in an observational and engagement-oriented capacity.

He participated in community service and social-impact initiatives across Ethiopia, India, Nepal, the UAE, and China, contributing to programmes focused on health promotion, psychosocial well-being, education, and inclusion. His work supported eye health initiatives, autism-related programmes, education awareness activities, and creative community initiatives for children and adolescents. He served as a Founding Member during the formative phase of a non-commercial, service-oriented community club in Ethiopia. His contributions in industrial settings included supporting cross-cultural workforce adaptation to enhance organisational functioning. Alongside volunteering in education-driven campaigns, he provided honorary participation in psychoeducation, empowerment, disability inclusion, and arts-based community initiatives. His involvement further included supporting student wellbeing activities within higher education environments and co-leading educational awareness projects benefiting students, reflecting a sustained commitment to community development across multiple regions.

He was also nominated for the African Community Service Awards, advanced to the second stage of the FEEL Program by the Dubai Future Foundation, and submitted projects to Dubai Future Solutions – Prototypes for Humanity. All such roles were institution-specific, time-bound, and undertaken independently of this personal initiative. References to such roles are provided solely for contextual and biographical purposes and do not imply any current appointment, authority, endorsement, or ongoing affiliation.

NeusktchmechArc

He founded NeusktchmechArc, an independently maintained personal initiative centred on an original conceptual and creative project. It is not, and is not presented as, a university, degree-granting institution, accredited academic institution, or research institute. The website also includes selected biographical, professional, and scholarly information presented in separately identified sections. Its artistic framework remains distinct from his institutional, academic, advisory, and professional appointments and functions as an exploratory creative practice situated at the intersection of visual practice, reflective inquiry, and conceptual development.

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