Dr. Kao Sambath

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Welcome To Indradhanu Clinic

Sambath Kao, MD, MSc, is an outstanding Cambodian professional with 17 years’ experience in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He gained his medical degree from Thai Binh Medical College, Vietnam in 1998, after which he continued study and has been awarded Master Science in Medicine in field of Pediatric degree from Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam in December 2001. He further trained in the area of “Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities & Empowerment of their Family Members” in SETI-Center, Egypt in 2006, and “child and adolescent psychiatry include mental retardation” at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Science (NIMHANS), Bangalore-India in 2010.

 

He has been worked as a chief of service, Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CCAMH), for + 13 years and has been working as deputy of Mental Health and Neurology, National Pediatric Hospital, for + 4 years. 

 

He has been continuing to develop own knowledge in the area of Child and Adolescent Neuro-psychiatry through attending many international conferences in Singapore, India, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia etc. He won an award to do clinical observation at Michael Rutter Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry at Maudsley, London,  UK in March 2013. He attended the 5th IACAPAP Helmut Remschmidt Research Seminar, them “Social Adversity and Child’s Mental Health” in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada in 2015; The Annual Leadership in Mental Health in Goa, India in 2017; EEG and Clinical Epilepsy Course in Sydney, Australia in 2019; Classroom Training – Early Childhood, Ages 3-8 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Clinical Pediatric Neurology training at LAC-USC Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA in 2019.

 

 He had been participated as a Cognitive Specialist Supervisor in the Disability Prevalence Project, organized by Handicap International with the support of Ministry of Education Youth and Sport, Cambodia in 2011-2012 and served as a lead researcher in conducting pre and post clinical assessment to evaluate overall cognitive function, executive function, memory, and attention in a luster-randomized controlled trial to identify the effectiveness of serious mobile game (DoBrain) for cognitive development of children in Cambodia in 2019.

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About Our Clinic

We are a private, independent practice constantly committing to provide compassionate support to families of children with neuro-developmental, emotional and/ or behavioral problems, help their children reach their maximum potential and be independent living by themselves.

Indradhanu is the first private Child and Adolescent Mental Health clinic in Cambodia, founded in September 2014 by Dr. Kao Sambath, the outstanding Child and Adolescent Mental Health professional in the country, who have more than seventeen years of clinical experience in the field. Indradhanu provides a specialty outpatient service for children and adolescents aged 0-18, who are suffering a range of neuro-developmental, emotional and/ or behavioral problems.


Indradhanu specialize in assessing and managing Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Anxiety, Behavior disorders, Epilepsy, TIC disorders, Mood disorders, and Emotional concerns.