Dr Anilkumar did his undergraduate studies in Kerala, India. After finishing his MBBS, he did SHO jobs in Medicine and Paediatrics, before passing his PLAB examination in the first attempt in 1996, He did an SHO job in Transcultural Psychiatry in Bradford for 6 months, before joining the Sheffield SHO Rotation(1997-200). Dr Anilkumar worked in all the General Psychiatry subspecialties including Forensic Psychiatry and Substance Misuse and had a very good training in psychodynamic psychotherapy during his SHO training in Sheffield.

He moved to London to do research at the Institute of Psychiatry, after passing his MRCPsych. He worked as a Clinical Research Worker in the section of Cognitive Psychopharmacology for a year(2000-2001). He completed his Specialist Registrar training in Adult Psychiatry on 31 st March 2004 (CCST) with a special endorsement in Substance Misuse Psychiatry. He has worked as a Locum Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions, for three months from October 2003. He has also worked in a first episode Psychosis service and also did a mood disorder clinic for a year as his special interest. He started working as the Consultant Psychiatrist in General Psychiatry with the St Giles 2 Continuing Care team at the Maudsley Hospital, in May 2004 and continued in this post till October 2006. St Giles locality is the largest locality in Southwark and it is an ethnically diverse inner-city catchment area with a floating refugee population. He had around 550 patients under his care.During this period he helped revamp and restructure the service, reduced the number of serious untoward incidents, improved client involvement and client satisfaction in the treatment process through a culturally sensitive, nonjudgemental, empathetic approach and also improved the throughput.

From November 2006 onwards, Dr Anilkumar has been working as the Consultant Psychiatrist for the assertive outreach team which covers the whole of Southwark . Assertive Outreach teams care for hard- to- engage patients who have a diagnosis of psychosis, who do not adhere to treatment regimes and readily lose contact with services .Many of these patients have associated substance misuse problems and experience socioeconomic deprivation. In Southwark, substantial proportion of these patients are from ethnic minorities, and there is high level of deprivation, unemployment, substance misuse, relatively high incidence of psychotic disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), dual diagnosis.

He has been involved in four f-MRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) projects on the effects of antipsychotics medication and other therapies on the brain of patients with Schizophrenia. The papers from these studies are being submitted for publication. One of these projects was on first episode psychosis. His other research interests include research in Transcultural Psychiatry. He has completed a review on faith healing.