Alok Kanojia

Dr Kanojia, known widely as 'Dr K,' is the foremost expert on video game psychology as Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a private psychiatrist working with esports professionals, and the cofounder of Healthy Gamer. He has first-hand experience as an avid gamer and due to his personal struggles with video game addiction as a teenager and young adult. Despite having loving parents who tried to help – they simply didn’t understand what they were dealing with – after two years of college, Alok had less than a 2.0 GPA. There were simply no solutions, so he first traveled to India, where he embarked on a seven year journey to become a monk. After years of dedicated practice to understand the nature of desire and overcome his ow

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