I had received my post doctoral training in Gastroenterology (DM) at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh – India in 1992-93. I got my post graduate (MD) training from the same Institute after having received my graduate degree from North Bengal Medical College. Susrutnagar, Darjeeling. I had received a brief training in molecular microbiology methods at Washington University school of Medicine, St. Louis, USA in 2000.
My primary research focus is in population health. As a hepatologist, this translates into studies in epidemiology and burden of liver diseases in India.
This include the differential aspects of the dynamics of the emerging liver disease scenario in this country – including population based molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B and C in India, characteristics of NAFLD in our population, development of a longitudinal cohort for outcome studies in liver disease – focussing ion metabolic syndrome. In addition, I am involved in a study on Genetics of lean NASH – an entity which we have described in 2010 as a possible “third world” NASH phenotype. I am in the board of executives of Biomedical Genomics Centre, Kolkata and Project Director of Birbhum Population Project.
I am involved in planning and directing hepatology clinical services at SDLD. |