Educational Qualification

MBBS in 1966; Stood 6th in order of merit, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh

MD (Medicine), 1970 (Dibrugarh University)

Trained in Dialysis from Christian Medical College and Hospitals(CMC), Vellore

Fellowship :

• Fellow of International College Angiology .
• Fellow of College of Chest Physician, India .
• Fellow of All India Medicos Society.
• Fellow of IMA Academy of Medical Specialties.
• Fellow of Indian College of Physicians.
• Fellow of International College of Nutrition.

Professional Experience

• Worked in all 3 Govt. Medical Colleges of Assam under various capacities. Retired from Gauhati Medical College and Hospitals as Prof. & HOD Medicine.
• Previously Demonstrator of Pathology
• Previously Registrar Medicine
• Asst.Prof .of Medicine (07.06.76-22.09.89)
• Prof .of Medicine (22.03.89-31.01.2002)
• Previously In-charge, Renal Unit of A.M.C.H. Dibrugarh
• Professor & Head, Dept of Medicine , Gauhati Medical College from 1.3.1998 to 31.01.2002
• Presently Sr. Consultant, Department of Medicine, Academic Director & Addl .Medical Director, down town hospital since 2002
• Guide for PhD Students in Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences & Assam down town University.
• Member Secretary of down town hospital Ethics Committee and Member of Ethics Committee of GNRC hospital

Achievements

• Life Member of Association of Physicians of India
• Life Member of I.M.A.C.G.P. (INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS)
• Life member of Indian Society of Nephrology.
• Life Member of Assam Cardiological Society.
• Life Member of Indian Society of Clinical Nutrition.
• Member of the Governing body of H.S.I.(Hypertension Society of India)
• Life member of the A.I.M.S.(All India Medical Society)
• Life member of the Indian Society of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
• Life Member of Geriatric Society of India.
• Member (Faculty Council) Indian College of Physicians (for 2 terms/4 years).
• Member of Governing Body of ASSOCIATIONS OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIA (API) (for 4 years)
• Secretary, I.M.A.C.G.P. (INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS) from1985-1992
• General Secretary, A.P.I. Assam Chapter (1989-98)
• Member of the Editorial Board of JAPI (Journal of Association of Physicians of India Medicine Update & Current Medical Pratice
• General Secretary, IMA AMS from 1992
• Served as Secretary of Indian Medical Associations Academy of Medical Specialities (IMAAMS).
• Vice President , A.P.I.Assam
• State Chapter, Chairman A.P.I.Assam
• Organizing Secretary, APICON -94(Guwahati Session )
• HIV Consultant Ex-State Physician Responsible for AIDS Management (PRAM), Assam
• Physician to the honorable Governor of Assam.
• Recipient of Sir Ronald Ross Oration (Centenary )in PGIMER, Kolkata (2004)
• Recognition from ASSOCIATIONS OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIA (API) State Chapter Oration in Kaziranga, Assam (2008)
• Recipient of Dr. Pratul Goswami Memorial Award from down town Hospital in 2012

Research Topic

• REsearch on Hypertension, Renal diseases like Acute Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Failure, U.T.I. (Urinary Tract Infection), H.I.V & Malaria with special reference to multi drug resistance malaria in the North East.
• More than 100 Publication in National and 7 in International Journals
• Contributed papers for Medicine Update and Post Graduate Medicine of Associations Of Physicians Of India (API) & for various other journals .Contributed chapters in API Textbook of Medicine -7^th , 8^th , 9^th, 10^th & 11^th edition .
• Edited a monogram in Thalassaemia under Indian College of Physicians (ICP) Contributed a chapter on Anemia in Malaria in ICP Monogram