Community Medicine
MR. AMITAV BANERJEE
Date of Birth: 12 Aug 1954
Qualification: Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Dr D Y Patil Medical College, Pune,
E-mail: amitav.banerjee@dpu.edu.in; amitavb@gmail.com
Contact no.: 9372434017
Qualifications - Academic :
- MBBS – Government Medical College, Jabalpur University Year 1977
- MD (PSM) – AFMC, Pune University 1987
- Post Doctoral Clinical Epidemiology – International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), King George Medical College, Lucknow, 1994 – 99
Professional Experience:
- Served in Indian Armed Forces from 1978 to 2005.
- After taking premature retirement from the Armed Forces in 2005,
- Working as Professor and subsequently as Head at Department of Community Medicine, Dr D Y Patil Medical College, Pune.
Achievements:
- Chief of Army Staff Gold Medal for best paper “Impact of Information Technology on Armed Forces.” In the year 1996, while serving as instructor at Officers Training School, Lucknow.
- Director General Armed Forces Medical Services award for best paper on Tribal Malaria in the year 2003, while serving at AFMC Pune.
- Best published paper award Medical Journal Armed Forces India for “Outbreak investigation of Viral Hepatitis E” in the year 2005 while serving at AFMC Pune.
- Has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed National and International Journals, and undertaken a number of funded research projects.
- Citations 871; h index 14; i-10 index 20 (as on 30 July 2018):
- He is reviewer for a number of reputed International Journals such as the Oxford Group of Journals, Vaccine and the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ).
- Is Editor in Chief, Medical Journal Dr D Y Patil University, Pune.
- He has also delivered keynote addresses in national and international conferences, in India and abroad.
- Is research and publications adviser, Surindra Rajabhat University, Thailand.
- One of his published papers on “Population and Samples” is being used as reading material in one of the Research Methods Courses being conducted at Stanford University. The same can be accessed from Website of the course at Stanford University at the following link:
- Awarded Publons Peer Review Award 2017 as one of the top 1% peer reviewers globally (Global rank 68; Indian Rank 6)
