Prof. Prantar Chakrabarti
Chief Medical Director
“Prof(Dr.) Prantar Chakrabarti was working as the Professor and Head of Department of Hematology at NRS Medical College Kolkata till he decided to leave his job in July 2019 and try to develop cybernetic care. He is a graduate from the oldest medical college in Asia i.e. Medical College, Kolkata and then pursued an MD in Medicine from the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER) Kolkata , DNB in Internal Medicine and Post Doctoral DM in Clinical Hematology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Prior to joining NRS Medical College, he was instrumental in setting up and developing The Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at Medical College Kolkata -a designated center of excellence. After joining NRS Medical College as a professor in 2014 he shouldered additional responsibilities as the Nodal officer of the Multidisciplinary Research Unit (MRU) and was the Principal Investigator of the DBT NIDAN center of excellence in genetics.
He was also the Nodal Officer of National Knowledge Network (NKN) under the auspices of NIC. He was also a Subject Expert in HaematoOncology Subject Expert Committee, CDSCO, Government of India, and was the Nodal Officer of the State Thalassemia Control Programme, Government of West Bengal. He was actively involved in designing and validating a point-of-care non-invasive diagnostic device called AJO, which can detect the hemoglobin, bilirubin, and oxygen saturation levels in blood just by shining light into the human eye. Right now, he is working with Zoho Corporation, Tenkasi, to develop an accessible and affordable rural healthcare delivery model. His present assignment is to commission a tertiary care hospital at Chennai on behalf of Sugah Healthcorp as the Chief Medical Director. He is also a visiting professor at the School of Public Health at Sri Sri University, Cuttack. He has also worked as a Senior Consultant, Research & Training, Center for Digital Health Care Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal and has been a founder of Cybernetic Care. As a part of his outreach activities, he acts as a mentor for Rotary Life Beyond Cancer and the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Care Team at ICMRCentre for Research, Management and Control of Haemoglobinopathies at Chandrapur, Maharashtra. He also works with a global charity effort Hemogobal® at Canada and Sri Lanka. He is the Mentor for Rotary Life Beyond Cancer Dist 3291. His passion is to build a team of dedicated healthcare providers who will provide quality and affordable care, with significant outreach and community participation, utilizing data science and artificial intelligence through effective leadership and communication skills.
Website: www.prantar.in Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prantarchakrabarti/
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prantar_Chakrabarti
Research Interestscore: 505.4
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UPOgvB8AAAAJh index: 20 i10-index: 33X: @prantar”