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I am a medical doctor (University of Calcutta) who has done PhD in Biomedical Engineering from IT,BHU, Varanasi. I am the Founder and Director of Supten Institute (offering online courses on health informatics) and currently a Visiting Professor in Health Informatics at Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have been the Founding Director of CAL2CAL Institute, a faculty member with the Manipal Group, IIT Kharagpur, Amrita group and PSG group. I had done my Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Machine Intelligence Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. My areas of expertise are in Requirements analysis and management in Healthcare information technology, e-learning; medical journalism and clinical decision support systems.

Location:
India, Coimbatore
Current organization:
Supten Institute
Past organizations:
Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
health informatics, e-learning / education
I am:
Educator/Teacher
Associations:
HL7 India, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, Indian Medical Association, Biomedical Engineering Society of India , Indian Science Congress Association
Languages:
English, Bengali, Hindi
My website links:
https://sites.google.com/site/supten/
Universities:
University Of Calcutta, Banaras Hindu University - Institute of Technology
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