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Chitta Ranjan Chowdhury

Biography

Professor Chitta Ranjan CHOWDHURY, after completing his undergraduate qualification in Dentistry (1980), did a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Nutrition & Dietetics from Dhaka University (1982). He is trained in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Okayama University Dental School Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Japan. In 1991, he was awarded with a PhD from Asahi University School of Dentistry Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Japan, and his research for thesis was on Oral Cancer Epidemiology and Immunology. He investigated the immune status of oral cancer patients with relation to retinol, alpha-tocopherol and zinc, and first quantified zinc therapy to restore immunity in them. He did his postdoctoral training (in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery) and completed a research with a prestigious grant from Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS). He performed a series of molecular studies on oral cancer in collaboration with his Japanese colleagues and investigated the mutations and deletions of identified tumor suppressor genes in chewing tobacco related oral cancer. He did his Masters in Public Health Science (MPH) from School of Community Medicine of the University of Manchester. He also finished his fellowship training and completed the exam for FFD RCS in Oral Surgery with Oral Medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He entered in the specialist listing of oral surgeons with the General Dental Council of the UK, and selected as one of the examiners (for MJDF) of Royal College of Surgeons of England. Chitta has successfully been offered with the grants from Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Japan Society for Promotion of Science(JSPS), and Osaka Dental University (ODU) Japan, and Poole-Bournemouth –PCT (pb-PCT), UK. Professor Chowdhury has been appointed with a role to help promote research, education and training within the Postgraduate Dental Studies of Medical School under the University of Warwick, UK. He is involved in Research and Educational Development of Postgraduate Dental studies of Warwick Medical School, and rightly working on new courses and operational research linking with Indian and Japanese University faculties. He is also the Director, and coordinating the research and training in Tropical Oral Health in the UK, which is linked with identified tropical countries in Asia and Africa. He has extensive clinical experience in general dentistry of 25 years duration, and specialized practice in oral surgery both in developing and developed countries---specifically in India, Bangladesh, Japan and the UK. Apart from hospital practice, he ran his own surgeries, where he performed the clinical procedures independently, also involved to train the junior dentists, dental/medical students and allied health professionals in the countries. He developed a primary care services for the underserved patients/community, and that is based on the concept of Community/patient involvement for health development. He has teaching experience (PBL, LBS, CBL etc) of 21 years’ duration in oral surgery, general dental practice, and public health Dentistry. He teaches oral cancer, systemic diseases of oral health concern, law-ethics, infection/cross-infection control, Oral AIDS, health and safety, practice management and clinical leadership, therapeutics, conscious sedation and pain control, research methods, epidemiology and evidence based dentistry. He runs the Department of Oral Biology and Genomic Studies at Nitte University Dental School (ABSMIDS), Mangalore, India, where he also an academic clinical faculty in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. He published many useful researches on oral cancer prevention, and wrote books, of them “Handbook of Oral Cancer Screening and Education- A Guideline Protocol” (BDJ review http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v210/n9/full/sj.bdj.2011.380.html ); and “What You Need to do When Oral Cancer and Pre- Cancer is Suspected” are worth mentioning. This year he published another book “Essentials of Health Research – A Guide for Beginners”. Chitta is a humanitarian and likes nature- wild-lives, philharmonic orchestra, documentaries-literatures---he cognizes dialectics of materialism and the Universal religion of mankind.

Research Interest

Nutrition & Dietetics of oral cancer, In Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Dentistry.

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