Flat 2B, Aniket Aparments,
27/1A C.I.T. Road, Kolkata-700014
Phone : 033- 2265 1449
Mobile : 09830349787
E-mail : dockdas@gmail.com

Designation
Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology,
School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, IPGMER,
244, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road,
Kolkata-700020

Work Experience

  • Worked as a Senior Resident in the Department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, from 13th January 2001 to 28th June 2002.
  • Worked as a Senior Resident (DM) in the Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciances (SGPGIMS), Lucknow from 1st July 2002 to 30th June 2005.
  • Worked as RMO-cum-Clinical Tutor in the Department of Medical Gastroenterology, IPGME & R, Kolkata from October 2005 to October 2006.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, IPGME & R, Kolkata from Oct 2006 till September 2009.
  • Working as Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, IPGME & R, Kolkata from Sep 2009 till present date.

Academic Profile

  • Passed Indian School Certificate Examination (Plus 2) from Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Calcutta in 1990.
  • Completed MBBS (3rd Professional) from Calcutta University on December 1995.
  • Completed 1 year Rotatory Internship from Medical College, Bengal, Calcutta on December 1996.
  • 8 months of Housemanship in Department of Cardiology, Medical College, Bengal, Calcutta from January to August, 1997.
  • Completed MD in Internal Medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh on December 2000.
  • Postdoctoral thesis under Prof. SK Jindal Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, on “Sociodemographic profile of Tuberculosis patients in India”.
  • Completed DM in Gastroenterology from SGPGIMS, Lucknow on June 2005.
Awards
  • Won the Jagadish Bose National Talent Search Scholarship Award in 1990.
  • Received the Certificate of Merit of J Mitra Memorial Award for the second best original article published in the year 2006 in The Indian Journal of Gastroenterology for “Malabsorption syndrome due to various causes is associated with antroduodenal hypomotility.” Kshaunish Das, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Asha Misra, Uday C Ghoshal. Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
  • Received a British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) travel grant to attend the Annual Conference of BSG, 2008 at Birmingham, UK in Mar 2008
  • Winner of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) Research Fellowship Programme Award 2008, and received training in Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) under Prof Masayuki Kitano and Course Director Masatoshi Kudo at Kinki University, Osaka-sayama, Japan for 3 months from September-November, 2008.
  • Presented an oral paper titled “Patient posture and ileal intubation during colonoscopy” an open-label RCT [NCT01159886] at DDW, 2011 in Chicago, Ill

Publications

  • Role Of Socio-economic Factors in Tuberculosis Prevalence. Dheeraj Gupta, Kshaunish Das, Balamughesh T, Ashutosh N. Aggarwal and Surinder. K. Jindal. Indian J Tuberc 2004; 51: 27-31.
  • Is vaccination against hepatitis A virus required in patients with cirrhosis of the liver? Duseja A, Sharma S, Das K, Dhiman RK, Chawla YK. Trop Gastroenterol. 2004 ;25:162-3. PMID: 15912973
  • Primary gastric lymphoma and Helicobacter pylori infection with Systemic Amyloidosis: A case report. Kshaunish Das, Uday C Ghoshal, Manoj Jain,* Archana Rastogi,* Shridhar Tiwari, Rakesh Pandey*. Departments of Gastroenterology and Pathology*, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India. Ind J Gastroenterol 2005; 24: 220-2. PMID: 16361772
  • Utility of hydrogen breath tests in diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in malabsorption syndrome and its relationship with oro-cecal transit time. Uday C Ghoshal, Ujjala Ghoshal*, Kshaunish Das, Asha Misra Departments of Gastroenterology and *Microbiology. Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India. Indian J Gastroenterol 2006; 25: 6-10. PMID: 16567886
  • Gastroduodenal Dysmotility in Patients with Gall Bladder Carcinoma: Frequency and Clinical Significance. Sanjeev Sachdeva, Uday C Ghoshal, Vivek A Saraswat, Kshaunish Das, Asha Misra. Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road,Lucknow 226014,India. Natl Med J India 2006; 19: 4-9.
  • Malabsorption syndrome due to various causes is associated with antroduodenal hypomotility. Kshaunish Das, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Asha Misra, Uday C Ghoshal. Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, India. Indian J Gastroenterol 2006; 25: 58-61. PMID: 16763331
  • Acute hemorrhagic ascites: look beyond the gastrointestinal tract. Radha Krishna Y, Kshaunish Das, Uday C Ghoshal, Gourdas Choudhuri. Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Indian J Gastroenterol 2007; 26: 189-90. PMID: 17986752
  • Hookworm Infection Presenting as Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Lessons from Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in the tropics. Kshaunish Das, Kaushik Das*, Jayanta Dasgupta, Gopal K Dhali, Abhijit Chowdhury*. Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology*, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, IPGMER, Kolkata, India. Am J Gastroenterol 2008; 105: 1310-1. PMID: 18477359
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of brain in patients with cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. Das K, Singh P*, Chawla Y, Duseja A, Dhiman RK, Suri S*. Departments of Hepatology and Radiodiagnosis and Imaging*, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. Dig Dis Sci. 2008; 53: 2793-8. PMID: 18688722
  • Crohn's disease in India: A multicenter study from a country where tuberculosis is endemic. K Das1, Uday Ghoshal2, Gopal K Dhali1, Jaya Benjamin3, Vineet Ahuja3, Gobind Makharia3. Division of Gastroenterrology, SDLD, IPGMER, Kolkata1, Department of Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow2 and Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, AIIMS, New Delhi3. Dig Dis Sci. 2009 May;54(5):1099-107. Epub 2008 Sep 4. PubMed PMID: 18770037.
  • Antroduodenal manometry: experience from a tertiary care centre. Uday C Ghoshal, Maneesh Paliwal, Kshaunish Das, Surender K Yachha, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Asha Mishra. Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. Ind J Gastroenterol 2008; 27: 53-7. PMID: 18695303
  • (1)H and (31)P NMR studies indicate reduced bile constituents in patients with biliary obstruction and infection. Bala L, Tripathi P, Bhatt G*, Das K*, Roy R, Choudhuri G*, Khetrapal CL. Center for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance and Department of Gastroenterology*, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India. NMR Biomed. 2009 Feb;22(2):220-8. PubMed PMID: 18837066
  • Clinical features and predictors of outcome in acute hepatitis A and hepatitis E virus hepatitis on cirrhosis. Radha Krishna Y, Saraswat VA, Das K, Himangshu G, Yachha SK, Aggarwal R, Choudhuri G. Liver Int. 2009 Mar; 29(3):392-8. PubMed PMID: 19267864
  • EUS-guided in vivo microdialysis of the pancreas: a novel technique with potential diagnostic and therapeutic application. Kitano M, Sakamoto H, Das K, Komaki T, Kudo M. Gastrointest Endosc. 2010 Jan;71(1):176-9. Epub 2009 Oct 20. PubMed PMID: 19846076
  • Nonobese population in a developing country has a high prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver and significant liver disease. Das K, Das K, Mukherjee PS,, Ghosh A, Ghosh S, Mridha AR, Dhibar T, Bhattacharya B, Bhattacharya D, Manna B, Dhali GK, Santra A, Chowdhury A. Hepatology. 2010 May; 51(5):1593-602. Epub 2010 Feb 1. PubMed PMID: 20222092
  • Course of disease and survival after onset of decompensation in hepatitis B virus-related cirrhosis. Das K, Das K, Datta S, Pal S, Hembram JR, Dhali GK, Santra A, Chowdhury A. Liver Int. 2010 May 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20492502
  • Obscure GI bleeding in the tropics: impact of introduction of double-balloon and capsule endoscopies on outcome. Das K, Sarkar R, Dasgupta J, Ray S, Ghatak S, Das K, Mridha AR, Dhali GK, Chowdhury A. Gastrointest Endosc. 2010 Jun 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20541203
  • "Normal" alanine aminotransferase and Christopher Boorse. Das K. Hepatology. 2010 Apr 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20568302
  • Pancreatic ductal drainage by endoscopic ultrasound-assisted rendezvous technique for pain caused by ductal stricture with chronic pancreatitis. Das K, Kitano M, Komaki T, Sakamoto H, Noda K, Suetomi Y, Kudo M. Dig Endosc. 2010 Jul;22(3):217-9. PubMed PMID: 20642612
  • Ghoshal UC, Lakshmi CP, Kumar S, Das K, Misra A, Rai P, Mohindra S, Saraswat VA, Kumar A, Choudhuri G. Capsule endoscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding in the tropics: report from India. Dig Endosc. 2011 Jan;23(1):17-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.01035.x. Epub 2010 Nov 30. PubMed PMID: 21198912.
  • Ghatak S, Ray S, Sanyal S, Sonar PK, Khamrui S, Basu K, Ray S, Das K. An unusual cause of acute abdomen in adults: giant cystic lymphangioma of the pancreatic head. A clinical case and literature review. JOP. 2011 May 6; 12(3):266-70. PubMed PMID: 21546706.
  • Choudhuri G, Chetri K, Bhat G, Alexander G, Das K, Ghoshal UC, Das K, Chandra P. Long-term efficacy and safety of N-butylcyanoacrylate in endoscopic treatment of gastric varices. Trop Gastroenterol. 2010 Jul-Sep;31(3):155-64. PubMed PMID: 21560518.
  • Ray S, Das K, Mridha AR, Khamrui S. Neurofibroma of the common bile duct: a rare cause of obstructive jaundice. Am J Surg. 2011 Jul;202(1):e1-3. PubMed PMID: 21741514. 
Projects (Ongoing)
  • “Th1 and Th2 paradigm in pancreatic fibrosis: an in vivo study in mice” sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, India in October 2009
  • “Genetics of Gastric cancer”- a multicenter study submitted to ICMR, India
  • “GWAs study of CP in India” – a multicenter study sanctioned by DBT, India in Aug 2011
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