Amitav Banerjee

Dr. Amitav Banerjee was born in Dehradun (then in Uttar Pradesh), now Uttarakhand, India on 12th August, 1954. He did his schooling at St. Aloysius School, Jabalpur. After high school, he attended Robertson Science College in Jabalpur for a year.
Subsequently he pursued his undergraduate medical education from Govt. Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. He graduated in 1977 and completed his internship in 1978. After this he worked for a brief period in the Department of Anaesthesiology.
==Medical Career==
He joined the Indian Armed Forces in 1978. He first worked as a medical officer and as adhoc anesthesiologist for few years in various parts of India. He did his postgraduate studies and acquired an MD in Preventive and Social Medicine while in military service at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1987. He subsequently served as an epidemiologist in the Indian Armed Forces. While in service, he got study leave to pursue a fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology under the International Clinical Epidemiological Network (INCLEN), at the King George Medical College, Lucknow, in the year 1994. He was associated with the INCLEN unit from 1994 to 1999. From 1995 to 1999 he was instructor in Military Medicine at the Officers Training School, at Lucknow. 
During his tenure at the Officers Training School he was awarded the Chief of Army Staff Gold Medal for his essay on Impact of Information Highway on Military Command Styles and Structures. 
After his stint at Officers Training School, he was posted to a tribal area in Central India which was experiencing very high transmission of falciparum malaria. He worked out the epidemiology of Tribal Malaria during this tenure for which he was awarded the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services Silver Medal in the year 2002. 
He was subsequently posted as Reader in the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in the year 2000. From 2000 to 2004 he headed the Mobile Epidemic Investigation Team of the Indian Armed Forces. In this capacity he investigated epidemics of Pneumonia, Viral Hepatitis, typhoid, food poisoning, and rubella in different parts of India. He was awarded for his investigation of viral hepatitis E during this period. 
Dr Banerjee took voluntary retirement from the Indian Armed Forces in 2005. He has been teaching in the Department of Community Medicine at Dr. DY Patil Medical College in Pune since then. He took over as the Head of the Department in 2016. 
==Editor In Chief==
Dr Amitav Banerjee is also Editor in Chief of the Medical Journal of Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth since 2012. The journal is indexed with number of indexing bodies and databases including SCOPUS, DOAJ, etc. The journal has an International Editorial Board and has reached out to over 4000 reviewers from over 80 countries in the past 10 years. About 10% of articles in the journal are from overseas authors.
Dr. Banerjee is also a highly sought-after reviewer around the world. He got the Publons award for being among the top 1% reviewers at global level in the years 2016 and 2017.
===National Herald===
Dr. Banerjee had written a number of expert views and columns in National Herald, some worth mentioning are Expert View: The Pandemic of Panic caused by overwhelming numbers, not lethality of the virus, Second thoughts on mass vaccination, Covid-19 data suggest there is a strong case for re-opening schools, Expert View: The art of war against the wily Coronavirus, The science and the art of living with Covid-19, Mysterious ‘fever’ a bigger challenge than Covid, Good science also needs a thriving democracy, Public Health: Doctors losing out to pharma & tech companies, Global response to COVID-19 pandemic has been amateurish; complex issues need many thinking hats, Conflicting claims on efficacy of masks, The parable of King Corona has lessons for the pandemic's progress, Data vs Models: Trust what you like!, Covid-19: What explains the sudden deaths?, Covid 19 pandemic as imagined by armchair generals and amateur docs. 
===Scholarly Articles and Publications===
Dr. Banerjee has conducted numerous research projects and has over 250 national and international publications to his name. Some of the academic publications are accessible through Google Scholar.
Panel, Interviews, columns, and other content for the media can be accessed at https://amitavb.wixsite.com/amitav-banerjee/post/views-and-deliberations-on-covid-19
==Family Life==
Dr Amitav Banerjee married Ms Taposi Chatterjee in the year 1983. They have two children Ankan and Anubha.
Category:1954 births
Category:People from Dehradun