Dr. Amitava Dasgupta - Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas

Dr. Dasgupta received his PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University and completed his fellowship in Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology from University of Washington School of Medicine. He is board certified in both Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology from the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston. He is also the Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory of Memorial-Hermann Hospital at the Texas Medical Center, the major teaching hospital of University of Texas-Houston Medical School. He has published 175 papers in peer reviewed journals, many book chapters, monographs and abstracts. In addition he also edited three books and co-edited another book with Professor Catherine Hammett-Stabler of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Dasgupta is currently serves on the editorial board of five international medical journals including American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.