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Ritam Chowdhury
BornAugust 1983
New Delhi, India
Alma materLokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (MBBS)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (MPH)
Emory University, Atlanta (PhD)
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (SM)
Known forEpidemiology, biostatistics, translational research, bioinformatics, health economics, outcomes research
Scientific career
InstitutionsEmory University
Harvard School of Public Health

Ritam Chowdhury (born 1983) is an Indian writer, physician, epidemiologist and biostatistician scientist of Bengali descent. His work in the fields of applied epidemiology, health economics, and outcomes research has contributed towards evidence-based medicine guidelines for oncology, heart disease, diabetes and trauma care. He is the Research Director of Medical Associates for Research and Communication (MARC). He also holds appointments as Visiting Instructor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Global Health Department of Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta and Statistical Consultant for the Instructional Computing Facility at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston.[1]

Early life

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Chowdhury was born into a Bengali zamindar family originally from Kolkata, India. He was born in New Delhi and later moved to Kolkata. In 1993, a few months after the infamous Bombay riots, his family moved to Bombay.

Education

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Chowdhury is an alumnus of St. Mary's School (ISC, 1997–1999), Mazagaon, Mumbai and D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science & Commerce (HSC, 1999–2001), Matunga, Mumbai. He graduated with a MBBS degree from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai at the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nasik in 2005. He worked at Kalyan District Prison, Thane district thereafter as Medical Officer. He was awarded an MPH in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland in 2009, PhD in Epidemiology in 2013 from Emory University, Atlanta and SM in Biostatistics from Harvard School of Public Health in 2015.3 He further completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Economics at CEVR, the Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health- a member of the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, Boston. {https://cevr.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/}.

Chowdhury completed his preliminary surgical training at the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center, Boston. He is currently an interventional radiology resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. {https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/radiology/education/residency/meet-our-residents}


Awards and honors

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Chowdhury has received multiple awards in his relatively short career.

  • 1999 Ebrahim M. Rowjee Scholarship
  • 1999 Board Topper Mathematics – Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE)
  • 2001 Placed on the Maharashtra State Higher Secondary Certificate Board Examinations Merit List
  • 2002 Distinction in Anatomy
  • 2002 Distinction in Biochemistry
  • 2002 Distinction in Physiology
  • 2002 – 2003 Sir Ratan Tata Scholarship
  • 2003 Distinction in Microbiology
  • 2003 Distinction in Pathology
  • 2003–2005 JRD Tata Scholarship
  • 2008 – 2009 Sir Ratan Tata Scholarship
  • 2008 – 2009 J. N. Tata Scholarship
  • In May 2009, Chowdhury was inducted into the prestigious Delta Omega Society, Alpha Chapter.


Select papers

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  • Alvarez, J. A.; Chowdhury, R; Jones, D. P.; Martin, G. S.; Brigham, K. L.; Binongo, J. N.; Ziegler, T. R.; Tangpricha, V (2014). "Vitamin D status is independently associated with plasma glutathione and cysteine thiol/disulphide redox status in adults". Clinical Endocrinology. 81 (3): 458–66. doi:10.1111/cen.12449. PMC 4115025. PMID 24628365.
  • Roy, N; Murlidhar, V; Chowdhury, R; Patil, S. B.; Supe, P. A.; Vaishnav, P. D.; Vatkar, A (2010). "Where there are no emergency medical services-prehospital care for the injured in Mumbai, India". Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 25 (2): 145–51. doi:10.1017/s1049023x00007883. PMID 20467994. S2CID 18197745.


Chowdhury, Ritam1,2,; Shah, Divyang3; Payal, Abhishek R.4. Healthy Worker Effect Phenomenon: Revisited with Emphasis on Statistical Methods – A Review. Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 21(1):p 2-8, Jan–Apr 2017. | DOI: 10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_53_16

Chaudhary MA, Schoenfeld AJ, Harlow AF, et al. Incidence and Predictors of Opioid Prescription at Discharge After Traumatic Injury. JAMA Surg. 2017;152(10):930–936. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2017.1685

Goyal, A., Terry, P.D., Superak, H.M. et al. Melatonin supplementation to treat the metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. Diabetol Metab Syndr 6, 124 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-6-124

Lindsey L. Wolf, Ritam Chowdhury, Jefferson Tweed, Lori Vinson, Elena Losina, Adil H. Haider, Faisal G. Qureshi, Factors Associated with Pediatric Mortality from Motor Vehicle Crashes in the United States: A State-Based Analysis, The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 187, 2017, Pages 295-302.e3, ISSN 0022-3476, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.04.044. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022347617305917)


Vinod H. Thourani, Ritam Chowdhury, Rebecca L. Gunter, Patrick D. Kilgo, Edward P. Chen, John D. Puskas, Michael E. Halkos, Omar M. Lattouf, William A. Cooper, Robert A. Guyton, The Impact of Specific Preoperative Organ Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Volume 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 838-845, ISSN 0003-4975, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.09.035. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000349751202125X)

Ritam Chowdhury, Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Lyndsey Darrow, William McClellan, Kyle Steenland, Mortality among participants in a lead surveillance program, Environmental Research, Volume 132, 2014, Pages 100-104, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2014.03.008. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935114000541)



His full list of scholarly publications can be found at: {https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B4K2LXIAAAAJ&hl=en}

Literary work and hobbies

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Chowdhury has also published 14 books under the pseudonym of Thomas R. M. Webbe, crediting Chowdhury as the editor.[2] His stories, based in British India feature notably the exploits of Rito and Gaja. This detective series has been very popular in India. In addition, he has written in other genres of fiction. Chowdhury also recently made his poetry blog, Catharsis, public.[3] He writes poetry under the pseudonym of Ri Tam, three volumes of which have been published.[4]

Chowdhury is a polyglot and speaks 10 languages apart from English.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "New Staff Addition: Ritam Chowdhury". 18 November 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Thomas R. M. Webbe: Books, Biography, Blog". Amazon. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Catharsis". Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  4. ^ March 2015 https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ARi%2BTam&s=relevancerank&text=Ri+Tam&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1/accessdate=27 March 2015. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ March 2015 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritam01/accessdate=27 March 2015. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
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