Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System

Professor Siddhartha Datta Gupta (MBBS, DCP, MD, FICPath, FIMSA, FAMS) was trained in clinical pathology from Bangalore Medical College and did his postgraduation from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He is trained in liver pathology including liver transplant pathology as a British Council Study Fellow at the Royal Free Hospital & School of Medicine, London. Currently having superannuated, he served as Professor and one of the Deans at AIIMS, New Delhi. He also worked as a faculty member at St Johns Medical College, Bangalore, and as Professor and Head at the Asian Institute of Medical, Science, and Technology (AIMST) University, Malaysia. His areas of interest include liver and gastrointestinal pathology having worked in areas of acute and chronic hepatitis, chronic gastritis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, to name a few. With an experience of over 35 years as a teacher, he has mentored several generations of students. He has been involved in the development of the pathology curriculum for both undergraduate and postgraduates. He has been a member of international and national committees related to nomenclature of acute and subacute liver failure, celiac disease, hepatocellular carcinoma in India, and consensus statement of acute liver failure. He has served as an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, Hepatitis B Annual, Indian Journal of Laboratory Medicine and is an associate editor for the Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology . He has published over 340 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals and has contributed chapters in textbooks and monographs.

Dr Kaushik Majumdar (MD, DNB, MNAMS, DipRCPath) is currently working asSpecialist Pathology in Al Sabah Hospital, Kuwait. He has done MD in pathology from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has also earned the Diplomate of National Board (DNB) in pathology and Diplomate of Royal College of Pathology (DipRCPath), UK. He has around 80 publications in national and international indexed journals and one book chapter. He has delivered many invited talks and received awards in national and international conferences. He has around 15 years of experience in anatomic and clinical pathology, along with experience as faculty in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. His principal areas of interest include gastrointestinal pathology, liver pathology, and pancreatico-biliary pathology. He is a reviewer of many prestigious national and international journals. He had also been a reviewer of postgraduate thesis and had been an examiner in pathology in prestigious institutes in India.