Sandipan Dhar MBBS, MD, DNB, FRCP

Dr. Sandipan Dhar is a Professor and Head, of the Department of Pediatric Dermatology, Institute of Child Health in Kolkata. Dr.Sandipan Dhar, MBBS, MD, DNB, FRCP is a renowned Pediatric Dermatologist and Atopic Dermatitis researcher of National & International repute. His qualifications: MBBS, MD(Dermatology), DNB, FRCP (Edin.). Dr. Dhar has so far published more than 230 scientific papers in various national & international journals of which more than 120 papers are on Paediatric Dermatology and 50 papers on Atopic Dermatitis. His papers have been abstracted and quoted in Year Books of Dermatology, and various standard textbooks of Dermatology & Paediatric Dermatology. He has authored “Colour atlas and synopsis of Paediatric Dermatology”, the first book On Pediatric Dermatology from India. He has authored five more books on Dermatology for practicing dermatologists, postgraduate students, and internists. He is the former editor of the Indian Journal of Dermatology, Editor-in-chief, of the Indian Journal of Pediatric Dermatology( IJPD), and a member of the editorial board of several journals in Dermatology and Paediatric Dermatology. He delivered the most prestigious Oration of the Indian Association Of Dermatologists Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL), Dr. B M Ambady Oration on his work on Atopic Dermatitis at the 32nd National Conference of IADVL at Bangalore in January 2009. 

His fields of interest are Paediatric Dermatology, Atopic Dermatitis, Urticaria, and Adverse cutaneous drug eruptions. He is one of the key persons in establishing the subspeciality ’ Pediatric Dermatology’ in India and is currently the President of the Indian Society For Pediatric Dermatology(ISPD) & Editor–in–Chief of the Indian Journal of Pediatric Dermatology( IJPD). He has delivered several lectures on Pediatric Dermatology & Atopic Dermatitis in India and abroad.