Santanu Kumar Tripathi MBBS, MD, DM

Dr. Santanu K Tripathi is a Professor and Head of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata. His academic qualifications are MBBS, MD (Pharmacology), and DM (Clinical Pharmacology). He is having teaching experience of 27 years with sixty research and review articles Publications in National & International journals and also authored/edited/ contributed to a chapter in ten (10) books.

He is MCI Assessor for UG and PG (MD Pharmacology) courses in India, Coordinator-Investigator, Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre (AMC) at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata under Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PPI), Government of India. He is National Faculty on Medication Management, National Initiative in Patient Safety (NIPS), Govt of India, Member-Secretary, West Bengal Task Force on Morphine Availability, President, India Society for Study of Pain (ISSP), West Bengal Chapter, Member of the Post Graduate Council, University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, Member / Chair, Clinical Research Ethics Committee of several institutions in Kolkata.

His major areas of research interest are Clinical research management and ethics in clinical research, Pharmacovigilance, patient safety, and medication management, Rational use of medicines and people’s access to essential medicines, Pain and palliative care, Innovations in health and medical education, training and capacity building activities.