Dr. Amit Kumar Kalwar

Silchar Medical College and Hospital, India

Dr. Amit Kumar Kalwar passed MBBS in 2001, worked as Junior Resident in the Department of Psychiatry for one year, and completed MD in Internal Medicine in 2007. He is presently working as Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Silchar Medical College and is also in-charge of medicine ICU and Dialysis Unit.

He is the Scientific Secretary of Associations of Physicians of India (API), Assam Chapter, Silchar Branch and of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Cachar Branch. He is the Joint Secretary of API Assam Branch and East Zone API. He is the Executive Body member of IMA, State Chapter, Assam. He is the Convenor of North East Initiative Program of API, India. He is also a member of State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel of National AIDS Control Program of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

He is trained in Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Disaster Management. He is the co-principal investigator of different research projects of Medical Education Unit of Silchar Medical College. He is also the co-principal investigator in Population Based Stroke Registry under Indian Council of Medical Research. He is the editor and author in different medical books and published articles in journals as listed below:

Editor:

• Editorial board member- Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol. 20, 2017
• Editorial board member- Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol. 22, 2019

• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol. 16, 2013.
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol.20, 2017.
• Pulmonary Embolism- Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management, Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol. 21, 2018.
• Approach to a Patient with Peripheral Neuropathy, Progress in Medicine, API India, Vol. 30, 2019.
• Approach to An Acute Exanthematous Fever, Medicine Update, API Assam Chapter, Vol. 22, 2019.
• Social Medicine: Social Distance and Mobility, Medicine Update, API India, Vol. 30,2020.
• α- adrenergic Antagonists in Hypertension, Drug & Therapeutics, Hypertension- An Evidence Based Treatise for Clinicians, First edition, 2022.
• Antibiotics- an integrated approach (CMV, VZV, HSV), Tropical Fever (to be published)

• Bhattachrajee P, Das D, Nath BK, Kalwar A. A Case of Tuberous Sclerosis Presenting with Childhood Seizures. Assam Journal of Internal Medicine; Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2012; Page:41-42.
• Das D, Bhattacharjee K, Kalwar AK, Debnath B. “A Case Series on Fish Bile Toxicity”. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare; Volume 2, Issue 33, August 17,2015; Page: 5073-5076.
• Bhattacharjee K, Das D, Kalwar AK, Debnath B, Kar G. “Relationship of Hyponatrimia with Immediate Mortality in Acute Stroke”. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare; Volume 2, Issue 38, September 21,2015; Page: 6119-6124.
• Bhattacharjee K, Das D, Rabha P, Kalwar AK, Kar G, Bhattachrajee P. “A study of Haematological Profile in Patients of Chronic Renal Failure with Special Reference to Serum Iron Profile”. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare; Volume 2, Issue 46, November 09, 2015; Page: 8212-8219.
• Das D, Bhattacharjee K, Piyush A, Kalwar AK, Kar G, Bhattachrajee P. Glimpse into the Hidden Aspects of Urinary Tract Infection in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Prostatomegaly. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2016; 3(13), 433-438.