Professional Background

Amitava Dasgupta received his Ph. D in chemistry from Stanford University and completed his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle. He is board certified in both Toxicology and Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Director of Clinical Laboratories at the University of Kansas Hospital. He has published 240 scientific papers, wrote many invited review articles and abstracts edited, co-edited, co-authored and wrote a total of 20 books. He is on the Editorial Board of five journals. He is the recipient of 2009 Irvine Sunshine Award from the International Association for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT) for outstanding contribution in clinical toxicology and in 2010 he received AACC Outstanding contribution to education Award.

• BSc, Bachelor of Science, University of Calcutta, Calcutta
• MS, Analytical Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
• PhD, Organic Chemistry, University of Washington
• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Clinical Chemistry, University of Washington

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Vice President, 2007 - 2009
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Member, 1999 - 2002