Date:27/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/27/stories/2008122757301800.htm

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Indian-American doctor honoured

WASHINGTON: Indian-American doctor Tapan Thakur is among the top 10 hospitalists of the United States, according to a list published in the Hospitalist Journal of the American College of Physicians.

Hospitalists are internal medicine physicians, who specialise in acute care medicine and provide care to patients in hospitals.

Dr. Thakur, a medical graduate from the Patna Medical College, is now Medical Director for Midsouth Hospitalists and vice-president of Medical Staff at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Southaven, Mississippi.

He is also the President of Memphis Chapter of Society of Hospital Medicine. After graduating in 1991, Dr. Thakur moved to England in 1993 and completed his two year residency in the Wrexham Maellor Hospital in Wales and in cardiothoracic centre in Liverpool before moving to the U.S. In 1995, he joined St. Mary’s internal medicine residency programme and was chief resident of his programme in 1998 when he moved to Memphis and has been practising internist.

The Hospitalist Journal list is prepared after evaluation of physicians for their contributions in teaching, quality improvement, research, cost saving, patient safety and leadership.

The other physicians who have made it to the list of top ten are from Beth Israel Deaconess medical Center, New York University, University of California Los Angeles, Case Western Reserve University and other major centres. The Journal has also published a list of “Honor Roll.” It includes the names of Indian-American doctors Sanjay Dabral of Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, Alpesh Amin of University of California Irvine, California, Piyush Tiwary of University of Arizona and Sanjay Bharti of Monogalia General hospital, Morgantown. — PTI