Department of Pathology

The Pathology department of the Institute is having the following divisions

Histopathology, Cyto pathology, Hematology, clinical pathology and Blood Bank. The Clinical pathology division is functioning in the Central Composite Laboratory of the Institute. The blood bank is a licensed one and has component separation facility. The department is equipped with various sophisticated equipments which include Cryostat for frozen section biopsy, automatic tissue processor, Cyto spin, 5 part haematology analyser, Capillary electrophoresis etc.

The present staffs of the department consist of the following members

Professor—Dr. R. N Choubey(prof. Blood bank)

Associate professor- Dr.S. A. Seikh, Dr Monoj Kumar Deka

Assistant Professor-Dr.S. Dowerah,dr. B.J.Dewri,Dr. R.Biswas, dr. S. Data gupta

Demonstrator- Dr. T. Narjari,Dr. A. Debnath,Dr. A. Sinha,Dr. S. Singh, Dr. S. K. Bhattacharjee, Dr. Subhadip Bhattacharjee, Dr. A. Phukan

Resident Pathologist - Dr. A. Das

Academics:

The department runs Both UG and PG courses . The annual intake of student in MD course in the subject is 7(seven) and recognised by MCI. In addition there is also Diploma course in Medical laboratory Technology. The staff members are actively involved in research works and publish research papers on regular basis. The NCRP (ICMR) research project entitled “Population based Cancer registry- Cachar district” is located in the department and Professor S. Chakravarty, Vice Principal is the Principal Investigator of the project.Dr. M . Naiding, Associate professor of the department is the incharge of the Medical Research Unit(MRU) established under ICMR. The department organises CME, workshops and regional conferences from time to time.

At present Dr. R. N. Choubey is the professor and head of the department.