Ritam Chowdhury

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Ritam Chowdhury
BornAugust 1983
New Delhi, India
Alma mater Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (MBBS)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (MPH)
Emory University, Atlanta (PhD)
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (SM)
Known for Epidemiology, biostatistics, translational research, bioinformatics, health economics, outcomes research
Scientific career
Institutions Emory University
Harvard School of Public Health

Ritam Chowdhury (born 1983) is an Indian writer, physician, epidemiologist and biostatistician scientist of Bengali descent. His work in the fields of applied epidemiology, health economics, and outcomes research has contributed towards evidence-based medicine guidelines for oncology, heart disease, diabetes and trauma care. He is the Research Director of Medical Associates for Research and Communication (MARC). He also holds appointments as Visiting Instructor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Global Health Department of Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta and Statistical Consultant for the Instructional Computing Facility at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston. [1]

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Early life

Chowdhury was born into a Bengali zamindar family originally from Kolkata, India. He was born in New Delhi and later moved to Kolkata. In 1993, a few months after the infamous Bombay riots, his family moved to Bombay.

Education

Chowdhury is an alumnus of St. Mary's School (ISC, 1997–1999), Mazagaon, Mumbai and D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science & Commerce (HSC, 1999–2001), Matunga, Mumbai. He graduated with a MBBS degree from Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai at the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nasik in 2005. He worked at Kalyan District Prison, Thane district thereafter as Medical Officer. He was awarded an MPH in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland in 2009, PhD in Epidemiology in 2013 from Emory University, Atlanta and SM in Biostatistics from Harvard School of Public Health in 2015.3 He further completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Economics at CEVR, the Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health- a member of the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, Boston. {https://cevr.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/}.

Chowdhury completed his preliminary surgical training at the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center, Boston. He is currently an interventional radiology resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. {https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/radiology/education/residency/meet-our-residents}


Awards and honors

Chowdhury has received multiple awards in his relatively short career.


Select papers

His full list of scholarly publications can be found at: {https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B4K2LXIAAAAJ&hl=en}

Literary work and hobbies

Chowdhury has also published 14 books under the pseudonym of Thomas R. M. Webbe, crediting Chowdhury as the editor. [2] His stories, based in British India feature notably the exploits of Rito and Gaja. This detective series has been very popular in India. In addition, he has written in other genres of fiction. Chowdhury also recently made his poetry blog, Catharsis, public. [3] He writes poetry under the pseudonym of Ri Tam, three volumes of which have been published. [4]

Chowdhury is a polyglot and speaks 10 languages apart from English. [5]

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