About Dr.Ashok Kumar

Dr.Ashok Kumar is a distinguished endocrinologist dealing with various hormone disorder,diabetes and thyroid, he bring with him more than 12 years of overall clinical experience. He has done his DM – Endocrinology degree(adult and pediatric ) from prestigious IPGMER/SSKM hospital Kolkata the largest endocrinology teaching centre in eastern India and was university gold medallist in DM exams, Dr. Kumar is certified endocrinologist from Royal College of Physicians, MRCP (UK) by completing his SCE(speciality certificate examination) in endocrinology and Diabetes.

Dr. Kumar has a wide experience of treating endocrine conditions and diabetes and working with the aim of holistic diabetes and endocrine care for all strata of the society.

Carrier Objectives:-

1).Patient centred practice of endocrine and diabetes with best available Evidence based medicine.

2).To establish holistic diabetes care clinic.

Field of interest

1) Diabetes (type 1 and type 2 DM),GDM(gestational diabetes)

2) Thyroid,Hirsutism& PCOS

3) Short Stature & Pediatric Endocrinology

Languages spoken :

Hindi, English, Bengali, Punjabi, Haryanavi , Telugu, Rajasthani

Presentations

1) Actively participated and successfully completed the type 1 diabetes care and management fellow conference conducted by the Endocrine Society USA at San Diego, CA ,USA from March 2,3 2015

2) Attended ENDO 2015 the annual conference of endocrine society of USA held at San Diego, CA, USA.

3) Actively participated and completed workshop on GCP-ICH (good clinical practice –international conference on harmonisation) of clinical research in May 2017 held at Kolkata.

4) Gold medal for oral presentation in Endo update 2016 august 2017 on “inferior petrosal sinus sampling- our early experiences and limitations “ held at Kolkata.

5) Poster presentation in endo update 2016 august 2017 on “Giant Prolactinoma in childhood presenting with blindness a case report “ held at Kolkata.

6) E- Poster presentation in 45th annual conference of ESI – ESICON 2015 Ahmedabad on “BIPSS our early IPGMER experience “ held at Kolkata.

7) Oral presentation in ITSCON2015 the annual conference of Indian Thyroid Society “Lymphoma Presenting as A Rapidly Enlarging Thyroid Mass with thyrotoxicosis “ held at Kolkata.

8) Paper presentation at 46th annual conference of ESI – ESICON 2016 Delhi on “Graves’ disease in Down’s syndrome –report of two cases “

Academic membership

Life member of Endocrine society of India (ESI) ,Indian Society of Pediatric and adolescent Endocrinology (ISPAE), member of EASD(European association of study in diabetes) , member of APPES ( Asia Pacific Pediatric Endocrine Society)