User:Supten Sarbadhikari

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I am a medical doctor who has done Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering from IT-BHU. I enjoy Editing here (since November 04, 2006) and being a Citizen! Presently Founder and Director of Supten Institute. My Research interests include Automated Clinical Diagnostic Systems and e-learning. My homepages are: [1], [2] and [3]. I am also the Chair and Chair, Education Committee of HL7 India.

I have been among the first wave of Editors invited to join Citizendium. Subsequently, I have been the first Secretary and the second Chair of the Editorial Council.

Specializations

• Medical Informatics
• Automated Diagnostic Systems
• Cognitive and Affective Disorders
• Exercise physiology
• Neurophysiology
• Soft computing tools
• India

Some articles started in Citizendium

•  Clinical decision support system: Interactive computer programs that directly assist physicians and other health professionals with decision-making tasks. ^[e]
•  Evidence-based medicine: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ^[e]
•  Hemispheric lateralization: The (primary) localization of a brain function on either the right or left sides of the brain. ^[e]
•  John Snow (physician): (1813 – 1858) British physician who is considered to be one of the founders of epidemiology for his work identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1854; also one of the pioneers of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. ^[e]
•  Biochemistry: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. ^[e]
•  Bioengineering: The application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical, nuclear and other engineering principles to understand, modify and control biological (plants and animals - including human) systems. ^[e]
•  Antarctica: The Earth's southernmost continent, located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle; covers the South Pole. ^[e]
•  Electronic medical record: A digital form of medical (hospital or clinic) record. ^[e]
•  Clinical data warehouse: A facility that houses all electronic data collected at a clinical center. ^[e]
•  Bangla: An Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ^[e]
•  Samosa: Dish made from processed potatoes (occasionally along with cauliflower) that have been put inside a near-pyramidal shaped covering of flour dough and deep-fried. ^[e]
•  Rabindra Jayanti: A feast celebrated in India (especially West Bengal) and Bangladesh to commemorate the birth anniversary of the poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. ^[e]
•  Rabindranath Tagore: (1861-1941) Bengali poet and composer; Nobel Prize for Literature 1913. ^[e]
•  Pierre de Coubertin: (1863 – 1937) founder of the modern Olympic movement. ^[e]
•  William Osler: physician, educator, medical philosopher, and historian from Canada, often called the Father of Modern Medicine. ^[e]
•  Joseph Fourier: was a French mathematician and physicist credited with describing the Fourier series based on which the Fourier transform has been formed. ^[e]
•  Netiquette: is the convention for making online interactions efficient and sociable. ^[e]
•  Digha: is a flat hard sea beach in West Bengal, India. ^[e]
•  Google Chrome: Open source web browser created by Google. ^[e]
•  Cell division: The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. ^[e]
•  Electroencephalography: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
•  Flight (biology): Aerial locomotion by living organisms. ^[e]
•  Calcium: The chemical element with the symbol Ca and atomic number 20. ^[e]
•  Holistic living: The concept of simple and spiritual living with moderation in food intake, adequate exercise and positive thinking and attitude to life. ^[e]
•  Bangladesh genocide: the systematic mass killings that resulted in the secession of East Pakistan to form Bangladesh in 1971. ^[e]
•  Thought: An idea or the act of thinking. ^[e]
•  Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) A Russian author, often called the "greatest of all novelists"; wrote War and Peace. ^[e]
•  Raita: is an Indian sauce based on yogurt and cucumber or other vegetables. ^[e]
•  International Mother Language Day: The International Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. ^[e]
•  Alappuzha: is a tourist spot in south India ^[e]

Some recent publications

• S N Sarbadhikari (2010), How to Make Healthcare Delivery in India More “Informed”, Education for Health 10 (online), 2010: 456. [4]
• S N Sarbadhikari (2010), A farce called the National Board of Examinations, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.2010 Jan-Mar;7(1):20-22 PubMed [5].
• S N Sarbadhikari (2008), Applying healthcare informatics to improve student learning, Medical Education; 42: 1117–1118 (Really Good Stuff) PubMed.
• S N Sarbadhikari, A K Saha (2006) Moderate exercise and chronic stress produce counteractive effects on different areas of the brain by acting through various neurotransmitter receptor subtypes: A hypothesis, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modeling, 3 (1), 33 PubMed PubMed Central
• S N Sarbadhikari (2006) A Short Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, First Edition, Hyderabad, India, Universities Press India Limited Co., ISBN=978-81-7371-558-0; International Edition, CRC Press
• S N Sarbadhikari (2005) The State of Medical Informatics in India: A Roadmap for optimal organization, J. Medical Systems, 29, 125-141 PubMed
• A K Saha, S N Sarbadhikari (2005) HIV deranges Immune System Dynamics through Stochastic Fluctuations, Intl. J Applied Maths. Stats, 3, 52-81
• S N Sarbadhikari (2005) (Editor) Depression and Dementia: Progress in Brain Research, Clinical Applications and Future Trends, First Edition, New York, USA, Nova Biomedical, ISBN=1-59454-114-0
• S N Sarbadhikari (2005) Balancing the Brain activity: Putative Links between Epileptic, Cognitive and Affective Disorders In S M Benjamin (eds), Trends in Epilepsy Research, New York, USA, Nova Biomedical, ISBN=1-59454-237-6 (bookchapter)
• S N Sarbadhikari, S K Pal (2002) Automated Techniques for identifying depression from EEG In C T Leondes (eds), Handbook of Computational Methods in Biomaterials, Biotechnology & Biomedical systems, Boston, Kluwer Academic (bookchapter)

Supten Sarbadhikari Status    last updated Mar 20, 2009    [edit plan here] Get your own infobox! • Group Status ~ Plans ~ Short term plans Click edit above to start this list Longer-term plans 1. Remain an active member of the Citizendium. ~ Roles and notes ~ Roles in the system 1. Chair, Editorial Council (2008-2009) 2. Secretary, Editorial Council (2007-2008) 3. Editorial Personnel Administrator Notes to self Click edit above to start these notes Public notes : Don't promise the sky!