Bhubaneswar: Sanghamitra Pati, Director of the Regional Medical Research Center ICMR (RMRC) Bhubaneswar, has been rated as the most influential researcher of India (first among the Indian Medical Research Council) by Elsevier, publishers of scientific books and journals.
He secured this rating under the sub-category of public health in the general and internal treatment category of the two top percentile researchers throughout the world.
Pati has published many scientific articles and research in various journals recognized nationally and internationally.
Most of these articles have been quoted by many scientists, medical practitioners and researchers.
One of the most quoted articles is on multi-morbidity of people.
“This is a new term, which can be defined as the presence of more than two diseases in the human body.
The main problem of multi-morbidity is the nature of conflicting diseases.
If a person has chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), a doctor will suggest his physical activity.
But patients COPD with arthritis cannot do physical activity.
This is called two-way interactions between conditions that create problems for patient well-being, “Pati said.
He added that the purpose of his studies was to see multi-morbidity burdens in health arrangements in low and medium-sized income countries.
He has conducted this research at Odisha in 2013 after getting a fellowship from England.
After this, many other experts have conducted research on this topic by quoting their studies.
“I have developed a tool (MAQ-PC) to assess multi-morbidity in primary care.
It is used by many low and medium-income countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Malaysia.
This is a milestone study in my career followed by many researchers.
It has also conducted a study of multi-morbidity management in the middle of Covid-19, “Director of RMRC said.
A laboratory scientist and public health researcher, Pati completed its MBBS (1992) and MD (1998), both of the MKCG Medical College and Hosps, mixed.
Then, he received fellowship to pursue the Masters of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Pati, who fell to the whole, initially served as a medical officer and then worked as a faculty in various state medical colleges.