Bhubaneswar: Sanghamitra Pati, Director of the ICMR-Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC) Bhubaneswar, is ranked as the second most influential researcher from India (first among the Indian Medical Research Council) by Elsevier, publishers of scientific books and journals.
He got this rating under the general and internal treatment category with sub-category of public health from the top two percentage researchers throughout the world.
Pati has published many scientific articles and researches in national and internationally recognized journals.
Most of these articles have been quoted by many scientists, medical practitioners and researchers.
One of the most quoted articles is on the multimorbidity conditions of people.
Multimorbidity means the existence of various diseases or conditions in someone.
“This is a new term that can be defined as the presence of more than two diseases in the human body.
The main problem of multimorbidity is the nature of conflicting disease.
If someone suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a doctor will suggest for physical activity.
But the patient is COPD with Arthritis cannot do physical activity.
This is called a two-way interaction between conditions that create problems for patient well-being, “said Pati.
He said the purpose of his research was to see the multimorbidity burden on 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 multimorbidity 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.
We have also done Research on Multimorbidity Management amid Covid-19 Time, “said Director of RMRC.
A doctor converts laboratory scientists and public health researchers, Pati completes its MBBS (1992) and MD (1998) both from MKCG Medical College and the hospital is mixed.
Then he received a fellowship to pursue the Masters in 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.
Since August 2016, he has served as Director of RMRC Bhubaneswar ICMR.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he pioneered the Covid-19 laboratory testing in Odisha and established a high-throughput Laboratory.