The Department of Pathology
UA College of Medicine
Achyut K. Bhattacharyya, MD
Interim Department Head
Email: abhattac@email.arizona.edu
Phone: (520) 626-6097Professor of Pathology and General Surgery
Director of Surgical Pathology
(M.D. Calcutta National Medical Center, 1976)Dr. Bhattacharyya completed his post-graduate training in 1976 with a gold medal in General Surgery from National Medical College, Calcutta, India. He was trained in Anatomic Pathology from the Boston Children’s Hospital and the New England Deaconess Hospital; both part of the Harvard Medical School. He completed the Clinical Pathology training in 1986 from the Worcester Memorial Hospital. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.
Dr. Bhattacharyya’s interests and expertise involve G.I. and liver pathology. He leads an active telepathology diagnostic practice in Arizona under the Arizona Telemedicine Program. As the Director of Surgical Pathology he is in the middle of a very busy clinical practice with a strong outreach program.
Dr. Bhattacharyya is part of several American National Cancer Institute( NCI) research programs. These involve colon cancer prevention as well as G.I. cancer translational research. He actively collaborates with the Arizona Cancer Center, serves as the G.I. Pathologist for the center and leads a seminar every Wednesday for gastroenterologists. As of 2005, he has become part of the NCI think tank group for pancreatic cancer studies. He has published about 50 papers , made number of presentations including one at the IAP in Australia in 2004. He actively collaborates with pathologists in India and had presented his work on several occasions in the last 4 years.
Along with the above-mentioned activities, Dr. Bhattacharyya maintains and balances an active teaching schedule for residents and second year medical students. He obtained several awards, including the award of “Basic Science Educator of the Year” for 2001 and 2002, “Dean’s List for Excellence in Teaching” 1999 and 2003, and the “John Davis Faculty of the Year” for 1999-2000. In summary, his professional activities include patient care, teaching and research.
The Department of Pathology has a broad mission within The University of Arizona. The faculty provides professional expertise in many areas of pathology and laboratory medicine. In addition, the professional staff provides the medical center with expertise in quality control and quality assurance and interfaces with a variety of state and national laboratory accrediting agencies on behalf of The University of Arizona and University Medical Center. The faculty is also responsible for the education of medical students, residents, graduate students, and post-graduate physicians as well as conducting research.
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