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Amit Basu, MD, FACS, FRCS
Job Title
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
4401 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA
15224
412-647 5742
Phone
412-647 5736
Fax
Email
basua@msx.upmc.edu
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1980 Christian Medical College, Vellore, India |
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Residency: |
1985 Senior Resident in Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical, Sciences, New Delhi, India |
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Fellowship: |
2002 Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA |
Memberships
- Central Surgical Association
- American Society of Nephrology
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- American College of Surgeons, Fellow
- Urological Society of India
- Association of Surgeons of India
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery
- FRCS, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- MCh (Urology), Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education
and Research, Chandigarh, India - MS (General Surgery), University of Madras, India
Awards
- 2007-2009 Honor Roll CERT+audit, UPMC Physician Services Division
- Video accepted for presentation at the ‘Highlights From the 2005 Clinical Congress’ at the Annual Spring Meeting of the American College of Surgeons, Dallas, TX
- ‘Poster of Distinction’, 5th American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA
- Winner of Resident Essay Contest Bronx Chapter, American College of Surgeons
- Rajah of Panagal Gold Medal as Best Outgoing Medical Student of the University of Madras
- Merit Award: Second Rank Final MBBS
- P Kutumbiah Prize in Clinical Medicine
- Merit Award: Second Rank Third MBBS
- Florence Nicholls Prize in Psychiatry
- Merit Award: Second Rank Second MBBS
- Abhyankar Memorial Prize in Physiology
- Merit Award: Second Rank First MBBS
- National Science Talent Search Scholarship, Govt. of India
- National Scholarship, Govt. of India
Publications
- Batal I, Zainah H, Stockhausen S, Basu A, et al. The significance of renal C4d staining in patients with BK viruria, viremia and nephropathy. Modern Pathology. 2009.
- Kayler L, Mohanka R, Basu A, Shapiro R and Randhawa P. Single versus dual renal transplantation from donors with significant arteriosclerosis on pre-implantation biopsy. Clin Transplantation 2009; 23(4): 525-531.
- Trivedi H, Nachmany I, Randhawa P, Humar A, Shapiro R, Basu A . Image of the Month. Archives of Surgery. 2010. (Accepted for publication).
View Dr. Basu's full list of publications from PubMed.
Active Research Projects / Grants
- Outcomes of renal transplantation in recipients with PRA greater than 30%
- Use of OPTN/SRTR database to study transplant outcomes
- Alemtuzumab in the treatment of acute cellular rejection in renal transplant recipients
- Outcomes of deceased donor renal transplantation from donors with high risk social behavior
Last Update
February 16, 2010
February 16, 2010
