Indian Medical Association awards Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya National Best Medical Teacher Award for the second time

Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya, a senior surgeon from Siliguri who is also working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Mata Gujri Memorial Medical College Kishanganj in Bihar has been awarded today the prestigious "National Best Medical Teacher Award" by the Indian Medical Association Headquarters New Delhi for the second time. He will receive this award during the National Conference of the Indian Medical Association at Hyderabad next month.

Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya has been recently selected as the International Surgical Ambassador of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and he is the first doctor from North Bengal to get this international recognition. Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya has more than 200 publications in various International and national medical journals .He has delivered several national Orations and lectures and will be delivering the "Ramesh Nigam Memorial Oration" at the All India Surgeons Conference at Agra next month. He is also on the editorial board of many Surgical journals . Apart from medical laurels, Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya holds the unique record of receiving Director General Border Security Force Commendation Roll thrice and Director General Sashastra Seema Bal Commendation Roll once during his contractual service for the combined armed police force in the past.

Dr Kaushik Bhattacharya wants to dedicate his award to his mother and wife Dr Neela Bhattacharya who is the Project Director of Smile Train, a NGO doing free cleft lip and palate surgery at North Bengal. He acknowledged the support of the Registrar of Mata Gujri University Dr Icchhit Jaiswal and the IMA Siliguri Branch in all the academic activities in this part of the country.