DR. A.L. KAKRANI, MD Professor of Clinical Eminence in Medicine and Director, Academic Collaborations, Dr DY Patil medical College Pimpri, Pune 411018

• Past Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, BJ Govt Medical College & Sassoon General Hospital, Pune and Dr DY. Patil Medical College, Pune.
• Served as Dean, Faculty of medicine from 2009 to 2018 for Dr D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS :

• M.B.B.S & M.D. (Internal Medicine) from Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Reviewer & Member, International Advisory Board for 5 consecutive editions of Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, Elsevier Publication, UK (2006, 2010, 2014 & 2018, 2022)
• Reviewer & Member, International Advisory Board of 24^th & 25^th edition of Hutchison’s Clinical Methods (2018 & 2022 editions) Elsevier, UK
• Contributed a chapter in Davidson’s Clinical Case Book (1^st& 2^ndEdition), Elsevier, UK & API Textbook of Medicine (8^th Edition)
• Awarded Fogarty grants for training in Principles of Clinical Epidemiology & for AIDS Intensive Training & Research Program from Fogarty grants of NIH, USA, attended the course at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA in June/July 2006.
• Life Member, Association of Physicians of India & Vice President, API, Pune Branch
• Awarded Fellowship of Indian College of Physicians (FICP) in 2004
• Life Member, Indian Society of Gastroenterology & President, Pune Society of Gastroenterology, Pune
• Member, IDSA (USA) & CIDS
• Member, National Advisory Board, Journal of Association of Physicians of India (1999-2009), Member,
• Worked as member, National Technical Resource Group (TRG) on Anti-Retroviral Therapy in HIV &AIDS, NACO, Government of India
• Worked as Faculty for National Vector Borne Diseases Directorate, Govt of India.
• Member, Maharashtra State Covid Death Audit Committee
• Presently Principal Investigator/Coinvestigator for many NIH (USA) funded clinical studies
• Medical teacher for more than 45 years,
• More than 100 publications in National & International journals