Dr Debasis Majumdar

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant Gastroenterologist, West Valley Hospital (present)
• Consultant Endoscopist and Gastroenterologist in North Middlesex University Hospital
• Consultant Gastroenterologist- James cook University Hospital (previously)
• Endoscopy Research Fellow- University Hospital of North Tees (previously)
• Pancreato-biliary fellow- Freeman Hospital (previously)

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 Sub-specialties

• Advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
• Advanced diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy
• Colon cancer detection and advanced diagnostic colonoscopy
• Colonic polyp detection and polypectomy
• Pancreato-biliary problems
• ERCP
• Endosonography 

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 Teaching posts

• Faculty in Northern Region Endoscopy Training Centre, for Basic skills in colonoscopy and upper GI endoscopy and ERCP courses
• Developed and delivered regional advanced diagnostic endoscopy course, 2nd February 2012
• Regular teacher of CSIM teaching programme of for students in Medical School in Durham University, in Queens campus
• PACES teaching for CMTs in Darlington Memorial and Freeman hospital.
• FOCP teaching for Newcastle University Medical students in Freeman

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 Education

• Registered on the specialist register (2006)
• MB BS University of Calcutta (1996)
• MD University Of Calcutta, India, on completion of post-graduate study and submission of the Thesis (2001)
• MD Durham University, on completion on research on "Polyp surveillance in NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme" (2018)
• Oral Presentations
• Adenoma surveillance in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme - is the high/intermediate risk stratification appropriate? – BSG 2014, Manchester
• Predictors of advanced neoplasia at surveillance in screening population- a study of all high and intermediate risk group subjects in first six year of NHS BCSP- BSG 2014, Manchester
• Trans-nasal percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (t-PEG) placement using a small calibre endoscope: safe, well tolerated and effective. 17 World Congress on Clinical Nutrition, Sofia Friday 25 October 2013
• Analysis of colorectal polyps detected in the English NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme with emphasis on advanced adenoma and polyp cancer detected, DDF, 2012, Liverpool
• High-resolution manometry alters the diagnosis in patients diagnosed with diffuse oesophageal spasm by conventional manometry: resurgence of achalasia cardia. NREG, November 2011.

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 Publications and conferences

• Safety and efficacy of self-expandable metal stents for obstructive proximal and distal large bowel cancer: experience from a district general hospital, Dr. Vikramjit Mitra, Dr. Maxworth Hu, Dr. Debasis Majumdar, et al, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Accepted for publication, January 2017)
• Comparison of the diagnostic performance of 2 core biopsy needles for EUS-guided tissue acquisition from solid pancreatic lesions. Manu K. Nayar, Bharat Paranandi, Muhammad F. Dawwas, John S.Leeds, Antony Darne, Beate Haugk, Debasis Majumdar, et al, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Article in press, December 2016)
• Reported adverse clinical incidents in a district general hospital. Lessons to be learnt? M Macauley, D Majumar, B Chaudhury. The Online Journal of Clinical Audit, Vol 2, No:4, 2010
• Pulmonary Involvement in Chronic Arsenic Poisoning from Drinking Contaminated Ground-water; BK De, D Majumdar, S.Sen, et al, Journal of The Association of Physicians of India,2004;52:395-400.
• Management of the Budd-Chiari syndrome by ballon cavoplasty; BK De, PK Biswas, S Sen, D Das, SK Mandal, D Majumdar, Indian Journal of Gastroenteology,2001;20:151-154.
• Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction Responding to Cavoplasty; BK De, S Sen, PK Biswas, R Sanyal, D Majumdar et al, Gastroenterology 2000;118:192-196.
• Acute and 7-day portal pressure response to carvediliol and propranolol in cirrhotics; BK De, D Das, S Sen, PK Biswas, SK Mandal, D Majumdar et al, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2002;17:183-189.

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 Professional membership

• British Society of Gastroenterology
• European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• British Medical Association
• Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh

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