Dr. Nirmal Chandra Bhattacharyya received his MBBS degree from Gauhati Medical College, Assam, India, in the year 1973. Subsequently, he joined the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh as a junior resident in the Department of General Surgery in the year 1975. He completed his M. S. in General Surgery in 1978 and M.Ch. in Pediatric Surgery from the same Institute in 1980. After a brief period of working as a Senior Resident in Pediatric Surgery in Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, he joined as Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery at St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore in 1981. He is credited with establishing the Pediatric Surgery unit in this Medical College, which became an M.Ch. Training centre. After two years of serving this institute, he moved to Tanzania to serve as a faculty in Muhimbili Hospital under the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Dar-es-Salaam. In 1985, he returned to India and joined the Government service as Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery in Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, Assam. He started a small Pediatric Surgery unit in this College, which flourished to become a full-fledged department of Pediatric Surgery, serving the entire upper Assam population.

 

In 2002, he was posted in Gauhati Medical College as Professor & Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery. He was instrumental in the up-gradation of the department to an M.Ch. Training centre for Pediatric Surgery in 2008. In the year 2011, he joined as the Vice-Principal of Gauhati Medical College and his existing responsibility as Professor & Head of Pediatric Surgery. During this period, he was also the Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences, Assam. In 2014, he was appointed as the Principal-cum-Chief Superintendent of the newly established Tezpur Medical College, Assam, where he continued till his retirement from Government service in December 2016. During this period, he has also guided several PhD students under Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences, Assam.

Post-retirement, Dr. Bhattacharyya continued to serve the Government as a senior consultant in the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Assam, offering his service to better Child Health management in the State till the end of the year 2018. Presently, he is the Medical Director of KGMT Multispecialty Hospital, is a charitable Trust hospital in Guwahati.

 

Dr. Bhattacharyya has extensive experience in pediatric and Neonatal Surgery, Medical education and Healthcare management. However, his primary interest is in the care of children born with congenital disabilities. He has published many peer-reviewed papers on various congenital defects in newborns and children and authored chapters in books on research methodology. He is a member of many professional bodies like ASI, IAP, IAPS etc., and he has organized several national and state-level conferences.