Dr. Suvro Sankha Datta is a Consultant in the
department of Transfusion Medicine at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata. He passed
his MBBS from West Bengal University of Health Sciences in 2008 and completed
his MD in Immunohematology & blood transfusion, from Medical College
Hospital, Kolkata in 2014. He subsequently worked as a clinical fellow in the
Transfusion Medicine department at TMC, Kolkata for one year and in 2015 he
moved to The Mission Hospital as a consultant; where he established a
state-of-art department with a day care centre for thalassemia and haemophilia
patients. He was also instrumental to set-up an advanced coagulation laboratory
with thromboelastography and platelet mapping facilities and started a
paediatric therapeutic plasma exchange program there. After joining back to TMC
Kolkata in 2019, he subsequently established a platelet serology laboratory for
patients with platelet refractoriness. He was the key person to establish the
molecular laboratory for blood group genotyping at TMC, Kolkata, first of this
kind in the entire country. He is the faculty in-charge of the DNB program in
Immunohaematology & blood transfusion at TMC Kolkata. He is a member of
national and international scientific bodies in the speciality of Transfusion
Medicine and also recipient of multiple awards including the Harold GunSon Fellowship by
the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and H.D. Shoure Award by the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion &
Immunohaematology (ISBTI).He is a certified reviewer of several international
journals and has over 40 scientific publications in reputed National and
International journals till date.
His
areas of interest include immunohaematology, platelets serology, evidence base
transfusion practices, thromboelastography and therapeutic apheresis.