Dr. Suvro Sankha
Datta is a senior 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-the-art department with a day care
center for thalassemia and hemophilia patients. He was also instrumental in
setting up an advanced coagulation laboratory with thromboelastography and
platelet mapping facilities and started a pediatric therapeutic plasma exchange
program there. After rejoining TMC Kolkata in 2019, he established a platelet
serology laboratory to assist patients with platelet refractoriness. He was the
key person to establish the molecular laboratory for blood group genotyping at
TMC, Kolkata, the first of its kind in the entire country. He is the faculty in
charge of the DNB program in Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion at TMC
Kolkata. He is a member of several national and international scientific bodies
in the field of transfusion medicine and also the recipient of multiple awards,
including the Harold Gunson Fellowship by the International Society of Blood
Transfusion (ISBT), the H.D. Shoure Award by the Indian Society of Blood
Transfusion & Immunohaematology (ISBTI), and the ISTM Young Scientist
Award. He is a certified reviewer of several international journals and has
over 70 scientific publications in reputed national and international journals
to date. He has also contributed to five chapters in a book on
transplantation and transfusion. He is a member of the AABB Molecular Testing
Standards Committee. His areas of interest include immunohematology, blood
group genotyping, platelet serology, evidence-based transfusion practices, and
thromboelastography.