Dr. Deepan P Bathia

Dr. Deepan P Bathia

M.B.B.S, M.D. (Pathology)

Director, Omega Diagnostic Centre · Over 20 years of clinical & laboratory expertise · Trained at KEM Hospital, Mumbai & West Yorkshire, UK

Background

Education & Training

M.B.B.S

Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai

Graduated from one of Mumbai's most prestigious medical institutions, gaining foundational clinical and administrative experience during a subsequent year as Medical Officer at a Primary Health Centre.

M.D. (Pathology)

Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai — 2004

Specialised in Pathology with a dissertation on "Paediatric Extra Gonadal Germ Cell Tumors". Made numerous poster and verbal presentations during this period.

UK Specialist Training

West Yorkshire, UK — 6 Years

Worked across the West Yorkshire region, gaining extensive experience in endocrinology, immuno-chemistry, chemical pathology pre-analytical processes, point-of-care testing, paediatric biochemistry, trace metals, toxicology, and quality management (CPA & CAP requirements).

Clinical Experience in the UK

Nutrition · Metabolic · Endocrine Clinics

Participated in nutrition rounds, porphyria clinic, metabolic bone clinic, diabetes clinic, metabolic and renal stone clinic, and lipid clinic — managing complex metabolic and endocrine cases.

Expertise

Key Skills & Expertise

Endocrinology Immuno Chemistry Chemical Pathology Point of Care Testing Paediatric Biochemistry Trace Metals & Toxicology Quality Management CLIA Radio-immuno Assay Laboratory Management Automated Analyzers HPLC & Tandem Mass Spec Assay Evaluation Total Parenteral Nutrition Lipid Disorders Metabolic Renal Stones
Focus Areas

Special Interests

  • Laboratory management, including quality control management. Well versed with functioning of automated analyzers, HPLC and the Tandem Mass Spectrometer.
  • Evaluation of new assays and provision of better improved laboratory service.
  • Trace metals, routine biochemistry and endocrine investigations, including dynamic function tests.
  • Total parenteral nutrition and enteral feeding.
  • Investigation and management of patients with lipid disorders and metabolic renal stones.
Metabolic Medicine

Experience in Metabolic Medicine

Porphyria Clinic

Specialist clinic for patients with porphyria — a group of rare metabolic disorders.

Metabolic Bone Clinic

Managing osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and other metabolic bone conditions.

Diabetes Clinic

Comprehensive diabetes care including biochemical monitoring and management.

Metabolic & Renal Stone Clinic

Investigation and management of patients with metabolic and renal stone disease.

Lipid Clinic

Specialist management of familial hypercholesterolemia and complex lipid disorders.

Research

Research Experience

Research Project

Leeds General Infirmary — June 2010
  • Blood levels of Copper, Zinc and Selenium levels in patients with Gastrointestinal cancer at Leeds General Infirmary.
  • A clinical project looking at the Copper, Zinc and Selenium levels in patients with gastrointestinal cancer, with ethical approval obtained.
  • Project involved comparing 100 patients with 25 control subjects.

Additional Research

  • Bathia D. Retrospective & Prospective study of Germ cell Tumours.
Audit

Clinical Audit

  • Compliance with entering Patient identification on the Blood gas analyzers.
  • Add-on sample audit.
  • Investigation of testing for Copper, zinc and selenium in patients on TPN.
  • Survey of low alkaline phosphatase.
  • Investigation and causes of Severe Hyponatremia — York Hospital NHS Trust.
  • Troponin I requesting by General Practitioners — York Hospital NHS Trust.
  • Increased ALT- Effect of Cascade testing — York Hospitals NHS Trust, April 2009.
  • Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust, 2005 — Breast Core Biopsies: An analysis of B3 and B4 lesions and their outcomes.
  • Reflective addition of tumor markers to increased alkaline phosphatase — Airedale Hospitals NHS Trust, February 2010.
Projects

Method Development & Projects

  • Evaluation of the sensitivity, specificity and reference range of the new Ultra troponin I.
  • Reference range of Pediatric Alkaline phosphatase, Creatinine, Phosphate, Urea, ALT and Bilirubin.
  • Reference range of Heart-Fatty acid binding protein.
  • Comparison of eGFR in Asians using the MDRD formula against the Cockroft-Gault.
  • Metabolic and endocrine changes in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia taking Glivec — Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, April 2008.
  • Biochemical and metabolic changes in patients undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
  • Set up the list of patients with diagnosed and probable Familial Hypercholesterolemia in York.
  • Evaluation of the new Siemens Centaur fT4, Carbamazepine, Cortisol and Progesterone assays.
  • Method development: Assay for the estimation of Thiopurine Methyl Transferase (TPMT) on the LC/Mass spectrometry. The assay was provided for users in Trust and other hospitals.
Teaching

Teaching Experience

  • Tutorials and case discussions for 2nd and 5th year Medical students at Leeds Medical University.
  • Lectures for Biomedical Scientists students at Bradford University.
  • Involved with teaching II year MBBS students at LTMMC — topics in General Pathology as well as Systemic Pathology.
  • Conducted practical classes and demonstrations for II year MBBS students at LTMMC — examination of urine, stool, peripheral smears, etc.
  • Supervised and trained junior trainees in surgical pathology, cytology, autopsy, etc.
Publications

Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Serum 99th centile values for two heart-type fatty acid binding Protein assays. Ann Clin Biochem 2009; November 2009; 46: 464 – 467.
  • Consumptive Hypothyroidism: a case report and review of literature. Ann Clin Biochem 2010.

Poster Presentations

  • Vitamin D Sufficiency is rare in patients attending the Endocrine Antenatal clinics including Caucasians — British Endocrine Society conference, Manchester 2010.
  • Vitamin D deficiency is not excluded by normal calcium and PTH — FOCUS 2010, Glasgow.
  • Audit of Adrenal vein sampling for primary hyperaldosteronism — FOCUS 2008, Birmingham.
  • Mercury Exposure leading to Nephrotic Syndrome and Polycythaemia — FOCUS 2008, Birmingham.
  • A Fishy Tale: A case of Methyl mercury Toxicity? — FOCUS 2008, Birmingham.
  • A case of hyperprolactinaemia with extremely high levels — Focus 2008, Birmingham.
  • Reference range of Paediatric Alkaline Phosphatase — Focus 2007, Manchester.

Verbal / Paper Presentations

  • "Extra Gonadal Germ cell Tumors" — Presented at MAPCON 2004 at Grant Medical College & JJ Hospital, Mumbai, India.
  • "Pancytopenia — Co-relation of peripheral smear and bone marrow aspirate and trephine findings" — Presented at MAPCON 2003 at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College, Wardha, India.
  • "Evaluation of Fine needle aspirations of Benign Breast Diseases of 250 cases" — Presented at CYTOCON 2003 at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
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