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Nanavati Hospital's Dr. Deepak Patkar elected chairman of 'Indian College of Radiology and Imaging
Our Bureau, Mumbai | Thursday, November 27, 2014, 17:15 Hrs  [IST]

Dr. Deepak Patkar, one of the leading consultant radiologists in the country and head of Department of Radiology of Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, has been elected as the chairman of Indian College of Radiology and Imaging (ICRI), an academic wing of Indian Radiology and Imaging Association.

The appointment is for two years from January 2015 to December 2016. Dr. Patkar has been fellow of Indian college of Radiology and had already been elected as secretary of ICRI in 2008 and 2009.

A globally reputed radiologist, he has been in the profession for 24 years in the UK and in India. He is also Director of Teleradiology Diagnostic Services Pvt. Ltd., dealing in teleradiology with clients in US, Africa and the Middle East.  He has been associated with Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital since last 22 years and has been responsible for setting up the new radiology wing there.

Dr. Patkar has been the Organizing Secretary of National Conference of Indian Radiological and Indian Association – 2007, Mumbai. He has delivered more than 1200 lectures and orations at national and international conferences including ‘India meets ESR’ at European congress of Radiology in, 2008 at Vienna.

He has more than 150 international publications predominantly on Neuro and Musculoskeletal MRI related topics, one of the best being ‘Central Nervous System Tuberculosis: Pathophysiology and imaging findings’ published in Clinical review articles of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America.

Speaking of his selection as chairperson, Dr. Patkar said, “It is a great honour and privilege to be elected as Chairman for the ICRI. During its 36 years of journey ICRI has helped many budding radiologists to quench their thirst for knowledge through its various academic projects and programmes”.

Dr. Deepak has the mastery, commitment, passion and strong sense of giving back and to reach to students of various fields other than Radiology like Biomedical and IIT students. He has successfully organised many national as well as international conferences.

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