Dr Debasish Kar

MBBS, MSc, FRCP, FRCGP, DTM&H (London)

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

dkar1@sheffield.ac.uk

Full contact details

Dr Debasish Kar
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
Profile

I have been a General Practitioner (GP) for over 15 years working in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.

Before coming to General Practice, I worked in hospital medicine for several years and passed the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). I have also completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the University of 91Ö±²¥.

In my GP role, I have been a GP trainer since 2009, and worked as the GP tutor for the University of 91Ö±²¥ undergraduate students who are placed in the community for their Primary Care and Public Health teaching modules.

I have also worked as

  • Clinical Director (Research and Innovation), Derbyshire Community Health Services, (DCHS)
  • Education Lead for the RCGP White Rose Faculty
  • GP Lead for Neurology and Respiratory Disease – NHS Hardwick CCG
  • Clinical Adviser for the RCGP
  • A stakeholder for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines development group

I was short-listed for the NICE fellowship in 2017.  I also work for the NHS England and Improvement as a Locality Appraisal Lead, and for the General Medical Council (UK) as a Professional Associate.

Academically, I completed my MSc in Diabetes and Vascular Medicine from the University of Leicester. I was a Primary Care Fellow at the Leicester Diabetes Centre from 2016 to 2018. I am now working at 91Ö±²¥ School of Health and Related Research as a Senior Clinical Lecturer (Honorary) and undertaking research in preventing diabetic complications by early, targeted, multifactorial interventions.

Clinically, I work as a GP at the Broomhill and Lodgemoor Practice in 91Ö±²¥, and a GP Clinical Assistant in the Allergy and Immunology clinic, at Northern General Hospital in 91Ö±²¥. I am in the Strategic Governing Body of 91Ö±²¥ Clinical Commissioning Group for Diabetes.

Research interests
  • Multifactorial intervention in preventing diabetic complications
  • Smoking cessation and weight management in people with diabetes
  • Evidence synthesis
  • Meta-analysis
  • Global Health

Title of MD â€“ Benefit and cost-effectiveness of incorporating smoking cessation intervention at the stage of pre-diabetes, and early diabetes to reduce the risk of diabetic kidney disease

Research group

Supervisors:

Teaching interests
  • Diabetes and non-communicable disease
  • Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis
  • Clinical Research and application in practice
  • Audit and service evaluation
  • Clinical Leadership
Key publications
  • Association of smoking and cardiometabolic parameters with albuminuria in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Diabetic peripheral neuropathy: advances in diagnosis and strategies for screening and early intervention. 
  • Prevalence and progression of diabetic nephropathy in South Asian, white European and African Caribbean people with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Managing vascular risk factors among obese quitters with diabetes: how intensive lifestyle intervention and novel pharmacotherapy can work in concert? 
  • Relationship of cardiometabolic parameters in non-smokers, current smokers, and quitters in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.