Dr Debasish Kar
MBBS, MSc, FRCP, FRCGP, DTM&H (London)
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Full contact details
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
- Profile
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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
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- Multifactorial intervention in preventing diabetic complications
- Smoking cessation and weight management in people with diabetes
- Evidence synthesis
- Meta-analysis
- Global Health
Title of MD – 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
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Supervisors:
- Lead Supervisor – Professor Elizabeth Goyder
- Second Supervisor – Dr Andrew Lee
- Teaching interests
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- 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.