Dr Debasish Kar

I am an academic GP with experience working in primary care, secondary care and academia. I completed my undergraduate medical qualification in Bangladesh in 1991 and moved to the UK in 1995. Before starting my clinical career, I worked as an interpreter/translator at Sheffield City Council for the Equality and Diversity Unit. I also worked as an interviewer for the Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR) and contributed to the British Crime Survey (1997) and Health of the Nation (1998) study. I also worked in Community Health Sheffield, leading a project empowering patients from black and ethnic minorities to manage simple health problems without coming to the GPs. 

I worked in hospital medicine until 2002 and joined a GP training scheme in Sheffield. I passed my MRCP and MRCGP exams 2004 and maintained my interest in primary and secondary care. I conducted over 300 gastroscopies and was one of the first GPs in the country to undertake capsule endoscopy, which was published as an abstract at the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) annual conference in 2005. I served as the NHS Hardwick CCG lead for respiratory disease and neurology, worked as a GPSI in neurology, and undertook teaching sessions for the RCGP. I also worked as the RCGP Education Lead (White Rose Faculty), International Medical Adviser and a mentor. 

I completed my MSc in diabetes (University of Leicester) and an MD (University of Sheffield). I was a senior clinical researcher at the University of Oxford (2021 to 2023) and a Primary Care Fellow at the University of Leicester (2016 to 2018). 

Doctor of Medicine (MD) - University of Sheffield, UK.

Master of Science (MSc) - University of Leicester, UK.

Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP), UK.

Member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP), UK.

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) - University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP)

Fellow of the Royal of General Practitioners (FRCGP)

Member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (MFCI)

Diplomat of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H - London)

Diplomat of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH) 

GP Adviser - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Member - Editorial board - Diabetes and primary care

Peer reviewer - BMJ, Elsevier, PLOS one, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Dove and Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Canadian Journal of Public Health

GP appraiser - NHS England and Improvement

GP mentor - Royal College of General Practitioners of United Kingdom

International Clinical Adviser - Royal College of General Practitioners of United Kingdom

Ex-examiner - Professional and Linguistic Board (PLAB) - General Medical Council (GMC), UK.

GP tutor - Derbyshire Health United (DHU), UK. 

I have been involved in multi-professional teaching for the last 22 years.

I have worked as a GP tutor for 4th and 5th-year medical students from Sheffield University. I was also a clinical lead tutor for the Access to Medicine course at Leicester University.

As a GP trainer, I have worked as a clinical and academic supervisor of about 20 GP trainees. I have also mentored my register to develop their leadership skills. 

Invited judge for the RCGP poster presentation

Examiner for OSCE examination, University of Sheffield

PLAB examiner - General Medical Counil

Cardiometabolic disease in people with insulin resistance

Obesity, smoking and other lifestyle factors and vascular disease

Complex behavioural intervention 

Health Technology Assessment and Modelling

Clinical trials

Epidemiology of non-communicable disease

Global Health

Supervised Masters students at the University of Oxford

Clinical supervision of a DPhil student at the University of Oxford

Masters student supervision at the University of Derby

Designated Medical Practitioner for nurses and allied healthcare professionals for the NMP course

MSc 

University of Plymouth - NIHR Clinical Lecturership

University of Sheffield - Academic Primary Care Fellowship

NHS Hardwick CCG research fellowship grant

University of Leicester - Primary Care Fellowship

East Midlands CLAHRC - Research grant

NIHR East Midlands CRN - Research Site Initiative (RSI) grant

Health Education England - Premises improvement grant

University of Oxford - Clinical Research Contract

Invited speaker - Diagnostic challenges and strategies for early screening for diabetic peripheral neuropathy - National Institute for Neurosciences, Bangladesh.

Expert panellist - Characteristics of dementia and cognitive dysfunction are people with dementia: above and beyond vascular risk. National Institute for Neurosciences, Bangladesh.

Invited speaker - Research methodology in healthcare. Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh

Invited speaker - Society of Academic Primary Care, UK regional meeting 2017

Invited speaker - Primary Care Respiratory Society annual conference, UK 2014