Dr. Abhijit Taraphder is a trusted and prominent Nephrologist and joined Calcutta National Medical College. He has experience of teaching at IPGMER Kolkata and has been examiner and thesis adjudicator at various institutes across the country. Now he is associated with Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Salt Lake in Kolkata. He specializes in Glomerulonephritis, Dialysis, Vasculitis, kidney transplantation. He has completed his DM in Nephrology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, MD in Paediatrics from Calcutta Medical College, and MBBS from Calcutta Medical College. After which he did a WHO fellowship from the University of Minnesota, USA. He has experience of teaching at IPGMER Kolkata and has been examiner and thesis adjudicator at various institutes across the country. He has treated more than 15000 patients over 5 years and nearly 500 patients are on dialysis under his care. He has been an experienced consultant with a Demonstrated History of working in the Hospital & Health care Industry. He is an active member of various prestigious organizations like Scientific Committee, Indian Society of Nephrology, Core Group for Finalization of Quality of Dialysis in India, Faculty Promotion expert at SGPGI, Lucknow. He has worked in various reputed hospitals in India. He has reviewed papers for several national and international journals and contributed articles. The list of popular Procedures that Dr. Abhijit Taraphder Perform is given below: Rheumatology, Nephrology, Health check -up (General), Rheumatic Heart disease, Infectious Disease, Fever treatment, Typhoid fever, Jaundice treatment, Dengue fever, Viral fever, Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Treatment:

• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Kidney Dialysis
• Kidney failure Treatment
• Kidney stone treatment
• Renal (kidney) surgery
• Kidney replacement therapy
• Hemodiafiltration (HDF)-
• Percutaneous Nephrostomy
• Ureteroscopy (URS)
• Acute Kidney Disease
• Adult Nephrology
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Proteinuria Blood in urine treatment
• Blood in Urine ( Hematuria) Treatment
• Allergy Testing
• Viral Fever Treatment
• Rheumatology
• Nephrology,
• Colour doppler
• Health check -up (General)
• Rheumatic Heart disease
• Infectious Disease
• Fever treatment
• Typhoid fever
• Jaundice treatment
• Dengue fever
• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Qualification:

• MBBS, 1982, Calcutta Medical College
• MD, 1986, Calcutta Medical College
• DM, 1991, PGIMER,Chandigarh
• Fellowship, University of Minnesota

• SSKM Hospital, Kolkata 1993-2005, AGHL Hospital as Visiting Consultant 2005 to 2011, Fulltime Consultant AGHL from 2011.

• Obtained WHO Fellowship Award and completed the Fellowship in University of Minnesota, USA.

Research & Publication:

• "Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: A series in a non-Western population" Jam Acad Dermatol 2006;54:155-9, "Renal Amyloidosis Complicating Takayasu's arteritis -a rare association"Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation(1992).
• Abstract publication at the World Congress of Nephrology at Rio-de Janeiro, Brazil, EDTA Conference, and Hemodialysis Internatioonal.