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Dr. Deepak Yogesh Kamath

MBBS, MD

Associate Professor

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English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani
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  • 2008 - 2011; MD - Clinical Pharmacology
    St. John's Medical College, Bangalore
  • 2001 - 2007; MBBS
    Father Muller's Medical College, Mangalore

Associate Professor (Pharmacology).

Dr. Deepak Kamath teaches undergraduate Pharmacology and is a university registered postgraduate (MD Pharmacology) dissertation guide. He also manages the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) clinical service at St. John's. His research interest lies in cardiovascular (CVD) and metabolic disease prevention and treatment with approaches that include drug repurposing, devices and health systems intervention trials. He has deep experience in the design and conduct of multicenter randomised controlled trials. He has received research grants as Principal or Co-Investigator from the ICMR, India Alliance (DBT-Wellcome Trust) and the UK-MRC. He was selected as a World Heart Federation (WHF) Emerging Leader in 2015 and as an India Alliance Early Career Research Fellow in 2017. He is Co-Principal Investigator on an ongoing large, nationwide, ICMR Centers for Advanced Research (CAR) CVD prevention study.

His published work has an h-index of 11 with 1000+ citations. He has also published 3 textbook chapters dealing with cardiovascular drugs in flagship textbooks. 

Qualification/ Education

  • 2008 - 2011; MD - Clinical Pharmacology
    St. John's Medical College, Bangalore
  • 2001 - 2007; MBBS
    Father Muller's Medical College, Mangalore

Experience

  • Associate Professor
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John's Medical College & Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John's Research Institute
    2023-till date
    Bangalore, India
  • Assistant Professor
    Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John’s Research Institute
    2015 - 2023
    Bangalore, India
  • Assistant Professor
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John`s Medical College Hospital
    2015 - 2023
    Bangalore, India
  • Senior Resident
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John’s Medical College Hospital
    2008-2015
    Bangalore, India
  • Senior Resident
    Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John’s Research Institute
    2011 - 2014
    Bangalore, India

Areas of interest

Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), chronic heart failure, non-communicable disease epidemiology, diabetes mellitus, selfcare and medication adherence, health systems and implementation research, mobile health (m-health), randomized controlled trial methodology, qualitative and mixed-methods study designs.

  • Associate Professor
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John's Medical College & Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John's Research Institute
    2023-till date
    Bangalore, India
  • Assistant Professor
    Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John’s Research Institute
    2015 - 2023
    Bangalore, India
  • Assistant Professor
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John`s Medical College Hospital
    2015 - 2023
    Bangalore, India
  • Senior Resident
    Dept of Pharmacology, St. John’s Medical College Hospital
    2008-2015
    Bangalore, India
  • Senior Resident
    Division of Clinical Research and Training, St. John’s Research Institute
    2011 - 2014
    Bangalore, India

Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), chronic heart failure, non-communicable disease epidemiology, diabetes mellitus, selfcare and medication adherence, health systems and implementation research, mobile health (m-health), randomized controlled trial methodology, qualitative and mixed-methods study designs.

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