Dr. Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar

Dr. Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar (born on 13 March 1959) is a Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist in Bombay Hospital, Jagjivanram Western Railway Hospital NAFLD and HCC. An MD, DM (Gastro), DNB (Gastro), Dr. Amarapurkar is a Fellow of American College of Gastroenterology, Fellow Of Indian College of Physicians , Fellow of American Gastroenterology Association & Fellow of American Association Study of Liver. Till date, he has presented around 200 papers, authored around 400 publications, both singly as well as in collaboration with other fellow doctors and has imparted his contribution in more than 20 chapters in a range of text books. He has also authored, edited and reviewed several books and journals on clinical Hepatology liver cirrhosis, hepatic encephalopathy, improving survival in decompensated liver cirrhosis and vascular disease of the liver.
Education and career
Dr. Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar has passed his MBBS degree from Dr V M Medical College Solapur, Shivaji University, completed his MD - Internal medicine from Dr. V M Medical College Genetics of Chronic Pancreatitis, JAK2 mutation in abdominal vein thrombosis, Association of genetic variants with anti-tuberculosis drug induced hepatotoxicity, Genetics of celiac disease, coagulopathy in liver cirrhosis and surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma; currently involved in research on Genetics of fatty liver disease and other liver diseases, portal hypertensive changes in Upper gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Deepak has Delivered more than 550 lectures at various International (APASL, APDW, IASL, AASLD, World congress of Gastroenterology, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian and Philippine Association of Hepatology/Gastroenterology) & National meetings & conferences (IMA, API, ISG, INASL, Indian society of Nephrology, Association of surgeons of India, Indian Association of Paediatrics, Indian association of Pathologists and Microbiologists)
Personal life
Born to Narayan Narhar Amarapurkar and Sudha Narayan (Dravid) Amarapurkar in 1959 in Solapur, Maharashtra, Dr. Deepak got married to Anjali Subhash Mhaskar who is pursuing her Fellowship at Miami, USA and Rohan Amarapurkar who is pursuing his Electrical Engineering at VJTI, Mumbai, respectively.
Awards and Scholarships
Dr. Amarapurkar presented by Dr. Amarapurkar:
* "Diabetes - Its impact on liver diseases" by M.V. Dharod and Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar.
* Adrenal function in cirrhosis: The pendulum swings - Anna Benjamin Pulimood, Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar, Ujjala Ghoshal, Mathew Phillip, Cannanore Ganesh Pai, Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy, Birender Nagi, Balakrishna Siddhartha Ramakrishna.
* Amarapurkar DN, Desai HG. The risk of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Trop Gastroenterol 1987:8; 182-3.
* Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL) guidance for antiviral therapy against HCV infection: Update 2016
* Desai HG, Amarapurkar DN, Hepatorenal Syndrome - A new therapeutic Approach. Trop Gastroenterol 1987; 8: 183-5.
* Loya YS, Sharma S, Amarapurkar DN, Desai HG. Complete membranous obstruction of inferior vena cava; Case treated by balloon dilation Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 1989; 17: 164-7.
* Rajiv Baijal , Subash Agal , Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar , Praveen Kumar HR , Nagaraj Kotli , Mayank Jain - Esophageal Tuberculosis: An Analysis of Fourteen Cases.
* Amarapurkar DN, Kalro RH, Desai HG. Non-Surgical management of Gallstone disease. J Assoc Physicians India 1990; 38 : 647-50.
* Desai HG & Amarapurkar DN, A new look at chronic gastritis. J Clin Gastroenterol 1992; 4: 278-80.
* Amarapurkar D, Dharod M, Chandnani M, Baijal R, Praveein Kumar, Jain M, Patel N, Kamani P, Shah N, Kulkarni S, Gautam Sonali, Shah A, Doshi S.Care of Patients with Cirrhosis How are we doing? Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 2015:72:51-58
* Amarapurkar D, Dharod M, Amarapurkar A Autoimmune hepatitis in India: Single tertiary referral centre experience. Trop Gastroenterol 2015 ;1:36- 45
* Amarapurkar D, Amarapurkar A. Indications of liver biopsy in the era of noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology in press.
* Amarapurkar D, Bhatt N, Patel N, Amarapurkar P, Amarapurkar A. Diagnostic laparoscopy in the era of modern imaging-retrospective analysis from a single center. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2013; 32:302-6.
* Amarapurkar DN, kalro RH, Desai HG. Role of peritoneoscopy in diagnosis of ascites. Indian J. Gastroenterol 1988, 7(Supp 4) : A8.
* Amarapurkar DN, Kalro RH, Desai HG. Peritoneoscopy A review of 500 cases. Indian J Gastroenterol 1988; 7 (Supp 4) : A 46.
* Amarapurkar DN, Kumar A, Parikh SS, Chopra KB, Kalro RH, Desai HG. Hepatitis C Virus infection in chronic liver diseases. Indian J Gastroenterol 1991; 10 (Supp 4) : A 58.
* [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi10.1.1.514.3930&reprep1&type=pdf Anti-HBc screening in Indian blood donors: Still an unresolved issue.]
Conferences Organised
Dr. Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar has been organising updates on DDW and AASLD meetings in India for the last 6 years and organised a number of conferences that include:
* INASL Conference independently in Bombay in the year 1998,
* INASL jointly with EASL conference at Goa from March 23 to 25, 2001 at Goa,
* Asia Pacific Hepatitis Summit, Goa, 2006
* Scientific Committee Chairman - Indian Association of Gastroenterology 2006 Annual conference.
Memberships
* Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
* The Association of Physicians of India
* Consulting Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist
* World Journal of Gastroenterology
* World Journal of Hepatology
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* Austin Journal of Gastroenterology and Health & Nutrition
* Consensus Development Panel for Asian Pacific Association for Study of Liver Disease for Hepatitis B, C, Extrahepatic Portal vein obstruction & ACLF
* Asian Pacific consensus on NAFLD and HCC
* Indian Association for Study of Liver - Hepatitis C, NAFLD & Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy.

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