Bikram Paul, MD, MS, FACS

Education:

• MD, Burla Medical College, Utkal University, Orissa, India 

Surgery

• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigrah, India - 1967-1970
• Master of Surgery (MS)
• General Surgery and Specialties, Boston University Medical Center and Harvard University, Affiliated Hospitals Boston, Mass., 1973-1977
• Shock Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Children's Hospital National Medical Center,  Pediatric Burn, Washington, D.C. 1977-1979

Credentialed Areas:

Board Certified:

• American Board of Surgery, 1982
• Recertified, 1992 and 2003

Honors, Awards & Society Memberships:

• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Medical Association Member
• Medical Society of the District of Columbia
• Member Society of Critical Care Medicine
• American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Member University Association of Emergency Medicine
• Member American Trauma Society
• Member American Heart Association
• American Association for Automotive Medicine
• Member Association of Surgeons of India
• Member American Burn Association
• New York Academy of Science, Member
• Maryland Medico-surgical Society Member
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine (Honorary)
• International Society of Surgery
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

• President, Clinical Club of Washington, 1978-1979
• DC Medical Society, Emergency Medical Services, Member
• MASPEN (Nutrition) Mid-Atlantic, Board of Directors
• District of Columbia, Paramedic Review Board, Chairman
• Indian Medical Association of Greater Washington, Scientific and Membership
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Critical Care Committee, Member 1978 to 1996
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Member - 1980-1990
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Nutrition Committee, Member 1979 to 2000
• DC Emergency Medical Services Committee, Member
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Blood Bank/Blood Transfusion Committee, Member 1982-1992
• Medatlantic Health Care Corporation, Product Standardization Committee, Member, 1980-1988
• Credentials Committee, Dept of Surgery, Chairman 1992-1994
• Quality Assurance Committee, Department of Surgery, Member 1992-1994
• Residency Review Committee
• Interfaith Organization for Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention, Member
• Hindu Temple and Center for Vedic Education, Metropolitan Washington, D.C. - Chairman
• National Association of Americans of Asian Indian Origin, 1986-1990 President

Awards

• Burnschwick Memorial International Trust Fund Merit Scholarship Medical Education, Government of West Germany - 1962-1965
• Best paper in Cardiac Physiology Symposium. Medical College, Burla, India-1964
  "Effect of ionotropic agents on myocardial performance"

   

• Best teacher of the year. 1986-1987
• Edward Cornwell Award
• Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC - 1988. Trauma Care and First Responder teaching Appreciation Award
• SID, SA - 1989
• Outstanding Community Service and Political Leadership Award
• Mayors' Distinguished Service to Washington DC Citizens - 1993 Recognition Award
• Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA - 1996
• Outstanding Trauma Surgeon
• From President/Medical Director -1998 "Very best and outstanding service to the patients

Additional Training, Education & Research:

• Effect of Zopolrestation preventing arresting diabetic neuropathy. Surgical investigator for Surreal nerve biopsy. Sponsored by Pfizer Pharmaceutical - 1998-1999
• Prevention of intra-abdominal adhesions with the application of Seprafilm. Co-investigator. Sponsored by Genzyme Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts - 1998-1999
• Intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the locally advanced Adeno Carcinoma of Pancreas. Research work in progress at Washington Cancer Institute.
• Effect on Tumor Index and gene mutation with Glivac neoadjuvent therapy in malignant GIST. Research in progress at Washington Cancer Institute, MedStar Research.
• "Validity of measurement of lactic acid and tissue oxygen (optode) content as end point of shock resuscitation". Abstract. Presented in International Society of Surgery/TATSIC Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 2001
• "Controversies in the diagnosis and management of lower gastro­intestinal bleeding, single urban major medical center experience". Abstract - accepted by ISS/Conference, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand. Cancelled for SARS