Dr. Nandita Ghosal

Dr. Nandita Ghosal

Senior Consultant - Pathology & Blood Bank

MD (Pathology),FRCPath(UK)

Speciality

Department - Department of Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Nandita Ghosal is a well-known histopathologist and cytopathologist with an experience of more than 20 years in the field. She is a dedicated neuropathologist and has a strong academic background with more than 100 publications and active involvement in writing projects. She completed her MBBS from Lady Hardinge Medical College and MD (Pathology) followed by senior residency from All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi. Before joining Sakra as a Senior Consultant pathologist, she worked as full time Consultant Pathologist and Head of Lab Medicine in Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, which is tertiary care centre for neuro and cardiac sciences for 12 years.

Her compassionate nature and strong sense of social responsibility has compelled her to provide her expertise as a voluntary service for the needy at SSSIHMS, Bangalore

Dr. Nandita Ghosal completed her MBBS from Lady Hardinge Medical College and MD (Pathology) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Subsequently she completed her senior residency in Department of Pathology and Haemato –Oncopathology (IRCH), AIIMS, New Delhi.

She is an expert neuropathologist with vast experience in neuro-oncopathology. Surgical neuropathology is a very challenging speciality of anatomical pathology due to the intrinsic complexity of the human brain which most general pathologists find difficult to interpret due to lack of adequate training and experience. Neuro-oncopathology is a superspecialised branch of histopathology especially in the upcoming era of molecular oncology, it is becoming mandatory to integrate the morphological and the molecular diagnosis of brain tumours. This is essential for adequate treatment and further prognostication of these challenging cases.

Having trained in the premier institute (AIIMS) and further being a practising pathologist, she is well versed with reporting of oncopathology, general pathology and cytopathology.

She has more than 100 publications in indexed national and international journals of repute.
She has been invited as a faculty in various national conferences.
She is an official reviewer for following indexed journals:
- Acta Cytologica
- Diagnostic Cytopathology
- Indian Journal of cancer
- World Journal of Surgical Oncology
- Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
- Journal of Clinical Imaging Science
She was awarded best educational exhibit for 2 consecutive years:
- Pictorial review of extra osseous cystic lesions of spine: Approach to diagnosis.” in 98th scientific assembly & Annual meeting of Radiologist Society of North America , Chicago, 2012
- “Unusual sellar suprasellar lesions- Imaging features and diagnostic challenges.” in 99th scientific assembly & Annual meeting of Radiologist Society of North America , Chicago, 2013
She was a thesis guide for DNB dissertation entitled “Petrous apex lesion: Characterisation by CT and MRI” in 2014.
Projects: She is currently involved in a project of national repute on Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesion.