Prof. A.K Mukhopadhyay
Prof. & Head
(MBBS., MD., MNAMS., DSc.(Hons. Causa)
email : mukhoak53@yahoo.com
Personal Profile:
Dr. A. K. Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Laboratory Medicine since 01.07.2002, took over as the Head of the Department since 01.04.2006.
Medical graduate (MBBS) from University of Calcutta (1977), post graduate (MD) in pathology from AIIMS (1981), a Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India (1988).
In 1985 he was appointed as Lecturer in Pathology for Clinical Pathology for the Laboratory service area of AIIMS hospital and became an integral part of the movement that transformed this service area into a Department which materialized in 1988. He was officiating Head of the department from 01.06.94 to 26.03.96. He led the draft proposal committee for a 3-year residency program leading to MD degree in Laboratory Medicine that was approved by the Governing body of AIIMS in 1996.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
Life Member, Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists, , Life Member, Association of Clinical Biochemists of India, Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association, Life Member, Indian Medical Association, Life Member, International Academy of Pathology, Member, New York Academy of Sciences, USA, Fellow, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, USA., Honorary Affiliate, The Center for Frontier Sciences, Temple University, USA., Member, Society for Scientific Exploration, USA., Member, Scientific and Medical Network, U.K., Member, Unarius Academy of Sciences, USA., Member, Indian Academy of Yoga., Member, Indian Medical Association
Invited by Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Science as an observer from India in their Meeting on Science for Man and Man for Science in 1999.
In the panel of Expert of Important Committees:
Chairperson, Experimental Animal Welfare Committee of AIIMS, Member of Disaster Committee, AIIMS, Expert / Consultant in JDW National Reference Hospital, Thimpu, Bhutan, Specification Committee member of six AIIMS-like Institutes, Ministry of Health, Govt. of India.
Research Interest:
Chief Supervisor of 3 Ph.D. and 5 MD students, Co-Supervisor of 4 Ph.D. students and 15 MD students, Doctoral Committee member of 6 Ph.D. students
Within Paradigm Research
1. Alzheimer’s disease
Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and Vascular dementia
2. Depression and Interleukins
3. Coagulation abnormalities in Acute liver failure and Acute pancreatic failure
4. Antioxidant properties of the plant Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi)
Research Interest in emerging New Paradigm
Dr. A. K. Mukhopadhyay is a theoretical scientist and works with Ideas. His Research interest is in finding out the link between ‘local’ science and ‘non local’ science. The fields of interest are as follows:
| 1. | Integral approach in Developing a Science for Consciousness (browse through website on consciousness: http://www.akmukhopadhyayconsciousness.com |
| 2. | Supracortical Consciousness; The evolutionary first step taken by brain-bound consciousness to make sense of brain-independent consciousness. Mechanism of Supracortico-cortical and Cortico-supracortical communication. |
| 3. | Integral divisions of the
Indivisible Whole: Experience, Purpose, Time, Space, Matter. `Life’ as an integral of Life-principle working within a specific form (space, time) of matter elevated to the level of ‘living state’. Triple Helix of Life, Information and Mind |
| 4. | How the Mechanics of Consciousness could be connected with the mechanics of matter and energy (quantum and classical mechanics) through the mechanics of Elemental plane and the Mechanics of Mother Nature. |
| 5. | Nested hierarchy in organization of Nature: The hierarchy of uncertainty. Pentaune Model of Nature-Consciousness. |
| 6. | Five components of a composite model of psyche; Consciousness, self, Private facet of self, Mind and Information. Psychic Skeleton and the Pathogenetic mechanism of psychosomatic disease. |
| 7. | The phase transition through `Death’; Near-death experience, transcendental death experience, transformational death experience and the experience of getting re-born in the same body. Correlation of experiential with neuro-phenomenology |
| 8. | Interrelationship between Brain and consciousness, Gene and Information, Information and Consciousness, memes and information, self and information. |
| 9. | Transition of homo sapiens to homo spiritualis. Its scientific basis. |
| 10. |
The Science of Information. Dr. Mukhopadhyay holds a radical view on information which he considers is an ‘entity’ in phase beyond the Planck’s scale. Areas of special interest are:
i. Relation of Information with space time and
energy. The role of mind or mind-like structure ii. Information Mechanics iii. Information Geometry iv. Ontological category of Information v. The Point where the Mind, World and Infinity meet |
Information-split as a
process is involved in creation of space time in one hand, and opens up
hitherto unexplored
resource of information-based energy on the other hand.
Information-based energy is
pollution-free, inexpensive and exhaustible. It leads us to the dawn
of a new energy
revolution.
Information-split process also explains the psycho-somatic connection.
On these ideas, he has authored four Books (Link) that have been reviewed extensively in India and abroad.(link)