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Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti

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Arunaloke Chakrabarti is the Director of the Doodhadhari Burfani Hospital in Haridwar, India. He is also the Ex-Head and Professor of the Department of Medical Microbiology of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh, India, where he oversaw the Center of Advance Research in Medical Mycology, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Reference and Research of Fungi of Medical Importance, and the National Culture Collection of Pathogenic Fungi. Additionally, he is the Past President of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).

As an expert in medical mycology, Professor Chakrabarti sits on the board of the ISHAM Asia Fungal Working Group and is an international coordinator of ISHAM Working Group on Fungal Sinusitis and Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. He is Chairman of the Fungal Infection Study Forum and international adviser of the Leading International Fungal Education, an international nongovernmental organization. He has published 477 papers in the field of fungal diseases in prestigious journals and has recently edited the books, Fungal Infections in Asia: The Eastern Frontier of Mycology, and Clinical Practice of Medical Mycology in Asia. In addition, he currently serves as section editor/editor/associate editor/deputy editor of four journals: Mycoses, Medical Mycology Case Reports, Current Fungal Infections Report, and the Journal of Medical Microbiology.

In recognition of his contributions, Professor Chakrabarti has received multiple awards from National Societies, Academies of India, and he was awarded the Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMS), Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Fellow of European Confederation of Medical Mycology (FECMM), and Fellow Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA). Recently, he has been selected to receive the 2022 ASM Moselio Schaechter Award.

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