Vinod C Tawar
Kwantlen Medical Clinic, USA
Biography
Vinod C Tawar has earned BSc Hons. and BSc Tech. Pharmaceuticals from University of Bombay. He was offered a Teaching Assistantship at the School of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba, Canada, where he achieved a Post-graduate (MSc) degree in Pharmacology followed by working as a Toxicologist at a university hospital in Winnipeg for a duration of 10 years. In due course, he developed a toxicology laboratory for patient management and forensic purposes. This later became a reference laboratory for the Province of Manitoba. In 1981, he decided to study medicine and graduated Medicine in 1985. Subsequently, he joined Douglas Hospital Research Centre at McGill University as a Psychiatry Research Consultant with participation in projects on depression, Alzheimer’s disease, alcoholism and schizophrenia. Here he had co-authored many research papers. After 5 years, he was offered a two year Residency Position for licensure in general practice. Currently, he has been in an office based group family medicine practice for 16 years. Eight years ago, he has completed Post-graduate studies in Family Medicine for the specialty while working. During his practice, he had conducted research on depression, hypertension, GERD and asthma. At present, he has maintained his interest on nephropathy and challenging tasks of medicine.