Email

Pralay.Sarkar@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

Fellowship at University of Florida

06/2013 - Gainesville, Florida United States

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Internship at Calcutta Medical College

09/1996 - Calcutta, India

Residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

12/2009 - New Hyde Park, New York United States

Internal Medicine

Fellowship at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research

12/2002 - Chandigarh, India

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Residency at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research

12/1999 - Chandigarh, India

Internal Medicine

MBBS from Calcutta Medical College

01/1996 - Calcutta, India

Certifications

Internal Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine

Pulmonary Disease

American Board of Internal Medicine

Critical Care Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine

Examination of Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography (ASCeXAM)

National Board of Echocardiography (NBE)

Professional Interests

• Critical Care Ultrasonography
• Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography
• Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in critical care
• Lung cancer
• Advanced bronchoscopy
• Application of ultrasonography in triage of unstable medical patients to improve outcome

Websites

Selected Publications

• Medrek S, Bandi V, Xu Y, Sarkar P, Guy E, Kao C "Fatal Progressive Membranous Obliterative Bronchitis: A Sequela of Influenza?." J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2017 Jan;24(1):88-91. Pubmed PMID: 27984386
• Chandra S, Sarkar PK, Chandra D, Ginsberg NE, Cohen RI "Finding an alternative diagnosis does not justify increased use of CT-pulmonary angiography." BMC Pulm Med. 2013 Feb; Pubmed PMID: 23388541
• Aggarwal AN, Sarkar P, Gupta D, Jindal SK "Performance of standard severity scoring systems for outcome prediction in patients admitted to a respiratory intensive care unit in North India." Respirology. 2006 Mar;11(2):196-204. Pubmed PMID: 16548906
• Sarkar P, Patel N, Chusid J, Shah R, Talwar A "The role of computed tomography bronchography in the management of bronchopleural fistulas." J Thorac Imaging. 2010 Feb;25(1):W10-3. Pubmed PMID: 20160584

Memberships

American College of Chest Physicians

Fellow (07/2013)

Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh

Fellow (09/2016)