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Introduction Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar is an internationally renowned expert in the field of treatment of infertility and test tube babies. He is one of the pioneers in this subject in India and involved in research in infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as IVF ( In-Vitro Fertilisation, commonly called test-tube baby technology), ICSI ( Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection), IUI (Intra-Uterine Insemination) for last 27 years since 1982.


Education
Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar received his MBBS degree and also his M.D in Obstetrics and Gynecology from R.G.Kar Medical College, then affiliated to University of Calcutta. He traveled abroad extensively for advanced training in different aspects of ART such as andrology and embryology from Cornell University/ Weill Medical Center, New York and The Albert Einstein Institute in the United States of America.


Initiation into Research
Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar was a beloved student of late Dr. Subhas Mukherjee who was successful in delivering India's first test tube baby in 1978, the same year that Dr. Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe delivered the World's first IVF baby in Cambridge, England. His novel work however met with intense criticism from the medical community since his work was not very standardized and he did not maintain any meticulous records or micro-photographic evidence of the program. He was ostracized and committed suicide, which even inspired a motion picture in Hindi. After Dr. Mukherjee's death Dr. Ghosh Dastidar took on the mantle to develop India's second test-tube baby program in Calcutta in 1982 from scratch in collaboration with Dr. B. Chakravarty.


Research and career
Their program was successful in delivering Imran, India's second test-tube baby by IVF in 1986, which created a stir and was widely covered in the press. Before that they, for the first time in India, were successful in achieving pregnancies by IUI and reported it in the 3rd World Congress on IVF, Helsinki, Finland in 1984. In 1991 Dr. Ghosh Dastidar established Calcutta's second test tube baby program in gariahat, Calcutta which is credited with the birth of India's first test-tube baby by ICSI technology, widely considered to be the biggest advancement in infertility research since IVF in 1978. He expanded Ghosh Dastidar Institute for Fertility Research to 36 A/1 S.P.Mukherjee road in 2007 and till now has delivered thousands of babies by IVF and ICSI. He has delivered lectures and presented research papers in various international conferences and meetings, the latest being at the ESHRE annual conference in Amsterdam in June, 2009.


Memberships
Dr. Ghosh Dastidar was invited by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to be on the National Expert Advisory Panel on IVF formed by the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research) to draft guidelines to regulate, accredit and supervise IVF centers in India. He is the only member from India in of the International Task Force for IVF in third World Countries constituted by The European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). He is also a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS).


Family
His wife Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is an expert in Doppler and 3-Dimensional Ultrasound and specializes in imaging for reproductive medicine. She is an active member of their Institute and its research program. She is also a Member of Parliament from Barasat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. They have two sons both of whom are doctors.