TRIPTY BHATTACHARYYA MEMORIAL TRUST

Mr. Arnab Bhattacharyya is the elder son of Mrs. Tripty Bhattacharyya and is the Founder of TRIPTY BHATTACHARYYA MEMORIAL TRUST. Mr. Bhattacharyya, a Chartered Civil Engineer, graduated in engineering in 1986 and completed Masters in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, University of Calcutta. He is the owner operator of a medium sized civil construction firm having reasonable footprint in Kolkata and nearby areas. He is a registered charted engineer with the Institution of Engineers and a member of the Indian Concrete Institute. Arnab Bhattacharyya has significant contribution in low cost housing construction management in association with Institution of Engineers Kolkata Chapter.

He has 6 years of experience in providing care for his mother with Alzheimer’s disease, and believes that successful approach for caring for Geriatric patients with Alzheimer’s disease are all about sincere understanding of another stage of life with its own joy, pain & experience.

Pallab K Bhattacharyya is the younger son of Mrs. Tripty Bhattacharyya and is founder-nominated mentor of the trust. An MRI physicist by profession, he is a professional staff in Diagnostic Radiology and Mellen Center at The Cleveland Clinic, USA. He also holds a non-tenured faculty position in Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 1997 specializing in low energy Nuclear Structure physics/chemistry. His primary research interest is in developing and implementing Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy protocols to measure different metabolite levels in brain and assessing safety of MRI scans with patients implanted with medical devices. He is the recipient of several federal and non-federal research awards. Pallab Bhattacharyya regularly donates to different charitable organizations, e.g. Alzheimer’s Association, Go Laadli and Asha for Education. In addition, since Covid outbreak, he has been donating food items on a regular basis to a local center devoted to answering challenges of an ageing society and older adults in relation to family and community. His detailed professional activities can be found here.

Priya Raman, M. Pharm., PhD, is an Associate Professor of Integrative Medical Sciences and Co-Director of Basic and Translational Biomedicine Graduate Program at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), USA. She is also a graduate faculty in the School of Biomedical Sciences  for Physiology, Pharmacology and Cell and Molecular Biology programs at Kent State University, USA. She obtained her Master’s degree from Jadavpur University, India (1992) followed by a PhD from University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA (1999), specializing in Pharmacology. Recipient of several federal and non-federal research awards, Dr. Raman’s primary research interest is in atherosclerotic complications associated with diabetes and obesity. She is also investigating the molecular mechanism(s) that mediate development and progression of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease-related pathology in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular abnormalities in the context of aging. For her detailed professional activities click here.

Ananya Banerjee, B.Ed. M.Sc. Gold Medalist, is a Post Graduate Teacher of Biology at Delhi Public School Ruby Park Kolkata. Ms. Banerjee has been an educator and guide to thousands of students over the course of her two-decade teaching career. She is an avid reader and animal lover in addition to mentoring students. She enjoys travelling and has always had a heart for helping others, whether through volunteering in old age homes or donating to charitable organizations. In her academic and teaching careers, she has secured several laurels, the most noteworthy of them being the ‘K.S. Rao Memorial’ medal and scholarship for highest marks in B.Sc. honours in the year 1993, and the ‘Professor H.L. Chakravorty’ Award from the National Botanical Society for standing first in M.Sc. examination from the department of Botany. Furthermore, she was awarded the ‘Excellence’ Certificate and Medal from the Minister of Human Resource and Development, Government of India in the field of teaching in 2014 and 2015.

Subha Ghosh Dastidar is a commerce graduate and MBA from Sikkim Manipal University having almost 25 years experience in health care management. She started her career as a front desk manager, where she successfully handled operations, finance, insurance and other major activities with a constant endeavor to ensure highest level of possible care for patients and their families. Ms. Ghosh Dastidar is well knowledgeable about the Government regulations in health care sector, and successfully evaluated and implemented strategies to improve operational efficiency in healthcare billing. She is instrumental
in spreading awareness of social organizations working in health care for downtrodden in rural Purulia and Sunderban areas of West Bengal, so that they can get necessary medical and hygienic supplies.