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Dr. Rivu Raj Chakraborty

About

A surgeon, a teacher, and a neighbour

Dr. Rivu Raj Chakraborty has spent his whole career in the emergency and trauma services of Bangladesh's public teaching hospitals — and his weekends in the village he grew up in.

Profile

In his own words

I am an experienced trauma surgeon and surgical critical care consultant, and I have worked in this field in a teaching and service-oriented hospital for the last 15 years.

During this period I have been engaged in both graduate and post-graduate teaching at Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh. Besides the teaching and clinical service, I actively lead the trauma research at this institution.

Recently, along with six other enthusiastic faculty members, I founded an organisation — the Trauma Foundation — to lead trauma care in Bangladesh and to promote trauma education and training in this country.

Speaks
BengaliEnglish
Areas of expertise
Trauma surgeryEmergency surgical careSurgical critical careProject managementGroup leadership
Professional interests
Trauma research and professional developmentEntrepreneurshipSocial welfare
Away from work
PhotographyMusicPaintingEvent decoration
Dr. Rivu Raj Chakraborty beside the Operational Excellence Champion 2024 award won by the emergency team
Receiving a crest at a continuing medical education programme at Rangamati Medical College

Academic qualifications

Degrees and specialist training

Each one explained, because medical abbreviations rarely mean much outside a hospital.

  1. May 2013

    International Visiting Fellowship in Traumatology

    Tulane University

    Louisiana, USA

    Advanced training in treating severe injuries, at one of the busiest trauma centres in the United States.

  2. January 2011

    FCPS (Surgery)

    Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Bangladesh's highest specialist qualification in surgery — the degree that makes a doctor a consultant surgeon.

  3. September 2001

    MBBS

    Chittagong Medical College

    Chattogram, Bangladesh

    The basic medical degree that qualifies a person as a doctor.

Work experience

Where he has worked

From a 30-bed rural hospital to a Level 1 trauma centre in New Orleans, and back to the casualty department he now leads.

  1. June 2023 — present

    Current

    Assistant Professor (Casualty) & Head of Casualty Department

    Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram

    Leads the emergency department where the city's most seriously injured patients arrive first.

  2. December 2019 — June 2023

    Assistant Professor (Surgery), Department of Surgery

    Rangamati Medical College, Rangamati

    Ran surgical services and taught medical students in the hill districts.

  3. November 2013 — December 2019

    Junior Consultant (Casualty) & Unit Chief, Casualty Unit

    Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chattogram

    Headed one of the emergency units of a 1,500-bed teaching hospital.

  4. May 2013 — October 2013

    Visiting Resident, Trauma & Acute Care Surgery

    Tulane School of Medicine at Interim LSU Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Centre), New Orleans, USA

    Worked alongside American trauma teams at a top-level trauma centre.

  5. From July 2012

    Registrar (Surgery)

    Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chattogram

  6. December 2010 — July 2012

    Registrar (Orthopaedics & Traumatology)

    Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chattogram

    Treated broken bones and injuries of the limbs and spine.

  7. February 2010 — December 2010

    Doctor, Outpatient Department of ENT & Head-Neck Surgery

    Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chattogram

  8. July 2005 — July 2006

    Assistant Surgeon, 30-bed rural hospital

    Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh

    A year of service in a remote part of the country, often as the only surgeon available.

Affiliations

The institutions he belongs to

Hospitals, colleges and organisations where Dr. Chakraborty holds an appointment or a fellowship.

  • Chittagong Medical College & Hospital

    Assistant Professor (Casualty) and Head of the Casualty Department

    A 1,500-bed government teaching hospital serving the whole Chattogram division.

  • Trauma Foundation Bangladesh

    Founder General Secretary

    Founded with six other faculty members to lead trauma care, education and training in Bangladesh.

  • Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS)

    Fellow (FCPS, Surgery) and affiliated Basic Surgical Skills trainer

  • Evercare Hospital Chattogram

    Senior Consultant (Surgery) and Co-ordinator, Accident & Emergency Services

    Recognised with the Operational Excellence Champion 2024 award for Team Emergency.

  • Tulane University School of Medicine, USA

    International Visiting Fellow in Traumatology (2013)

Beyond Bangladesh

Trained and published internationally

In 2013 Dr. Chakraborty spent six months in New Orleans as a visiting resident with the trauma and acute care surgery team of Tulane School of Medicine, working at a Level 1 trauma centre — the highest category a trauma hospital can hold.

Since then he has presented research at the ELSA Summit in South Korea and at the Annual Surgical Congress of the Association for Academic Surgery in the United States, and has had papers accepted for presentation in Australia and South Africa.

See the research
Speaking at the Academic Surgical Congress of the Association for Academic Surgery
With colleagues at the Asia-Pacific Congress of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery in Korea
Delegates at a surgical workshop
I wish to blend with humanity and society through my work.
Dr. Rivu Raj Chakraborty

Plain English

What the medical words mean

A short list of the terms that appear across this site, explained in everyday language.

MBBS
The basic medical degree — what makes someone a doctor.
FCPS
Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons — the specialist qualification that makes a doctor a consultant surgeon in Bangladesh.
Trauma
Serious physical injury — from a road crash, a fall, a blast or an assault.
Casualty
The emergency department of a hospital, where injured and acutely ill patients arrive first.
BLS / ACLS / ATLS
Standard international courses in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support — how to keep a person alive in the first minutes and the first hour.
Laparotomy
An operation that opens the abdomen to find and fix the problem inside.
Minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery
Surgery done through a few small cuts with a camera, so patients heal faster and with less pain.

Next: the clinical and teaching work

What he operates on, what he teaches, and the courses he runs.

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