Dr. Dasgupta is a sleep medicine attending at as well as an assistant program director of internal medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (beyondthepearls.net; rajdasgupta.com).
Dr. Dasgupta completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Irvine in 1997; completed his medical degree at the Medical University of Silesia in Poland in 2003; completed an Internal Medicine residency at Michigan State University in 2006; completed a fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care at St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University in 2010; then completed a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan in 2011.
In case you didn’t catch it, Dr. Dasgupta is quadruple board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, and so when not practicing sleep medicine, he practices pulmonary / critical care. One of his passions, however, is resoundingly for medical education, and he has received the faculty teaching award for the last 3 years in a row at Keck. In addition, Dr. Dasgupta has taught USMLE Step 1, 2, and 3 as well as Internal Medicine Board Review prep classes around the world for the past 14 years, and he just published the 1st book in a series he authored titled “Medicine Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls”printed by Elsevier. Of note, Dr. Dasgupta has appeared on various media platforms and television shows
such as the “The Doctors”, “The Wellness Hour”, “ESPN” ,“Larry King Now” and “You Can Do Better”. Dr. Dasgupta is Raj Dasgupta MD on Facebook and @DoctorRajD on Twitter, and he can also be found on his personal website at beyondthepearls.net and rajdasgupta.com
Please enjoy with Dr. Raj Dasgupta!
Selected Show Notes
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
TUMS episodes referenced:
- Ep 009 – Ob/Gyn with Dr. Marjorie Greenfield
- Ep 043 – Critical Care Medicine (via Internal Medicine) with Dr. Rozy Khan
Books:
- Medicine Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls
- Pediatrics Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls
- Psychiatry Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls
- Surgery Morning Report: Beyond the Pearls
For a list of all book recommendations made on the show, see the TUMS Resources page.