Dissertations Doctoral Thesis Defence: Saibal Das

24-03-2026 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Add to iCal
Hybrid Venue: In Inghesalen, Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A and on Zoom Online: Connect to the event

Welcome to Saibal Das' doctoral thesis defence.

Thesis title: Medication Safety in Older Adults in India: Polypharmacy, Self-Medication, Deprescribing, and Informal Care Provider Interventions

Main supervisor:
Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet

Co supervisors: 
Dr. Ashish Pathak, Affiliated Researcher, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India 
Dr. Samiran Panda, Former Additional Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India and Chairperson, Research Advisory Committee, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India
Dr. Santanu Kumar Tripathi, Director - Research and Training, and Former Principal, Jagannath Gupta Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital, KolkataIndia

Opponent: 
Ylva Böttiger, Professor, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University

Examination board members: 
Björn Wettermark, Professor, Department of Pharmacy; Drug Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 
Katharina Schmidt-Mende, Docent, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet,
Neda Agahi, Docent, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet