Mamun Al Mahtab

Recently Professor Mahtab played key role in organizing the First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference 2019 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka. This is the first ever scientific conference of only Bengali Hepatologists. The conference was jointly organized by Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh, Liver Foundation West Bengal and Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura. It was organized as a token of respect of the Bengali Hepatologists to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of the Nation of Bangladesh and the greatest Bengali of a thousand years on the occasion of his birth centennial. The second and third conferences will be organized in Shantiniketon and Agartala in March and August 2020 respectively.

He has conducted several clinical trials, which have been presented at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Principal Investigator of the Phase-I/II and III clinical trials of NASVAC, a new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in Bangladesh, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola. It is the first drug to be developed and registered in Bangladesh. NASVAC is also the ‘first novel molecule’ to be registered by the Directorate General of Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government.

Mahtab has compiled six books, namely ‘Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases’, published by Elsevier (2009), ’Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B’, published by Jaypee (2010), ‘Fatty Liver Disease’ (2012) and 'Hepatitis Management Update' (2015) published by McMillan and 'Text Book of Hepato-Gastroenterology' (2015) and 'Practical Hepato-Gastroenterology Prescriber' (2016) published by Jaypee.

He has to his credit organizing several ‘first time in Bangladesh’ medical conferences including the first STEMCON in 2017 (1st international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh) and first EndoVasculoCon in 2019 (1st live conference from endoscopy suit and vascular lab in the region).

He is only Bangladeshi Hepatologists among the 150 eminent Hepatologists from all over the globe, who proclaimed June 12 as ‘International NASH Day’ through a joint deceleration released simultaneously from London, Paris and New York in 2018.

He received the “Order of Merit” from Euroasian Gastroenterological Association in 2014, "Blumberg Oration 2015" conferred by Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India, "Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award" from Venus Research Foundation, India in 2016, “Albert Nelson Marquis Life Time Achievement Award 2018” from Marquis Who's Who and “Bishuddhananda Gold Medal” from Bangladesh Bouddha Krishty Prochar Songho in 2018. His name has been included in “Marquis Who’s Who of the World 2017”.

Professor Mahtab graduated from Mymensingh Medical College in 1995. He gained an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998 and subsequently did an MD in Hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in 2006. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology.

He spent his early life in Dhaka. His schooling started in Rosy Ann Centre, an English medium kindergarten. He subsequently switched to Banani Bidyaniketan and passed Secondary School Certificate examination in 1985 with star marks. He completed Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College in 1987 also with star marks.

He has published Bengali translations of 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' by Dr. Henry Kissinger and 'Victory in Bangladesh' by Major General (Retd.) Lachman Singh. He contributes articles on socio-political and health related issues regularly to mainstream newspapers and online news portals of Bangladesh. He has recently published three Bengali books, namely ‘Shekal Ekaler Korcha’ ‘Ekhon Shomoy Bangladesher’ from Mawla Brothers and ‘Liver Chikitshae Notun Sombhabona’ from Mutkodhara, which are leading publication houses of the country. He is a Life Member of Bangla Academy.