Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and the Clinical Laboratory

Amitava Dasgupta received his Ph. D in chemistry from Stanford University and completed his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle. He is board certified in both Toxicology and Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Director of Clinical Laboratories at the University of Kansas Hospital. Prior to this appointment he was a tenured Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas McGovern medical School from February 1998 to April 2022. He has 252 papers to his credit. He is in the editorial board of four journals including Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Clinica Chimica Acta, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.

1. Alcohol a double-edged sword: Health benefits with moderate consumption but a health hazard with excess alcohol intake

2. Drugs of abuse: An overview

3. Designer drugs including bath salts and spices

4. Combined alcohol and drug abuse: A potentially deadly mix

5. Link between environmental factors, personality factors, and addiction

6. Genetic polymorphisms of alcohol metabolizing enzymes associated with protection from or increased risk of alcohol abuse

7. Pharmacogenomics of abused drugs

8. Association between polymorphisms in genes encoding various receptors, transporters, and enzymes and alcohol/drug addiction

9. Methods of alcohol measurement

10. Laboratory methods for measuring drugs of abuse in urine

11. Analysis of drugs of abuse in serum, hair, oral fluid, sweat, and meconium