Shafique Sarker

Clinical Sciences Division, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health & Population Research, Bangladesh

Shafiqul Alam Sarker is a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh and has been in this position since 1979.

He obtained his Bachelor degree in Medicine (MBBS) from Bangladesh in 1977, MD from University of Basel, Switzerland in 1991, and PhD from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden in 2006. My areas of interest are Infectious diarrhoea, malnutrion, therapeutic intervention including immunoglobulin and probiotics in health and diseases, Helicobacter pylori infection, Anemia, iron deficiency anemia, etc.

He is a member of the Bangladesh Medical Association, the Bangladesh Society of Gastroenterology, the Asian Society for  Pediatric Research and the Nutrition Society of Bangladesh

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Gastroenterology & Hepatology > Gastrointestinal Infections (since 15 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.2
  Effect of eradication of Helicobacter pylori on incidence of metachronous gastric carcinoma after endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer: an open-label, randomised controlled trial.
  Recommended by Steven Moss, Shafique Sarker
  
• 8.0
  Toxigenic Helicobacter pylori infection precedes gastric hypochlorhydria in cancer relatives, and H. pylori virulence evolves in these families.
  Recommended by Niyaz Ahmed, Shafique Sarker
  
• 6.0
  B 221, a medical food containing antisecretory factor reduces child diarrhoea: a placebo controlled trial.
  Recommended by Shafique Sarker
  
• 3.0
  Iron deficiency and anemia prevalence and associated etiologic risk factors in First Nations and Inuit communities in Northern Ontario and Nunavut.
  Recommended by Shafique Sarker