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2017 - till date
Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, icddrb
2016 - till date
Head, Clinical Research, Hospitals, icddr,b
2014
PhD (Pediatric Respiratory Medicine), University of Melbourne, Australia
2013 - 2016
Scientist, Centre for Nutrition and Food Security
2012 - till date
Clinical Lead, ICU, Dhaka Hospital, icddr,b
Adjunct faculty in the Department of Pharmacy, the East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Course Director of Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life support (ACLS) aimed to train all doctors and nurses in Dhaka Hospital of icddr,b at least once a year
2011 - 2012
Associate Scientist, Clinical Sciences Division, icddr,b
2010
MMed (Pediatrics) from the Royal Children`s Hospital, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2007 - 2010
Assistant Scientist, Clinical Sciences Division & Senior Medical Officer, Dhaka Hospital, cddr,b
2002 - 2006
Medical Officer, Dhaka Hospital, Clinical Sciences Division, icddr,b
2000 - 2002
Study Medical Officer, Immunology Section, Laboratory Sciences Division, icddr,b
1998 - 2000
Clinical Fellow, Dhaka Hospital, Clinical Sciences Division, icddr,b
1996
MBBS from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh
My research focuses on pediatric infectious diseases with my expertise and special interest in pediatric critical care medicine and pediatric respiratory medicine, predominantly those that are common in resource limited settings. My research has a particular focus on childhood pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchiolitis, asthma, sepsis, malnutrition, enteric encephalopathy and diarrheal complications (i.e. hypernatremia, hyponatremia, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, ileus etc). I have a particular interest in low cost innovative work and their scale up in resource limited settings in reducing under-five childhood mortality especially from pneumonia, sepsis and malnutrition. As a clinical researcher my further aim is to help our junior hospital colleagues to be involved in innovative low cost research work that we can translate those in our clinical services.Â
2016
Life member and Scientific Secretary of the Bangladesh Pediatric Pulmonology Forum
Editor of Current Therapeutic Research (Elsevier journal)
2015
People`s Choice Award for Most Promising Childhood Pneumonia Innovation in World Pneumonia Day (November 12) in New York city, USA
Rated by Global Pneumonia Innovation Team as one of the 10 best global childhood pneumonia innovations
2015 - till date
Member of Global Pneumonia Innovation Team
Life member of Bangladesh Society of Critical Care Medicine
Nominated for the Chancellor`s Prize 2015 for the excellence in PhD thesis by PhD examiner in the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Section Editor of Bangladesh Critical Care Medicine
2012
Australian Alumni Excellence Award for “Research and Innovation” by the Australian Government
2009 - till date
Member of the Centre for International Child Health, The Royal Children`s Hospital, the University of Melbourne (Hub of WHO)
2000 - till date
Member of Bangladesh Asthma Association
Chisti MJ, Shahunja KM, Afroze F, Shahid ASMSB, Sharifuzzaman, Ahmed T. Hypoxaemia and septic shock were independent risk factors for mechanical ventilation in Bangladeshi children hospitalised for diarrhea. Acta Paediatrica 2017; 106: 1159-1164
Chisti MJ, Duke T, Salam MA, Shahunja KM, Shahid ASMSB, Bardhan PK, Faruque ASG, Ahmed T. Impact of diarrhea on the clinical presentation and outcome of severe pneumonia in Bangladeshi children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2016; 35: 1161-1162
Chisti MJ, Salam MA, Smith JH, Ahmed T, Pietroni MAC, Shahunja KM, Shahid ASMSB, Faruque ASG, Ashraf H, Bardhan PK, Sharifuzzaman, Graham SM, Duke T. Bubble CPAP compared to standard- and high-flow oxygen therapy for children with severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a randomized trial. Lancet 2015; 386 (9998): 1057-65
Chisti MJ, Salam MA, Bardhan PK, Faruque ASG, Shahid ASMSB, Shahunja KM, Das SK, Hossain MI, Ahmed T. Treatment failure and mortality amongst children with severe acute malnutrition presenting with cough or respiratory difficulty and radiological pneumonia. PLoS ONE 2015; 10: e0140327
Chisti MJ, Graham SM, Duke T, Ahmed T, Faruque ASG, Ashraf H, Bardhan PK, Shahid ASMSB, Shahunja KM, Salam MA. Post-discharge mortality in children with severe malnutrition and pneumonia in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 2014; 9: e107663
Chisti MJ, Graham SM, Duke T, Ahmed T, Ashraf H, Faruque ASG, La Vincente S, Banu S, Raqib R, Salam MA. A prospective study of the prevalence of tuberculosis and bacteraemia in Bangladeshi children with severe malnutrition and pneumonia including an evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF assay. PLoS ONE 2014; 9: e93776
Chisti MJ, Duke T,RobertsonCF, Ahmed T, Faruque ASG, Ashraf H, La Vincente S, Bardhan PK, Salam MA. Clinical predictors and outcome of hypoxaemia among under-five diarrheal children with or without pneumonia in an urban hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2012; 17: 106-111
Chisti MJ, Salam MA, Smith JH, Ahmed T, Ashraf H, Bardhan PK, Pietroni MAC. Impact of lack of breast feeding during neonatal age on the development of clinical signs of pneumonia and hypoxemia in young infants with diarrhea. PLoS ONE 2011; 6:e25817.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025817
Chisti MJ, Faruque ASG, Khan WA, Das SK, Zabed MB, and Salam MA. Characteristics of children with Shigella encephalopathy: experience from a large urban diarrhea treatment centre in Bangladesh. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2010; 29: 444-47.
Chisti MJ, Tebruegge M, La Vincente S, Graham SMand Duke T. Pneumonia in severely malnourished children in developing countries: mortality risk, aetiology and validity of WHO clinical signs: a systematic review. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2009; 14: 1173-1189
