Instructor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
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Patient Care Related:Biosketch
Christopher Pinto, MD, is a family medicine resident and avid clinical case report writer. He is a merit graduate of Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi, India. At his government medical school, he was interested in stories of his patients, their present life and the complexity of their ailments. Christopher has written and published multi-district studies of hematological disorders within his community and case reports on zebra pathologies. His prior appointments was as a clinical assistant at the Primary Care Clinic of Hawaii and currently is a graduate remote researcher for his medical school. He is working to improve medical practices in areas stricken by poverty. His clinical, teaching and research include case writing, medical publishing and spread of affordable care in socially disadvantaged communities. His other interests include, stamp collecting and philosophy.
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Education and Training
- MBBS 2022, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi, India, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
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Publications
Pinto C.J., Agrawal H., Schmidt H., Tumah L. Fahr’s disease in a patient with recurrent pneumonias, parkinsonism and dementia BMJ Case Reports. 2024;17
Pinto C.J., Maldar S.B., Hegde S., Choukimath S.M. Radiological impact of oral bisphosphonate use on polyostotic Paget's disease of bone over a 2 year period Radiology Case Reports. 2024;19:1886-1892.
Maldar S.B., Pinto C.J., Kumar U., Vairaprakasam S.P. Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome with benign enlargement of subarachnoid space in infancy BMJ Case Reports. 2023;16
Pinto C.J., Maldar S.B., Wari P.K. Median canaliform dystrophy of Heller presenting as a body-focused repetitive behaviour BMJ Case Reports. 2023;16
Pinto C.J., Narayanaswamy M.H., Khatawkar A.V., Poornima J. Congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type II in a teenager presenting with severe anaemia BMJ Case Reports. 2023;16(2)
Talwar S., Gangoor N., Maldar S.B., Pinto C.J. Isolated unilateral pulmonary artery atresia in an adult presenting with cor pulmonale BMJ Case Reports. 2023;16
Maldar S.B., Pinto C.J. Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in a patient presenting with hypertensive encephalopathy BMJ Case Reports. 2022;15(10)
Mulla F., Bomanwar N., Sakhare S., Pinto C.J. Kimura's disease of the left arm BMJ Case Reports. 2022;15(8)