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{{Short description|Indian gastroenterologist (1931–2018)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Badri Nath Tandon
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|08|01}}
| birth_place = India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2018|03|05|1931|08|01}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|[[New Delhi]], India}}
| occupation = Gastroenterologist Hepatologist Medical academic
| yearsactive = Since 1962
| known for = Gastroenterology Hepatology Child nutrition
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] Sasakawa WHO Health Prize [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences|RAMS]] Jubilee Medal Kent Memorial Award [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] Lifetime Achievement Award ISG Lifetime Achievement Award
}}

'''Badri Nath Tandon''' (1 August 1931 – 5 March 2018) was an Indian [[gastroenterologist]], [[hepatologist]], medical researcher and academic, and the Chairman and Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology, at Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute, [[Noida]].<ref name="B N Tandon on CrediHealth">{{cite web | url=https://www.credihealth.com/doctor/b-n-tandon-gastroenterologist/education | title=B N Tandon on CrediHealth | publisher=CrediHealth | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is a former Professor and Head of Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]] (AIIMS) and a former Director and Senior Consultant of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases, New Delhi.<ref name="Indian Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N89-1039 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813002401/http://www.insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N89-1039 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=13 August 2016 | title=Indian Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> He is a recipient of several awards including [[Sasakawa WHO Health Prize]] and Jubilee Medal of the [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences|RAMS]]. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1986, for his contributions to medicine.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Badri Nath Tandon, born on 1 August 1931<ref name="Brief Profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.purplehealth.com/2921-DrBNTandon | title=Brief Profile | publisher=Purple Health | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> in a [[Khatri]] family,<ref name="Eminent khatri personalities">{{cite web | url=http://www.khatrisabhancr.com/eminent-khatri-personalities/ | title=Eminent khatri personalities | publisher=Khatri Sabha | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909100305/http://www.khatrisabhancr.com/eminent-khatri-personalities/ | archive-date=9 September 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> graduated in medicine (MBBS) from [[King George Medical College]], Lucknow and secured his post-graduate degree (MD) from the same institution.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> Subsequently, he joined [[Harvard Medical School]], Boston for advanced training in gastroenterology followed by training in Nutrition Science at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], Cambridge.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> He started his career at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1962 as a member of faculty where he stayed till 1991. It was during this period he founded the Department of Gastroenterology at AIIMS, serving the department as its head and as a Professor at the Human Nutrition Unit till his superannuation from AIIMS service on 31 August 1991.<ref name="Introduction ">{{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/Gastro/gastrointro.htm | title=Introduction | publisher=All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> In 1993, he shifted to Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases, New Delhi as its director and senior consultant and served the institution till 2000 when he moved to Metro Group of Hospitals, Noida as its chairman, a post he holds till date.<ref name="Indian Fellow" />

Tandon was associated with several medical and socio-medical initiatives. When the [[Integrated Child Development Services]] (Anganwadi) scheme was introduced in India, with assistance from [[UNICEF]], in 1975, he chaired the technical committee of the program from inception till 1995.<ref name="Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS): An Assessment">{{cite journal | url=http://nutritionfoundationofindia.org/pdfs/BulletinArticle/nfi_01_93.pdf | title=Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS): An Assessment | author=B N Tandon | journal=Bulletin of the Nutrition Foundation of India | date=January 1993 | volume=14 | issue=1 | access-date=8 May 2016 | archive-date=2 June 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602191045/http://nutritionfoundationofindia.org/pdfs/BulletinArticle/nfi_01_93.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> He served as the chairman of the ''Task Force of Liver Diseases'' initiated by the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] (ICMR) and is the incumbent chair of the ''Digestive Diseases Foundation of India'' and the ''Digestive Diseases Research Foundation''.<ref name="Brief Profile" /> He has been the president of such societies as International Association of Liver Diseases, Asian Pacific Association for the Study of Liver, Indian Society of Gastroenterology<ref name="Archive History">{{cite web | url=http://www.isg.org.in/indexmain.php?do=menu3&lmid=1&lm2id=1 | title=Archive History | publisher=Indian Society of Gastroenterology | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603220512/http://www.isg.org.in/indexmain.php?do=menu3&lmid=1&lm2id=1 | archive-date=3 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and Nutrition Society of India (1995–99)<ref name="NSI Presidents">{{cite web | url=http://www.nutritionsocietyindia.org/ | title=NSI Presidents | publisher=Nutrition Society of India | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-date=17 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017150855/http://www.nutritionsocietyindia.org/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the vice-president of the [[World Gastroenterology Organisation]].<ref name="B N Tandon on CrediHealth" />

Tandon is known to have conducted pioneering research on bowel diseases, effects of malnutrition on intestine, pancreas and liver and the role of pathogens and food toxins in various diseases.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> His work on veno-occlusive disease of the liver helped in the discovery that [[pyrrolizidine alkaloids]] present in the [[Crotalaria|Jhunjhunia]] seeds could cause the disease.<ref name="Nuns Work Where None Work">{{cite web | url=http://www.ascopost.com/issues/march-10-2016/nuns-work-where-none-work/?platform=hootsuite | title=Nuns Work Where None Work | publisher=Asco Post | date=10 March 2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | author=Jame Abraham}}</ref> He is also credited with the isolation of [[Hepatitis E virus]] and the introduction of a new therapeutic protocol of the Hepatitis E as well as [[Hepatitis C]] using herbal plants.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> His researches have been documented in over 225 medical papers and four monographs.<ref name="Badri Nath Tandon on Microsoft Academic Search">{{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/53884787/badri-nath-tandon | title=Badri Nath Tandon on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603055137/http://65.54.113.26/Author/53884787/badri-nath-tandon | archive-date=3 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Badri Nath Tandon on Aminer">{{cite web | url=https://aminer.org/profile/badri-nath-tandon/53f4367fdabfaee4dc783b40 | title=Badri Nath Tandon on Aminer | publisher=Aminer | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="Publications of Dr. B.M. Gandhi">{{cite web | url=http://www.neobiomed.com/publication.php | title=Publications of Dr. B.M. Gandhi | publisher=Neobiomed Services | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> He has also published two text books, ''Textbook Of Tropical Gastroenterology'',<ref name="Textbook Of Tropical Gastroenterology">{{cite book | title=Textbook Of Tropical Gastroenterology | publisher=Oxford University Press |author1=B. N. Tandon |author2=Samiran Nundy | date=January 1988 | pages=350 | isbn=9780195620993}}</ref> and ''Tropical Hepato-Gastroenterology'',<ref name="Tropical Hepato-Gastroenterology">{{cite book | title=Tropical Hepato-Gastroenterology | publisher=Elsevier India | author=B. N. Tandon | date=November 2010 | pages=804 | isbn=978-8131203132}}</ref> and has contributed 13 chapters to text books written by others.<ref name="Indian Fellow" /> Besides being the founder editor of ''Tropical Gastroenterology'' journal,<ref name="About Us">{{cite web | url=http://www.tropicalgastro.com/about-the-journal.htm | title=About Us | publisher=Tropical Gastroenterology | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-date=30 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430212058/http://www.tropicalgastro.com/about-the-journal.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> he also sat on the editorial boards of several national and international journals; National Medical Journal, Ceylon Medical Journal, Asian Pacific Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hepatology Communication, European Journal of Hepatology, [[Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology]] and Gastroenterology International counting among them.<ref name="Indian Fellow" />

Badri Nath Tandon died in [[New Delhi]] on 5 March 2018, at the age of 86.<ref>{{cite web |title=Badri Nath Tandon (1 August 1931 – 5 March 2018) |url=https://nmji.in/badri-nath-tandon-1-august-1931-5-march-2018/ |website=The National Medical Journal of India |access-date=30 November 2023}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
Tandon was a Fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]], elected to the position in 1974.<ref name="List of NAMS Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf | title=List of NAMS Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> He was also a Fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]], Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicines and the Indian Public Health Association.<ref name="B N Tandon on CrediHealth" /> The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1986.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> He received the [[Sasakawa WHO Health Prize]] of the [[World Health Organization]] in 1990 and the Jubilee Medal of the [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences]] in 1995.<ref name="Dr. B N Tandon — Doctor Babu">{{cite web | url=http://doctorbabu.co.in/doctor/dr-b-n-tandon/ | title=Dr. B N Tandon — Doctor Babu | publisher=Doctor Babu | date=2016 | access-date=7 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602225955/http://doctorbabu.co.in/doctor/dr-b-n-tandon/ | archive-date=2 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He delivered several award orations such as ''Dr. R.V. Rajam Oration'' (1983–84) of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]],<ref name="List of NAMS Fellows" /> and was also a recipient of Kent Memorial Award of the National Homoeopathic Association (1998), Lifetime Achievement Award of the New Delhi chapter of the [[Indian Medical Association]] (2004) and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian society of Gastroenterology (2007).<ref name="Indian Fellow" />

== See also ==
* [[List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni]]
* [[King George's Medical University]]
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal | title=Demographic, clinical, and virological characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma in Asia: Survey of 414 patients from four countries | author=Bao-En Wang | author2=Wei-Min Ma | author3=Ali Sulaiman | author4=Sjaifoellah Noer | author5=Suwignyo Sumoharjo | author6=Didacus Sumarsidi | author7=Badri Nath Tandon | author8=Kuniaki Nakao | author9=Shunji Mishiro | author10=Yuzo Miyakawa | author11=Yoshihiro Akahane | author12=Hiroshi Suzuki | name-list-style=amp | journal=Journal of Medical Virology | date=July 2002 | volume=67 | issue=3 | pages=394–400 | doi=10.1002/jmv.10087| pmid=12116033 | s2cid=26111895 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Localization of a new enteric non-A, non-B [HEV] virus in target organ liver |author1=Hema Gupta |author2=Bhanu Iyenger |author3=Badri Nath Tandon | journal=Gastroenterologia Japonica | date=February 1993 | volume=28 | issue=1 | pages=46–50 | doi=10.1007/BF02775002|pmid = 8440423|s2cid=23118005 }}
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(85)71995-5/abstract | title=Diagnosis of ileocecal and colonic tuberculosis by colonoscopy | author=Dinesh K. Bhargava | author2=H.D. Tandon | author3=T.C. Chawla | author4=Shriniwas | author5=B.N. Tandon | author6=B.M.L. Kapur | journal=Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | date=April 1985 | volume=31 | issue=2 | pages=68–70 | doi=10.1016/S0016-5107(85)71995-5| pmid=3922847 | url-access=subscription }}

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