Kishor Patwardhan ([email protected])

Prof. Kishor Patwardhan completed his BAMS from SDM College of Ayurveda, Udupi, in 1998, and his MD(Ay) in Kriya Sharir (Ayurveda Physiology) from Banaras Hindu University in 2001. Since 2004, he has been working at the Department of Kriya Sharir, Faculty of Ayurveda, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi as a faculty member. In 2009, he completed his doctoral work with a focus on identifying various issues, concerns, and challenges of Ayurveda Education in India and has continued this work since then.

Prof. Patwardhan has received the ‘Vaidya-Scientist Fellowship’ from TDU, Bengaluru, and is a recipient of the Dr C Dwarikanath Award from the Indian Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (India) for the year 2019. He has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committees of IPGT&RA (Jamnagar), CCRAS, and the School of Life Sciences, MAHE, Manipal. He was also involved in the first published N-of-1 trial in Ayurveda, a single-patient, quasi-randomized, controlled, open-label study evaluating a classical formulation in a patient with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

His areas of academic interest include Ayurveda biology, Ayurveda education, Drug safety, Research Methods, Academic writing, and Policies on Higher Education. He has also authored lessons and reflections published at Health, Illness and Healing (clinicaltheory.org), a collaborative work that reconstructs the theoretical foundations of Ayurveda through imagined dialogues, portraying Charaka and Sushruta teaching their students using the tools and reasoning available to them in their time. Each lesson is followed by a reflection section that juxtaposes these ideas against a modern context. Additionally, he has worked as the Principal Investigator and coordinator of the Ayurveda Network (ayurvedanetworkbhu.com), a project initiated under the Ministry of Education, later receiving support from the Ministry of Ayush.