Dr Randeep Guleria appointed new director of AIIMS

He will be taking over from Dr MC Mishra.

Updated on: Mar 24, 2017, 22:09:01 IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Sanchita Sharma

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Dr Randeep Guleria, the head of the department of pulmonary medicine, has been appointed the director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He will be taking over from Dr MC Mishra, who headed the institute for three years.

AIIMS is ranked India’s best medical college. (HT File Photo)

Dr Guleria was among the three persons who made the final shortlist sent to the Prime Minister’s Office. The others shortlisted were head of department of paediatrics Dr V K Paul and Cardiology Professor Dr Balram Bhargava.

Fifty-three doctors, including 35 from outside AIIMS, had applied for the post of the director of AIIMS, which is India’s best medical college, research and hospital established by an Act of Parliament in 1956.

The hospital treats more around 12,000 people in its out-patient department every day.

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Sanchita Sharma
Sanchita is the health & science editor of the Hindustan Times. She has been reporting and writing on public health policy, health and nutrition for close to two decades. She is an International Reporting Project fellow from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and was part of the expert group that drafted the Press Council of India’s media guidelines on health reporting, including reporting on people living with HIV.Read More

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