21 Notable alumni of
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi is 1690th in the world, 383rd in Asia, and 41st in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Deepak Chopra
- Occupations
- documentary participantinternistAyurvedacharyawellness gurumotivational speaker
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Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author, new age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a holistic approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other new-age therapies.
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Nigel Ng
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- screenwritervloggercomedianvideo editortelevision producer
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Nigel Ng is a Malaysian comedian and YouTuber based in the United States. He is best known for co-creating (alongside Evelyn Mok) and portraying Uncle Roger, a fictionalized alter ego of himself, representing a stereotypical middle-aged Chinese uncle with an exaggerated Cantonese accent who is often seen critiquing westerners' attempts at cooking Asian food.
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Ramakanta Panda
- Occupations
- cardiologist
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Ramakanta Panda, is an Indian cardiac surgeon and the chief consultant for cardiovascular thoracic surgery and the Chairman of the Asian Heart Institute, a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. In 2002, he set up the Asian Heart Institute in India. Panda has performed about 30,000 successful cardiac surgeries, including more than 2,000 redo surgeries and 6,000+ high-risk surgeries He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 by the Government of India. With a 99.8% success rate in bypass surgery, he is widely considered the world’s safest cardiac surgeon. Currently, he is the Chairman of Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.
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Sanduk Ruit
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- surgeonophthalmologist
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Sanduk Ruit is an ophthalmologist from Nepal who was involved in restoring the sight of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery.
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Soumya Swaminathan
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- physicianpediatricianscientist
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Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. Swaminathan served as Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (2015–2017), where she prioritized evidence-based health policy, research capacity building in medical schools, and strengthening south-south partnerships in health sciences. From October 2017 to March 2019, she was the deputy director general of programmes (DDP) at the World Health Organization. Subsequently till 2022, she served as the chief scientist at the World Health Organization under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Sanjiv Chopra
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- academic
- Biography
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Sanjiv Chopra is an American physician, Academic, and medical educator. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Marshall Wolf Distinguished Clinician Educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He previously served as Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School for twelve years.
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Tirath Das Dogra
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- authorpathologist
- Biography
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Tirath Das Dogra is an Indian forensic pathologist. He was the pro-chancellor and vice-chancellor of SGT University, Budhera Gurgaon Haryana (2013–2017).
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Basant Kumar Misra
- Enrolled in All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
- In 1983 graduated with Master of Surgery in neurosurgery
- Occupations
- neurosurgeonresearcherneuroscientistsurgeonphysician
- Biography
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Dr. Basant Kumar Misra is a neurosurgeon specialising in treating brain, spine, cerebrovascular and peripheral nervous system disorders, injuries, pathologies and malformations. Presently, he is the Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, and the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons, and the Chairman of WFNS Foundation.
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Panangipalli Venugopal
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- cardiac surgeoncardiologist
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Panangipalli Venugopal was an Indian cardiovascular surgeon and hospital administrator from Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India who is widely regarded as a pioneer in cardiac surgery. The Government of India honored him, in 1998, with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, for his services to the field of Medicine.
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Arvind Kumar
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- surgeon
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Arvind Kumar is an Indian thoracic surgeon. He is the chairman of the Institute of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Surgery, and Lung Transplantation at Medanta Hospital, in Gurugram, Haryana.
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Anil Aggrawal
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- journalistauthor
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Anil Aggrawal is a professor of forensic medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India. He is known chiefly for his online journal, Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. He joined Maulana Azad Medical College as a faculty member in 1985. Aggrawal proposed a new classification of necrophilia, and is considered the leading authority on necrophilia.
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Subash Gupta
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Subhash Gupta is an Indian hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon and the chairman of the Max Center of Liver and Biliary Science at Max Healthcare, Saket.
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Anoop Misra
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India - Occupations
- writerresearcher
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Anoop Misra is an Indian endocrinologist and a former honorary physician to the Prime Minister of India. He serves the chairman of the Fortis Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol and heads the National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (NDOC). A former Fellow of the World Health Organization at the Royal Free Hospital in the United Kingdom, Misra has made significant contributions to the study of diabetes and obesity in the Indian population. He is a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, India's highest medical honor, and was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2007 for his contributions to medicine.
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Vinay Kumar
- Occupations
- pathologist
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Vinay Kumar is the Lowell T. Coggeshall Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he was also the Chairman (2000-2016) of the Department of Pathology. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award by National Board of Examinations.
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Harsh Kumar
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- ophthalmologist
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Harsh Kumar is an Indian ophthalmologist, who is reported to have described nine laser surgical procedures for glaucoma and anterior segment of which one procedure is cited by Shields Text Book of Glaucoma, a known reference book on glaucoma management. He is the director of Glaucoma Services at Centre for Sight, New Delhi and also serves at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
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Yarlagadda Nayudamma
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- surgeon
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Yarlagadda Nayudamma is a consultant paediatric surgeon from Guntur, India. Previously, he operated at the Guntur General Hospital where he was the head of the paediatric surgery department.
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AJ Kanwar
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- dermatologist
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Dr AJ Kanwar is an Indian Dermatologist. He has been Senior Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprology, PGI Chandigarh and currently practices in his hometown, New Delhi, India. Dr AJ Kanwar is the son of Late Shri Inder Singh and Smt Shanti Devi and was born on 29 June 1948. He attended school in New Delhi and graduated from the prestigious AIIMS, New Delhi in MBBS in 1969. He continued in AIIMS, New Delhi to obtain his post graduate degree (M.D.) in Dermatology and Venereology in 1975. After his senior residency in AIIMS, Dr Kanwar went on a foreign assignment in Benghazi, Libya. He also served a year in St John's Institute of Dermatology, London during a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship. He received a special training in Pediatric Dermatology during this year. To his credit are also time in National Institute of Health, Washington USA in 2006 for a Fellowship in AIDS, and a month in Kurume, Japan in 2010 for special training in Pemphigus. Dr Kanwar's foreign assignment in Libya, ended in 1987 when he returned to join PGI Chandigarh.
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Narinder Kumar Mehra
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- immunologist
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Narinder Kumar Mehra is an Indian immunologist, head of the department of transplant immunology and immunogenetics of the SRL Limited, Gurgaon. He is a former dean of research and holds the ICMR Dr. C.G. Pandit National Chair at AIIMS. An elected fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy, The World Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India, Mehra is known for his research on histocompatibility and immunogenetics. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1992. He received the Chevalier of the National Order of Merit from François Mitterrand in 2003.
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Sujata Sharma
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- researcherbiophysicistwriter
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Sujata Sharma is an Indian structural biologist, biophysicist, writer and a professor at the Department of Biophysics of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. She is known for her studies in the fields of protein structure, drug design and drug resistance of bacteria. Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 167 of them. She is also the author of the books, "Warriors in White", an autobiographical account of some COVID-19 Warriors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and other leading hospitals of India, including Prof Randeep Guleria, using a combination of modern medicine, astronomy and Vedic astrology, "The Secret of the Red Crystals", an autobiographical account of her days in AIIMS Delhi. and "A Dragonfly's purpose", which is an autobiographical account of her recovery from an autoimmune disease, Guillain Barre Syndrome. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2011. She is also a recipient of the Woman Scientist Award of the Biotech Research Society of India and the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award of the Department of Biotechnology which she received in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2020, she was awarded the Kalpana Chawla Excellence award, for her contributions in science. This award is instituted in the memory of the first Indian woman astronaut, Kalpana Chawla to go on space missions.
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Madan M. Rehani
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- scientistradiologist
- Biography
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Madan M. Rehani is an Indian-born American medical physicist.
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Roya Rozati
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- gynecologist
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Roya Rozati is an India-based gynecologist and infertility specialist. She is also the Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences and formerly served as the Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Owaisi Hospital & Research Centre of the Deccan College of Medical Sciences. In addition, Rozati is also the founder of the Maternal Health & Research Trust, a specialized research and infertility treatment center in Hyderabad focusing on infertility issues. She is currently the National Advisor to Indian Fertility Society from Telangana State and A.R.T. Chief Specialist at MHRT Hospital and Research Center.
