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olding the high office of Director at All their role in pulmonary disorders, reflects his avant-
India Institute of Medical Sciences, garde free-thinking approach.
HNew Delhi, Prof. (Dr.) Randeep Guleria With a large body of published works and
is a celebrated pulmonologist, teacher, researcher, proficiency in diverse clinical fields, he has been
and policy maker. As the member of the National a major motivating force in the construct of new
Task Force on Covid-19, he played a key role both in paradigms in public health policy, higher medical
policy making and as a public educator. He assisted education and spearheading a digital transformation
the government in taking key decisions during the towards causing improvement in patient care services.
pandemic. A major thinking force associated with a number
An eminent clinician and academic, his greatest of international institutions including the Centre for
contribution has been to pulmonology. His profound Disease Control, USA; World Health Organization,
work on the pathophysiology and management Geneva; and International Atomic Energy Agency,
Prof. (Dr.) Randeep Guleria of crippling pulmonary diseases such as bronchial Austria, he has inspired critical improvements in
Governing Body Member asthma, chronic airway disease, sleep apnoea, and several public health strategies.
D.M. (Pulmonary Medicine), pulmonary malignancies has given a new lease Widely acclaimed in the international scientific
D.Sc. (honoris causa) of life to thousands of patients. A member of the medical community, Dr. Randeep Guleria is a
World Health Organization Scientific Advisory recipient of the Dr. BC Roy National Award in 2014,
Group of Experts (SAGE), his research in the realm the civil honour Padma Shri in 2015, and the TP
of genetic medicine, stem cell therapy and holistic Jhunjhunwala Foundation National Excellence Award
methodologies such as yoga and ayurveda in defining in 2018.
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