Dr. Randeep Guleria

Brief Profile:

Dr. Randeep Guleria is Chairman of the Institute of Internal Medicine and Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Principal of Medanta Medical College. Before that he headed AIIMS New Delhi as Director for about 5 years. He is a former professor and head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), New Delhi. He received the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2015 in the field of medicine. He received the prestigious Dr. B... He was awarded the C. Roy National Award for Distinguished Physician in 2014 and the Lung India Award for the best original article in Lung India by the Indian Thoracic Society in 2014. He was awarded Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa by IIT, Kharagpur and Amity University. He has received many other prestigious awards like Swastha Bharat Samman for Medicine from LIC and Zee TV and Himachal Gaurav Puraskar and also the 22nd Lal Bahadur Shastri National Excellence Award in 2021. He is also a consultant. and consultant to various international and national organizations, including the WHO (Geneva) and the IAEA (Vienna).

Education:

• MD (Medicine), PGIME, Chandigarh
• DM in Pulmonary Medicine, PGIME, Chandigarh

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Awarded Padma Shri for year 2015
• He has been awarded the prestigious Dr. B C Roy National Awards for the year 2014
• "Prez honours AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria with Dr. B C Roy award". Retrieved 1 April 2017.
• Lung India by the Indian Chest Society in 2014,
• Swasth Bharat Award” in 2010
• Ramakrishnan Oration award for his outstanding contribution in Respiratory Diseases in 2011 by the Academy of Respiratory Medicine
• Dr P S Shankar Oration in 2011
• Dr. Reddy’s Chest Oration by the National College of Chest Physicians (India) 2013
• Association of Physicians EMerck award for research in Chest Diseases in 2008
• Raj Nanda and Royal College of Physicians Joint fellowship in Pulmonary Diseases in 2007-08

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

• He is a member of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) working group for Influenza vaccination and immunization
• Life Member of the Association of Physicians of India, the National College of Chest Physicians of India and the Indian Chest Society
• He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India
• Journal of American Medical Association (India) and Chest India.
• He has been the personal physician to Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India, from 1998 till date.