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Dr Randeep Guleria

Dr Randeep Guleria

Dr. Randeep Guleria is the president of AIIMS-Bilaspur, H.P., he is also chairman of the Institute of Internal Medicine & Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director Medical Education at Medanta. Prior to this, he was the ex-director of AIIMS, New Delhi, and a former Professor and Head of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Disorders at the AIIMS, New Delhi.  Dr. Guleria is the first Indian to get a Doctorate of Medicine (DM) in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
He has been Personal Physician to the Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1998 to 2004 and has since continued to be his Personal Physician. He has been asked by the Government of India to see various national and international dignitaries including Mr. Koirala, the then Prime Minister of Nepal. He has done pioneering work on respiratory muscle functions, lung cancer, asthma and COPD and has more than 400 publications in International and National journals and 49 chapters in various National and International books. He has delivered more than 300 lectures in International and National conferences. He has been invited by the American College of Chest Physicians as a faculty to their Annual International Conference in Chicago 2014. He has been invited by the National Associations in Sri Lanka and Nepal to deliver talks in their conferences. He is a member of many key committees in the Government of India including the Joint Monitoring Committee to monitor outbreaks of new diseases including Pandemics, bird flu, Ebola etc. to formulate National policy to control antibiotic resistance in India, member of Program Advisory Committee on Health Science of the Department of Science and Technology, member Project Review Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research, member of the project advisory committee of the National Institute of Virology and a member of the Project Advisory Committee on Nutritional Profile of Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya of the ICMR. He has been an advisor to several organizations like UPSC and a member of the Selection Committee for the International Commonwealth fellowship. He is a fellow and member of several National and International bodies including National Academy of Medical Sciences, International Medical Science Academy, Indian Association of Sarcoidosis and other Granulomatous Disorders, Association of Physicians of India, National College of Chest Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and AIDS Society of India. Dr. Guleria is on the editorial board of a number of journals including the Indian Journal of Chest Disease, Lung India, Journal of American Medical Association (India), Chest (India), etc. Dr. Guleria has been an external examiner to various universities including Delhi University, PGI, Chandigarh, VP Chest Institute, KGMC, Lucknow, BHU Varanasi, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Sher-e Kashmir Institute, Srinagar and Universities in Nepal.
He had many other prestigious awards, like the Swastha Bharat Samman for Medicine from LIC and Zee TV, the Himachal Gaurav Puraskar, and the 22nd Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in 2021. He is also an advisor and consultant to various international and national bodies, including the WHO (Geneva) and the IAEA (Vienna).
He was the recipient of the prestigious "Padma Shri" in 2015 in the field of medicine.  He has been awarded the prestigious Dr. B. C. Roy National Award for Eminent Medical Person for the year 2014 and the "Lung India Award" for the best original article in Lung India by the Indian Chest Society in 2014. He has been awarded Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa by IIT, Kharagpur, and Amity University.

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