Veena Kalra AIMS

Sir I want to know that who is veena kalra in the aims and what is her designation so can you please tell me the same

[Shaleen]

Hey The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences are a group of autonomous public medical colleges of higher education.

These institutes have been declared by Act of Parliament as institutions of national importance


Well Dr. Veena Kalra is the Prof. & Head of the AIIMS Delhi

Education:

Delhi University (India) MBBS (1968); AIIMS (New Delhi) MD (1972).

Awards:

Distinguished academic career.

Topped in Academics since 1963.

WHO Research Training Grant Awardee (worked at MRC).

Cambridge University, U.K. and WHO Laboratory, Geneva (1981); ST Achar Endowment Award for Best Clinical Research of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (1983); Kanishka Award for Medical Education.

Publications:

Over 153 original research publications in areas of child neurology, hepatic and neuro-genetic disorders of children.

Guided 46 MD/Ph.D thesis; 6 DM thesis. Authored over 45 chapters for Indian and Foreign medical text books.

Authored text books entitled, `Practical Pediatric Neurology’ in 2002; “Development through activity” in 2004, several monographs and patient friendly literature

National and International Membership of Scientific Bodies

Fellow, Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences
Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
Founder Member, IAP’s Child Neurology Chapter
Executive Board Member of International Child Neurology Association
Chairperson, International Child Neurology Education Committee of ICNA
Member, Membership Advisory Committees – ICNA
President, Asian & Oceanian Child Neurology Association
Active Member, Child Neurology Society, USA
Member, Oxford & Cambridge Society of India
Member, Indian Academy of Pediatrics
President and founding member, Association of Child Neurology
Indian Epilepsy Society
Founder Member, Indian Society for Inborn Errors of Metabolism