Editorial Board

The Medical Journal Armed Forces India is an official publication of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

The Editorial Board chaired by the Director & Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune manages the journal. The current members of the editorial board are as under :

Chairperson Editorial Board

Lt Gen Narendra Kotwal, AVSM, SM, VSM

Director & Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Deputy Chairperson Editorial Board

Maj Gen D Vivekanand, SM

Dean & Deputy Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Treasurer

Brig Ajay Deep Sud

Commandant,

Artificial Limb Centre, Pune, India

Editor-in- Chief

Col Biju Vasudevan

Professor & Head, Department of Dermatology,

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Executive Editor

Col AW Kashif

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Technical Editor

Lt Col Vishwavijet Mopagar

MD (Community Medicine)

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Associate Editors

Air Cmde Prateek Kinra

Lab Sciences, Office of DGMS (Air), New Delhi, India

Surg Cmde Sushil Chawla,

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

INHS Kalyani, Visakhapatnam, India

Col Arun Hegde

Medicine (Rheumatology)

Army Hosp (R&R), Delhi

Col Amit Agrawal

Surgery (Urosurgery)

Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandigarh,India

Col Puja Dudeja, VSM

Community Medicine

Office of DGMS (Army), New Delhi, India

Col Subhash Chandra Shaw

Paediatrics

Army Hospital Research & Referral, New Delhi, India

Col DK Gupta

ENT

INHS Asvini, Colaba, Mumbai

Lt Col Kadu Abhijeet Ashok

Dental Surgery

Military Dental Center Khadakwasla, Pune, India

Dr Seema Patrikar

Biostatistics

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Dr Ankur Khandelwal

Anaesthesia

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati, India

International Editorial Advisory Board

Dr Dinesh Kumar Bhugra, MRCP, FRCP, PhD

Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity, PO25, Health Services and Population Research Department,

Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF

Dr Namasivayam Ambalavanan

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology,

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA

Dr Donald Pathman, MD MPH

Professor & Research Director, Department of Family Medicine

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Dr G Gopal Rao, OBE

HOD & Consultant Microbiologist/Lead Clinician, Infection Control,

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust,Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ

Dr Ruby Pawankar

Dept of Paediatrics,

Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Dr Subhas Banerjee

Director of Endoscopy, Associate Professor of Medicine,

Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA

Dr Pradeep Kumar

Consultant Surgery & Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer,

University hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Trust, UK

National Editorial Advisory Board

Dr Ajay S Chandanwale

Joint Director,

Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Mumbai, India

Dr Alka Kriplani

Ex-Professor & Head, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology,

All India Insititute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Dr Alok Srivastava

Professor & Head, Centre for Stem Cell Research

Christan Medical College, Vellore, India

Dr Balram Bhargava

Sectetary DHR and Director General Indian Council of Medical Reasearch

New Delhi, India

Dr Davinder Mohan Thapa

Professor, Dermatology & STD

JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Dr Jagat Ram

Director, PGIMER

Chandigarh

Lt Gen MD Venkatesh, VSM (Retd)

Vice Chancellor, Sikkim Manipal University

East Sikkim, India

Dr Neelam Marwaha

Professor & Head, Dept of Transfusion Medicine

PGIMER,Chandigarh, India

AVM Rajvir Bhalwar (Retd)

Dean, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences

Loni, Ahmednagar, India

Dr Raju Sharma

Professor, Department of Radiology, AIIMS

New Delhi, India

Dr Randeep Guleria

Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, India

Dr Shashi Bala Singh

Director

NIPER, Hyderabad, India

Dr SK Agarwal

Professor & Head, Department of Nephrology

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Dr Soniya Nityanand

Professor & Head, Department of Clinical Immunology

SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India

Dr Subash Chandra Parija

Director, JIPMER

Dhanvantri Nagar, Gorimedu,Puducherry

Dr Venkatramani Sitaram

Professor & Head, Dept of Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery

Christan Medical College, Vellore, India

Dr Yash Lokhandwala

Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Arrhythmia Associates

Mumbai, India

Armed Forces Editorial Advisory Board

Maj Gen Sandeep Thareja, SM VSM*

Senior Consultant (Medicine)

Maj Gen PP Rao 

Senior Consultant (Surgery)

Brig Alok Bhalla, VSM

Professor & HoD, Department of Surgery

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig VK Bhatti

Professor & HoD, Department of Community Medicine

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig Indranil  Dev Roy

Prof & HoD, Department of Dental Surgery

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig Muthukrishnan Jayaraman, SM, VSM

Professor & HoD, Department of Medicine

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig Poonam Raj

Prof & HoD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology