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 Pankaj P Rao

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

Deputy Chairperson Editorial Board

Maj Gen Atul Seth, VSM

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

Treasurer

Brig CN Satish

Commandant, Artificial Limb Centre, Pune, India

Editor-in- Chief

Col Vivek Aggarwal

Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine,

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Executive Editor

Lt Col Shelka Dua

Professor, Department of Physiology,

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Technical Editor

Lt Col Anantpreet Kaur Bajaj, 

Assistant Professor, IH & BT 

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Associate Editors

 Col Puja Dudeja, VSM

Col Health, South Western Command, Jaipur, India

Col Arun Hegde

Medicine (Rheumatology), MH Belgaum, Karnataka, India

Col Vishal Sondhi 

Paediatrics, 92 Base Hospital, Srinagar, India

Col Alok Kumar

Anaesthesia, Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences, Pune, India

Col Vikas Ambiya 

Ophthalmology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Col AW Kashif

Lab Sciences, MH, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Col Bidhan Roy

Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 302 Field Hospital, Assam, India

Wg Cdr Shrirang Vasant Kulkarni

Surgery, 7 Air Force Hospital, Kanpur, India

Lt Col Rajkumar Maurya

Dental Surgery, 314 Field Hospital, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Dr Seema Patrikar

Biostatistics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, 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

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

Professor & Head, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology,

Paras Hospitals Gurugram, Gurgaon, India

Dr Alok Srivastava

Professor & Head, Centre for Stem Cell Research

Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Dr Balram Bhargava

Former Director General Indian Council of Medical Research

New Delhi, India

Dr Shyam Verma 

Vice President, International Society of Dermatology (ISD), 

Vadodara, India

Dr Surjit Singh

Dean, PGIMER

Chandigarh

Lt Gen MD Venkatesh, VSM (Retd)

Vice Chancellor, MAHE, Manipal

Karnataka, India

Dr Rakesh Chadda 

Head, Dept of Psychiatry

AIIMS,  New Delhi, 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

Former Director, AIIMS

New Delhi, India

Dr Peter John Victor

Former, Director

CMC Vellore, India

Dr SK Agarwal

Professor & Head, Department of Nephrology

AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Dr Soniya Nityanand

Professor & Head, Department of Clinical Immunology

SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India

Dr Subash Chandra Parija

Vice Chancellor, Sri Balaji Vidhyapeeth

Puducherry, India

Dr MC Misra

Professor General & Minimally Invasive Surgery, Director

Surgical Disciplines, MGUMST Jaipur, India

Dr Devi Prasad Shetty

Chairman Narayana Hrudayalaya 

Bangalore, India

Armed Forces Editorial Advisory Board

Surg RAdm Vivek Hande,VSM

Senior Consultant (Medicine)

Maj Gen PA Deshmukh

Senior Consultant (Surgery)

Brig Kunal Chatterjee

Professor & HoD, Department of Community Medicine

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig SK Pramanik

Professor & HoD, Department of Medicine

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Brig M Viswambaran 

Professor & HoD, Department of Dental Surgery

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India