Professional Activities

Professional Experience & Peer Recognition

Positions held	Duration	Name of the Institution
Professor	Sept. 2005-Till date	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, N.D
Additional Professor	1.7.2003- Sept.2005	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, N.D
Associate Professor	1.12.98  - 1.7.2003	All India Institute of Medical Sciences. N.D
Assistant Professor	July 2003- 1.12.98	All India Institute of Medical Sciences. N.D
President	2011-2013	National College of Chest Physicians
Vice President	2007-2009	National College of Chest Physicians
Chairman, Credential Committee	2011-2013	Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Eminence of Nominee among Peers in profession as a person of  Integrity of distribution at National/International level

1. Member of Council of Regents and Governors, American College of Chest   Physicians
2. Chairman, Credential Committee, Indian of Critical Care Committee, 2009-13
3. Member: Executive Council: Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (2008-10)

Member Editorial Board:

1. Indian Journal of Chest Diseases  and Allied Sciences Indian
2. Journal of Critical Care Medicine
3. Annals of National Academy of Medicine (India)
4. Current Medical Trends (An Official Journal of Indian Medicos Society)

Special Service to Profession/Community

1. Organizing Secretary ; Medicine Update: For three years (1996, 1997, 1998), by  Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
2. Organizing Secretary of  Update on Recent advances in Respiratory Diseases and work shop on thoracoscopic surgery’ held on 14-15 April 2001
3. At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New-Delhi
4. Organizing Co-chairman, AIIMS Pulmocrit Conference Dec 15-16 2012 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New-Delhi-110029
5. Organizing Co-chairman, AIIMS Pulmocrit Conference Feb 2014  at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New-Delhi 110029
6. President Citation for dedicated and outstanding contribution to the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine as Chairman of Credential Committee
7. Nominated by the Vice-Chancellor of Pt. B.D. Sharma, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak as External Expert for Board of Medical Super-Specialties.

Awards and Grants

1. A study of Air pollution in the vicinity of Indra Prastha Thermal Power station and its health effects: A controlled study: Funded by WHO
2. Collection of specimens for detection of molecular techniques for diagnosis of drug resistant tuberculosis: Funded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
3. Assessment of Human Health Risk Associated with Environmental exposure under three parameters: Air pollution, water pollution and Solid and Hazardous waste and to evaluate economic cost of health and economic risk (Funded by WHO)
4. Time Series Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Delhi (Funded by Health Effect Institute USA)
5. Effect of outdoor and indoor air pollution in children’s health in Delhi: a controlled study” (funded by Min of Environment and Forest)
6. A multicenter study of clinical and microbiological profile of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in indian patients (Funded by M/S/Pfizer)
7. Project entitled “Study of immunological impact of Type-I interferon(s) on immune response in Tuberculosis patients” under Dr. H.K. Prasad, AIIMS, New Delhi (Co-investigator): Funded by ICMR, duration 2yrs.
8. Received NAPCON Best paper award in Respiratory and Critical Care during NAPCON 2002 at Jaipur
9. Dr.  S.K. Goyal  lifetime Achievement Award” by The Association of Physicians of India (Rajasthan Chapter), at Jaipur

Memberships of Technical Expert groups and Consultancy:

1. Member of Expert-cum-Monitoring Group of a research project: On Efficacy of Mycobactirium W.  vaccine in treatment of tuberculosis.
2. Member of Data and Safety Monitoring Board titled “Zinc as an immunomodulator in the treatment of possible serious bacterial infections in infants more than 7 days and upto 2 months of age”.
3. Served as Expert for selection of candidates for `Common wealth Fellowship (UK), 2005.  
4. Served as member of selection committee for Norwegian government scholarship.
5. Served as experts for selection of specialists in Respiratory Medicine (Government of UP).
6. Served as Examiner for DNB Respiratory Medicine for four times.
7. Served as Chairman of Project Review committee for ICMR (March 2006).
8. COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) : Member of committee for framing Guidelines for diagnosis in management of COPD (By WHO.
9. Asthma:  Member of committee for framing Guidelines for diagnosis in management of Asthma (2005; By WHO.)
10. Non-invasive ventilation: Member of committee for framing Guidelines for use of Non-   invasive ventilation (Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine).
11. Member: Executive Council. North Hill University, Shillong (Meghalalaya)