Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 25: Dr Shakti Kumar Gupta, Medical Superintendent, AIIMS (Dr RP Centre), New Delhi, has been selected for prestigious Times Healthcare Achievers award.
Selection of Dr Shakti Gupta for Times Health Care Achievers Delhi 2018, has been made in recognition of his extra-ordinary services in the healthcare.
Dr Shakti Gupta, who hails from a border village Ari (LoC), District Poonch, J&K State, is an alumnus of Government Medical College, Jammu from where he did his MBBS and AIIMS New Delhi from where he obtained his Masters in Hospital Administration. Commencing his Medical career at grass-root levels as an Assistant Surgeon in J&K Health Services, he provided curative, preventive, promotive and rehabilitative services at dispensary and primary healthcare centres. He actively facilitated implementation of national health programmes and submitted project reports for district and general hospitals. His quest for achieving professional excellence propelled him to relocate to AIIMS where he joined as a faculty.
He headed the Department of Hospital Administration at AIIMS and mentored more than 45 Postgraduate & PhD students, conducted 112 research studies, published more than 71 research papers published in several national and international journals of repute. He has also been the Principal Investigator of WHO projects on Public Hospital Governance: AIIMS-A case study; National Consultation on PPP; and Electronic Medical Records. The Department of Hospital Administration, under his leadership, had the honour of being the first Department of AIIMS to receive ISO Certification.
Dr Gupta introduced Integrated Learning Module as a scientific pattern of teaching for a spiring hospital administrators. The module has been incorporated in other medical colleges conducting PG courses in Hospital Administration. He standardized Curriculum for PG courses in Hospital Administration in association with MCI and WHO. He has authored nine books on various aspects of Hospital administration viz Planning and Designing, Medical Store Management, Best Procurement Practices, Dis-aster Manag-ement, Infection Control & Disease Outbreak Mana-gement.
He is Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, International Medical Sciences Academy, Acad-emy of Hospital Administration, and Institute of Hospital Engin-eering. He has been the recipient of WHO Fellow-ship to study accident and emergency services at USA, and Manag-ement Develo-pment Progra-mme of National University, Sing-apore.
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