Dr Prashant P Joshi appointed as new Executive Director of AIIMS Nagpur

Hailing from Nagpur, Dr Joshi completed his MBBS, MD (General Medicine) from Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and his MSc (Clinical Epidemiology, UNC, Australia) in 1995. 

He was nominated as a consultant by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India for developing the Program Implementation Plan for the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program. He also served as the temporary advisor to WHO on Non-communicable Disease surveillance and Trypanosomiasis. 

He was given the responsibility of Nodal Clinical Expert in the management of COVID-19 for Maharashtra by the Government of India and was also a Member of the COVID Task Force.

Dr Joshi is the Recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Training in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He did 172 Research Publications in top, prestigious, high-impact factor Journals like JAMA, NEJM, BMJ, Lancet, WHO bulletin, JACC, Am J of Trop Med, etc

He had worked as the president of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2006-07) and the president of the Diabetic Association of India, Nagpur Branch, 2017-18.

He won the best paper award in APICON 2002, 2000,1996 and his research Papers were presented in numerous International Conferences. 

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