Major General D Vivekanand takes charge as Dean and Deputy Commandant of AFMC Pune

Pune: Major General D Vivekanand has assumed the charge as the Dean and Deputy Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune on 26th January.In a distinguished career of more than three decades, he has been appointed to various important positions. 

Maj Gen D Vivekanand is an alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College from the 1984 batch. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in Dec 1988. He completed MD in Anesthesiology from AFMC in 1995 and DNB in Anesthesiology in 1996. 

The General Officer has an exemplary academic record and vast clinical, research, and administrative experience. In a distinguished career of more than three decades, he has held various challenging and critical appointments including that of an anesthesiologist across multiple hospitals of the Indian Army ranging from Field, Peripheral, Zonal and Command hospitals and that of commanding the United Nation's Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) hospital. The General Officer has had the distinction of serving in CI Ops conditions in Kashmir and during Op Vijay.

He has also been a Professor of Anesthesiology at AFMC, Pune, whereafter he moved on promotion as a Brigadier to command Military Hospital, Secunderabad. He was awarded M.Phil in Social Sciences on successful completion of the Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA) in 2020, from the prestigious Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He is a qualified American Heart Association (AHA) instructor in Basic and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (BLS & ACLS) and is also a qualified instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and has conducted numerous workshops.  

He was awarded the General Officer Commanding in Chief, Western Command commendation in 2012 for his meritorious services. Prior to the present appointment, he was tenting the vital and challenging position of Brigadier Medical (Personnel) in the office of the Director General Medical Services (Army).  

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