Prof Soniya Nityanand takes charge as vice-chancellor of KGMU Lucknow

Lucknow: Prof Soniya Nityanand has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of the state-run King George's Medical University (KGMU) Lucknow. She will be serving for a term of three years. 

She is the second woman vice-chancellor who has been employed in the post after a gap of 12 years. Prof Nityanand is currently serving as the director of the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences. She has a glorious career and she also served as the Head of the department of hematology, at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences before joining Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences. 

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Prof RK Dhiman, director PGI, has been serving the additional duty in KGMU between July and August 2020. The term of present KGMU V-C Lt Gen (Dr) Bipin Puri ends on August 9. Prof Saroj Chooramani Gopal held the post of VC between March 2008 and February 2011.

As per a recent media report by Hindustan Times, KGMU Teachers’ Association has welcomed the new vice-chancellor. “It’s a Ghar Wapasi for Prof Soniya Nityanand who has done her MBBS and MD from KGMU. We extend her all support and hope the campus will develop under her leadership,” said Prof KK Singh, president of the association.