Samiran Nundy

Dr Samiran Nundy studied in Cambridge and Guy's Hospital London and then trained in Medicine and later in Surgery at Guy's, Addenbrooke’s Cambridge, the Hammersmith and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, London and Harvard and returned to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1975 where he eventually became the Founder Professor of the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery. He left AIIMS in 1996 to start the Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation Department in the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi.

His clinical and research interests are in the surgical management of diseases of the liver, bowel and pancreas, the quality of Indian medical research and publications, electronic medical records and disseminating health information to lay people via books, television and the web. He helped in lobbying for and drafting the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1995. He has edited The National Medical Journal of India, Tropical Gastroenterology, the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, DoctorNDTV.com and the web application Raxapedia.Health. He is a Trustee of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Health Adviser to the Governor of Meghalaya and President of AIIMS, Rishikesh and ADAPT, formerly the Spastics Society of India.