Lt Gen (Dr) MD Venkatesh new Pro-Chancellor of Sikkim Manipal University

Gangtok: Sikkim Manipal University has a new Pro-Chancellor in (rtd) Lieutenant General (Dr) MD Venkatesh.
He has taken over from Rajen Padukone. Dr Venkatesh is also Vice-Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (2017-20). He was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in 1979, followed by meritorious service of almost four decades.
He excelled at the MS (ENT) course from Mumbai University, in 1986. He is acclaimed as an outstanding ENT Surgeon, who has held many prestigious academic, instructional, command, managerial, staff and administrative appointments in the armed forces medical services.
He has optimally leveraged his training in cochlear implantation and neuro-otology in India and abroad, for the benefit of his patients, colleagues & students.
He has made a commendable impact in the field of medical education, having trained many generations of undergraduate and postgraduate students at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Pune; and other renowned tertiary care PG teaching hospitals. He has been welcomed at the Sikkim Manipal University, here.