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{{Short description|Indian surgeon}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dr. Samiran Nundy
| honorific-suffix = [[Padma Shri]]
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| birth_place = India
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| occupation = President of AIIMS, Rishikesh &
Consultant, Sir GangaRam Hospital, New Delhi

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| known for = Gastroenterology<br />Social activism
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| children = [[Karuna Nundy]]
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] (1985)
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'''Samiran Nundy''' is an Indian gastrointestinal surgeon, medical academic, writer and the President of [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh|All India Institute of Medical Sciences]], Rishikesh.<ref name="Nundy1">{{cite web | url= https://aiimsrishikesh.edu.in/a1_1/?page_id=241 | title=Dr. Samiran Nundy | publisher=ND TV | date=22 January 2010 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> He is a former member of the faculty at the [[Cambridge University]], [[London University]] and [[Harvard University]], and is the founder editor of the ''[[National Medical Journal of India]]'' and ''Tropical Gastroenterology''.<ref name="Nundy1"/> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth-highest Indian civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1985.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015}}</ref>

==Biography==
Nundy did his undergraduate studies in medicine at [[Cambridge University]] and the [[Guy's Hospital, London]] after which he completed his residency at the [[Hammersmith Hospital]].<ref name="Advisory Board">{{cite web | url=http://www.medicounsel.com/advisoryboard.php | title=Advisory Board | publisher=Medicounsel | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015 | archive-date=2 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213245/http://www.medicounsel.com/advisoryboard.php }}</ref> This was followed by a series of surgical training programmes at Guy's Hospital, [[Addenbrooke's Hospital]], [[Hammersmith Hospital]] and [[Massachusetts General Hospital]], [[Boston]].<ref name="S Nundy">{{cite web | url=http://www.credihealth.com/doctor/141-s-nundy/overview | title=S Nundy | publisher=Credihealth | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015 | archive-date=23 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211054/http://www.credihealth.com/doctor/141-s-nundy/overview }}</ref>

During his stay abroad, he had teaching stints at Cambridge University, London University and Harvard University.<ref name="Nundy1"/> Returning to India in 1975, he joined the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]] as a member of the faculty and stayed there until his superannuation in 1996.<ref name="Advisory Board" /> During his tenure there, he helped found the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation at AIIMS, of which he was the founder professor.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/gi-surgery/gisurgery.htm | title=The Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation | publisher=AIIMS | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref>

In 1996, he joined [[Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (India)|Sir Ganga Ram Hospital]], Delhi where he is the Emeritus Consultant of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.credihealth.com/doctor/141-s-nundy/experience | title=S Nundy experience | publisher=Credihealth | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015 | archive-date=23 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211051/http://www.credihealth.com/doctor/141-s-nundy/experience }}</ref> He led the team which is credited with 241 liver sections during the period 1996-2005, the details of which were published in a medical paper, ''Two hundred and forty-one consecutive liver resections: an experience from India''.<ref>{{cite journal|author-link4=Subash Gupta|year=2007|title=Two hundred and forty-one consecutive liver resections: an experience from India|journal=HPB (Oxford)|volume=9|issue=1|pages=29–36|doi=10.1080/13651820600985259|pmc=2020779|pmid=18333110|author1=Sanjay Marwah|author2=Mohammed Mustafizur Rahman Khan|author3=Adarsh Chaudhary|author4=Subash Gupta|author5=Sanjay Singh Negi|author6=Arvinder Soin|author7=Samiran Nundy}}</ref>

Nundy is the founder editor of the ''[[National Medical Journal of India]]''<ref name="Nundy1"/> and ''Tropical Gastroenterology'',<ref name="S Nundy" /> and the incumbent editor-in-chief of ''Current Medicine Research and Practice''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-medicine-research-and-practice/editorial-board/samiran-nundy/ | title=Elsevier profile | publisher=Elsevier | work=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Patients1">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/Patients-have-become-consumers-and-they-are-the-losers-Dr-Samiran-Nundy/articleshow/37875974.cms | title=Patients have become consumers and they are the losers | publisher=Times of India | date=6 July 2014 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> He is the co-chairman of the department of academics at the [[Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (India)|Sir Ganga Ram Hospital]].<ref name="working">{{cite journal | title=My working day: Samiran Nundy | author=Manoj Ramachandran | journal=J R Soc Med |date=May 2009 | volume=102 | issue=5 | pages=208–209 | doi=10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k014 | pmid=19417055 | pmc=2677428}}</ref> He is also associated with the ''[[Indian Journal of Medical Ethics]]'' as its editor, and Edpulseline.com as a member of its advisory board.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He is a fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] and the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]].<ref name="S Nundy" /> His research findings have been documented by way of several articles and medical papers of which [[ResearchGate]] has listed 190,<ref name="ResearchGate profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samiran_Nundy | title=ResearchGate profile | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> while [[Google Scholar]] has listed 320.<ref name="Google Scholar listing">{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Aes13J0AAAAJ&hl=en&cstart=300&pagesize=20 | title=Google Scholar listing | publisher=Google Scholar | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref>

Nandy serves as a member of the advisory board of Medicounsel, a medical advisory organization composed of noted medical specialists, engaged in providing guidance to patients inflicted with rare and complicated diseases.<ref name="Advisory Board" /> He is also a part of the team of 290 specialists of DoctorNDTV. Com,<ref name="DoctorNDTV.Com">{{cite web | url=http://doctor.ndtv.com/ | title=DoctorNDTV.Com | publisher=NDTV | date=2015 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> an online consultation forum, functioning under the aegis of the [[NDTV]] network. The website is reported to have a monthly average of 400 million views and, 3600 queries.<ref name="Advisory Board" /> His contributions are also reported behind the ''Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994'', which made human organ trading illegal and recognised [[brain death]] as a form of death in India.<ref name="working"/>

The [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1985.<ref name="Padma Awards" />

==Social activism==
In May 2014, Nundy wrote an editorial in the ''Journal of Current Medicine Research and Practice'' in which he exposed the corrupt practices in the Indian health sector.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/first-give-the-patient-right-to-know/3/ | title=First, give the patient right to know | publisher=The Indian Express | date=30 June 2014 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref> He mentioned the practice of unnecessary investigations and referrals made by the doctors and their practice of accepting commissions for the referrals.<ref name="Patients1"/> He suggested computerisation of medical records and procedure audits to combat this trend.<ref name="Patients1"/> His editorial was inspired by the article, "Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India", published in the ''[[British Medical Journal]]'' and written by David Berger, an Australian physician who had worked as a volunteer at a charitable hospital in India.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3169/rr/759480 | title=Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India | author=David W Berger | journal=BMJ |date=May 2014 | volume=348 | doi=10.1136/bmj.g3169 | pmid=24812115 | article-number=g3169| doi-access=free }}</ref> The article and the subsequent editorial made news among the medical fraternity and have drawn concurring responses from the government.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/bmj-article-on-graft-in-indian-healthcare-creates-stir/ | title=BMJ article on graft in Indian healthcare creates stir | publisher=The Indian Express | date=26 June 2014 | access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref>

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[[Category:St. Paul's School, Darjeeling alumni]]

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