Dipika Deka

Dipika Deka is an Indian physician, professor, and gynecologist. She is currently a Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She served at AIIMS Delhi from 1983 to 2018 and rejoined the institute on 1st February, 2021. She was appointed as the first Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani, West Bengal, She is the wife of Dr. Ramesh Chandra Deka, a renowned ENT specialist and the first Assamese Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Education Dipika Deka graduated from Guwahati Medical College in 1977. Deka received her postgraduate degree from the same college and obtained her MD in 1982 in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Career Dipika Deka joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi in 1983 as a Senior Resident Physician in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

On 11 April 2019, she was appointed by the Governor of Assam as the Vice-Chancellor of the Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences, Guwahati. Deka is the first Assamese woman to serve as a Vice-Chancellor and also the first woman to hold the position at any university in Assam.