Randeep Guleria

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and former director of AIIMS New Delhi, credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He is also the former President of AIIMS Bilaspur. In 2015, he was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award, by Government of India.

Guleria is co-author of a book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 pandemic. Randeep Guleria is son of Padma Shri Jagdev Singh Guleria, a cardiologist, and is elder brother to Padma Shri Sandeep Guleria, a surgeon.

Biography

An alumnus of the class of 1975 of St. Columba's School, Delhi, Dr Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, affiliated with Himachal Pradesh University from where he received undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. on immunization and influenza vaccination. He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and Chest India.