Sudarshan K. Aggarwal

Sudarshan Kumar Aggarwal (born 1935) is an Indian medical doctor and radiologist. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine.

Biography Sudarshan K. Aggarwal was born in 1935, as the youngest son of Dr. Diwan Chand Aggarwal, one of the pioneers of radiology in India, and a member of the British Institute of Radiology, at Lahore in the British India. He graduated in medicine from Amristsar Medical College, Punjab University in 1957 and secured the post graduate degree of DMRD from London in 1961. He also obtained further degrees such as FRCR in 1986 from England, FACR in 1996 from the US and FRSM from the UK, the same year. and took over the management of the centre in 1989, on the death of his brother.

He has also published over 50 articles in Indian and international journals.

Positions Aggarwal is the founding editor of the Asian Oceanian Journal of Radiology. and is a member of the editorial boards of two known journals, Abdominal Imaging and the Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

Sudarshan Aggarwal was the President of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association in 1989. and the organizing secretary of the 6th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (1991) and the 20th International Congress of Radiology.

Some of the important positions held by Dr. Aggarwal are: Consultant - US Embassy Nursing Home, New Delhi Fellow of the Indian College of Radiology Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London Honorary member - Radiological Society of North America Honorary member - Radiological Society of Italy Honorary member - Radiological Society of Sweden Honorary member - International Relations Committee - European Society of Radiology Honorary member - European Congress of Radiology Honorary member - European Association of Radiology