Jai Pal Singh Explained

Jai Pal Singh
Office:Director, Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Rohtak, Haryana and Principal Medical College, Haryana. India.
Term Start:1989
Term End:1992
Office2:Medical Superintendent, Dr. RML Hospital, (formerly The Willingdon Hospital), Delhi, India.
Term Start2:1986
Term End2:1989
Office3:Professor and Head of Department of Surgery at University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India.
Term Start3:1980
Term End3:1986
Birth Date:13 May 1930
Birth Place:Mhow, Meerut (UP)
Death Place:Delhi, India
Alma Mater:Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra
Profession:Doctor
Professor

Jai Pal Singh (13 May 1930 – 24 September 1997) was an Indian physician and educator. Singh obtained his bachelor’s medical degree in 1962 Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, India - the same institute from where his father (Yogendra Singh, a doctor with the British Army) graduated a generation ago. After completing his post-graduate qualifications in Surgery in 1955, he worked for over 40 years in Delhi and its neighbouring regions.

His last official position was as Director of what was then Rohtak Medical College & Hospital in Haryana and is now Pt. B. D. Sharma PGIMS Rohtak the only tertiary care and medical teaching facility in the state of Haryana.

Professional career

Singh earned recognition for his work in surgery and was appointed as Honorary Surgeon to two Presidents of India and was honored by President of India Padma Shri by in 1991.[1]

Teaching experience

Other awards

Recipient of the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award[2] in 1986 for the best piece of Surgical Research on "Newer Aetriopathologoical aspects of Urinary Calculi and means of preventing their recurrence".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009) . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf . 2013-05-10 .
  2. Web site: ASI - Association of Surgeons of India . 27 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120328060114/http://www.asiindia.org/Awards-Rangachari%20Research%20Award.php . 28 March 2012 . dead .