Dr Gupreet Wander is national president elect API
Author(s): City Air NewsDr Gupreet Wander. Ludhiana, September 25, 2014: Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander, Chief Cardiologist Hero DMC Heart Institute has been elected as the national President elect of the Association of Physicians of India....
Ludhiana, September 25, 2014: Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander, Chief Cardiologist Hero DMC Heart Institute has been elected as the national President elect of the Association of Physicians of India. In a straight contest he won over his opponent from Calcutta by a margin of approximately 2200 votes.
Bringing rare honor to the North India Dr Wander has become the second person north of Delhi to be elected president of this body, which is the largest academic component of the post graduate physicians in medicine in the country. He has been earlier awarded the prestigious Dr B C Roy award in 2006 by the President of India and the K Saran national award in the year 2004 by Indian Medical Association.
Professor K. S. Chugh from PGIMER Chandigarh was the President of API (1992) earlier from this region. Dr Wander aims to promote and encourage research amongst physicians and students so that doctors can find own solutions to health problems that are peculiar to their patients. He feels the ultimate aim of all these professional bodies and academic activities is translating knowledge into better patient care.
API has a membership of 19,000 physicians and conducts academic activities like annual conference, brings out monthly journal of Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) which is the most popular medical journal of India. It publishes API Textbook of Medicine which is read by under graduate and post graduate students across the country. It brings medicine update and post graduate medicine books which update physicians on recent advances in medicine. It holds satellite meetings and workshops for the education of post graduate students and practicing physicians.
Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander was the organising secretary of recently held APICON 2014 Ludhiana meet which was the 69th annual conference of Association of Physicians of India. Around 7200 physicians from across the country participated in this academic meeting which was held after 50 years in the state of Punjab.
Dr Wander’s election is being hailed by the physicians of north India who feel doctors of this region will be able to participate more in the academic activities of Association of Physicians of India.
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