STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Professor (Dr) Sandeep Dogra was on Saturday appointed as Head of Department (HoD) of Microbiology Department of the Government Medical College (GMC), Jammu.
He took on from Dr Shashi S Sharma, Principal & Dean, GMC, Jammu who had held the additional charge as HOD Microbiology.
Dr Dogra is a MBBS Graduate of the GMC Jammu and has done his MD Microbiology from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra.
A passionate and decorated researcher, he was awarded membership of National Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013 and received prestigious FAIMER Fellowship (FAIMER Foundation, Philadelphia) from CMC Ludhiana.
Later, J&K State Council for Science and Technology, Dept. of Science and Technology, J&K awarded him J&K Young Scientist Award which was given by then Vice-President of India for his pioneer collaborative research work in the field of tuberculosis with University of California, Berkeley and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Dr Dogra later on worked with TB Association of India, ICMR, MH166, NCDC, Delhi, CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and IIT Jammu on various research projects involving tuberculosis, point-of-care diagnostics and anti-microbial drug resistance. With high-ranking research publications in JAMA, PLoS and Virology to name a few, he is on the editorial boards of many national and international research publications.
During COVID-19, he was given the responsibility of establishment and operationalization of first COVID-19 RT-PCR sample collection center at Isolation ward of GMCH, Jammu, second COVID-19 RT-PCR testing facility at BSL-3 lab of CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and RAT testing center at Govt. Psychiatry Hospital, Jammu.
He also operationalized ‘e-Sanjeevani’ Tele-consultation OPD services when the OPDs were closed in COVID19 and handled many administrative responsibilities pertaining to COVID19 Human Resource Engagement, Inventory Management of ICMR-VRDL, training programs with SDRF and IEC activities with DHS and NHM, Jammu.
