Current Executive Board

Dr. Tarun Ohri is a practicing cardiologist in Warsaw, NY near Niagara Falls since 1982. He is a Fellow of American College of Cardiology and Fellow of American College of Chest Physicians. He has been Chief of Cardiology and Chief of Medicine at WCCH in recent past.

His wife, Vipin, is a family physician. He has three daughters, all in Medicine. He has five grand children.

Dr. Deepta Ghate is an Associate Professor in the department of ophthalmology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She has trained with Hank Edelhauser in ocular physiology at the Emory Eye Center and with Carl Camras in glaucoma at the University of Nebraska. She is a clinician scientist and has been funded by NIH, the Nebraska Research Initiative, the IDeA CTR program, the American Glaucoma Society, Center for Health in Aging, Georgia tech CTSA among other. Her research work focuses on the impact of visual disability on activities of daily living particularly driving, visual perception and ocular disease and ocular biomarkers for CNS disorders. Her clinical work focusses on adult and pediatric glaucoma.

Dr. Rajeev Saini is an Internist in private practice in Syracuse, NY.  He is board certified in Obesity Medicine and is a fellow of American College of Physicians. He joined AIIMS in 1986 and did Internal Medicine residency at SUNY Syracuse. His wife, Charu Saini is a general dentist and has twin daughters.

Dr. Gurdesh Bedi is a Neuromuscular Neurologist who practices full time at the Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology, MN. He completed his medical schooling at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (1998-2003). He then continued his Neurology and subspecialty training at the University of Miami, FL and the Cleveland Clinic, OH. An active physician leader- he has served on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Medical Society, St Croix Health and Minnesota Sikh Society; and the Medical Economics and Practice Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. He lives in St Paul, MN with his wife Preetika, son Kabeer and daughter Meera.

2024 ANNUAL MEETING ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr. Sunil Kumar Agarwal

Dr. Ruchika Goel (Class of 1999)

Dr. Ruchika Goel serves as a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, at SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL and as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Pathology, Division of Transfusion Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. She is also Senior Medical Director, Corporate Medical Affairs at Vitalant National Office, Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Goel did her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell and New York Blood Center.  Dr. Goel is actively engaged in research in Big Data and Novel Computational Methods in Hematology and Transfusion Medicine. She also serves as an invited consultant and subject matter expert for the NIH/NHLBI funded REDS-IV-P longitudinal studies. She is the current chair of the Pediatric Subgroup of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT).

Dr. Goel has multiple accolades to her name including the AABB Fenwal Future Leader TM Scholarship Award, Paul J. Stranjford Young Investigator award by the ACLPS, BEST Collaborative Scott Murphy Lectureship, 40 under 40 award for exemplary clinical service and has also received international recognition with the ISBT Harold Gunsen fellowship and the Australian and New Zealand Blood Transfusion Society Presidential award. Dr. Goel has over 125 peer reviewed publications and book chapters to her name including key first author publications in some leading journals including JAMA, JAMA Surgery, Blood, Transfusion, Lancet Americas, and Vox Sanguinis and has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally on topics of her research focus.

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Dr.  Preet Paul Singh (Class of 2001)

Dr. Preet Paul Singh is Partner and Consultant in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Springfield Clinic. He also serves on the Board of Directors and is the Chairman of Clinical Research at Springfield Clinic. Dr. Singh completed his Internal Medicine residency at University of Alabama at Birmingham and his Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He was Chief Fellow at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Singh was an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Division of Oncology at Washington University
in St Louis prior to joining Springfield Clinic Dr. Singh is a practicing hematologist/oncologist with a focus on gastrointestinal and thoracic malignancies as well as multiple myeloma. His leadership extends to serving on NCI Multiple Myeloma Steering Committee, Heartland NCORP executive committee and Springfield Clinic Cancer Center executive committee. He has been instrumental in developing a robust oncology clinical trial program at Springfield Clinic.

Dr. Singh has received multiple prestigious awards including HONORS (Hematology Opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scientists) Award by American Society of Hematology and Conquer Cancer Foundation Merit Award by American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Singh has over 40 peer reviewed publications and book chapters to his name in some leading journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Blood, Leukemia, Annals of Oncology, Gastroenterology and Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

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                                                                        Previous Presidents

• Dr. Rajendra Tripathi                  
  Class of 1970
• Dr. Tarun Ohri                    
  Class of 1970
• Dr. Rajesh Bajaj                    
  Class of 1982
• Dr. Prem Goel                    
  Class of 1966
• Dr. Anju Ohri                     
  Class of 1966
• Dr. Jagdish K Gupta 
  Class of 1966
• Dr. Againdra Kumar Bewtra
  Class of 1963
• Dr. Narayan Verma
  Class of 1970
• Dr. Ajay Nehra, MD
  Class of 1978