Saturday, September 29, 2018

Panel constituted to appoint VC of MGR med college

Chennai:29.09.2018

The state health department has constituted a three-member search committee for the appointment of the next vice-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University. The term of the present VC Dr V Geethalakshmi will end on December 28.

The panel comprising a government nominee will have former dean of Tirunelveli Medical College Sithy Athiya Munavarah as the convenor. Senior ENT surgeon Dr Mohan Kameshwaran is the governing council nominee and former DME Dr Sembon David is the senate nominee. Applications will be called from candidates and the committee will recommend names of three people to the governor, who is also the university chancellor.

The state medical university has 22-affiliated government medical college and one government dental college besides nearly 12 self-financing medical and dental colleges. The university also affiliates AYUSH and paramedical colleges. The university’s application to the state for constituent college is still pending. A constituent college will make the varsity eligible for applying to national-level ranking system. TNN

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