DY Patil medical college dean elected to ICMR

Kolhapur: Rakesh Kumar Sharma, dean of Kolhapur’s DY Patil Medical College, has been elected to the governing body of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) — top national body for deciding policies related to medical research and has played crucial role in policy making after the start of the Covid pandemic.

Sharma is among three medical faculties elected to the ICMR governing body from India. The governing body has a total of 48 members of which most of them are nominated and very few had to undergo process of election.

“I will serve as one of the members for the next three years. My work will be to provide valuable inputs in policy making. I will ensure new ideas are implemented in state through medical college of which I am dean since 2016,” Sharma said.