Bhubaneswar: Two eminent doctors, Dr Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti and Dr Hemanta Kumar Kar have joined Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS). Dr Mohanti has joined as Director, KIMS Cancer Centre and Professor & HoD, Radiation Oncology and Dr Kar as Professor & HoD, Department of Dermatology.
Dr. Mohanti has over 30 years of experience having worked as a Radiation Oncologist at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore and AIIMS, New Delhi. Having completed his MD (Radiotherapy) from PGIMER, Chandigarh, he has established the first Radiotherapy Department at the National Oncology Centre, Royal Hospital, Muscat. He has many awards and honours to his credit.
Dr Kar started his career from SCB Medical College in 1976. He has been a member of many national-level health organizations and worked in Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute, Raipur; RML Hospital, New Delhi; MPS Medical Center, New Delhi and Leprologist, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
Dr Kar has been awarded with the World Health Organisation Fellow in 1992. He was also the Coordinator of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and sexually transmitted disease study of WHO, New Delhi. He has been listed as a noteworthy dermatologist by Marquis Who’s Who.
Welcoming the doctors, Dr Achyuta Samanta, Founder KIIT & KISS, said, “I am sure KIMS in particular and people of Odisha, in general, will immensely benefit with the joining of renowned physicians like Dr Mahanti and Dr Kar.”
